Turn Any NAS Drive Into A Time Machine Drive
Time Machine is a great built-in feature in OS X. When Apple first announced that they would be offering the ability to backup and restore your files and system with the ease of use that we have come to know and love from Apple I was ecstatic. Then I found out that you had to [...]
DIY: Auto Tracking Sentry Gun
Every wanted to build you very own auto tracking sentry gun? No? Me either, but now that I take a look at it I do want to build one. Not one that fires bullets or anything, but one that would have a water gun on it to keep people out of my office. If you’re [...]
AppleTV Gets A Genius
Last night Apple rolled out a security update for it’s AppleTV. According to Apple, this update fixes a bug in the unit that could allow a “maliciously crafter movie file to lead to an unexpected termination of arbitrary code execution”. Doesn’t sound good at all for all the Apple TV owners, all 6 of us. [...]
Leopard Secrets
Is that genius bar annoying the crap out of you? Kill it with secrets. Secrets is a preference pane you add to Leopard that allows you to play around with all sorts of options that Apple never wanted you to play with. Did you know that you can enable an expert mode in Disk Utility [...]
Save A Genius Playlist
One of the neat new features in iTunes 8 is the “Genius” playlist builder. Basically, it creates playlists from the songs in your library or from the iTunes store. What’s the big deal with that you ask? Well, it does this based on a track you select from your library. So, in short, you pick [...]
Apple Sept 08 Event: Wrap Up
Now that the “Let’s Rock” even has come and gone, let’s take a look at what Apple has brought into our laps. HD TV Shows Right off the bat Steve announced the arrival of HD TV shows to the iTunes store. The shows will cost you $2.99 a pop (instead of the $1.99 you pay [...]
LG’s Prada II
The Boy Genius Report has a live shot of what might be the next product coming from the LG/PRADA partnership. Named the Prada II and borrowing much of it’s looks from it’s predecessor, the original Prada phone, nothing much more is known about this sidekick/iphone looking hybrid. As soon as we get wind of any [...]
Rumour: Blackberry Pearl 2
Boy Genius Report is reporting that the new Blackberry Pearl 2 will be rolling out to Sprint around the US Thanksgiving. The new Blackberry will have integrated GPS but will lack the WiFi most people were hoping for. A CDMA version of the Curve is also planned for release some time during the first quarter [...]
