I recently bought a brand-new MacBook Pro Retina 13″ to replace my five-year-old 15″ MacBook Pro. When I turned on the new computer I dutifully ran Migration Assistant and copied all my old stuff over to the new computer. That migration included stuff that went back to my first Mac, the iBook I bought in …
Solid, Man, Solid
I take my MacBook Pro pretty much everywhere. And by that I mean it comes with me to the office every day as well as the occasional trip to a WiFi spot, and it contains most of my important data, photos, music, etc. The mobility is great, but I’ve grown increasingly concerned about the fact …
Why The Sticker Came Off My Car
I no longer have an Apple sticker on my car window. I have not become an Apple Hater: my current computer is a MacBook Pro, the latest in a long line of Apple notebooks I’ve owned over the years. I carry an iPod Touch with me, and there are lots of things with Apple logos …
What’s Wrong With This Picture?
There’s an ad running on TV for a service called “Finally Fast” which claims to clean and speed up your PC. Sure, there’s money to be made selling this sort of this thing, but I have to question the integrity of a company who pitches a product that doesn’t even run on the computers shown …
Two Mac Tales
This week’s update is all about the techie stuff, both having to do with Macs, and both having to do with hard drives. Tale #1: The Beeping MacBook I awoke the other morning to a MacBook that was beeping intermittently. The system seemed to be operating just fine, but every so often I’d get an …
Leopard Upgrade Complete
I finished upgrading my MacBook to Leopard last weekend. In all, it was a fairly easy process: I backed the machine up to my external Firewire drive using SuperDuper, formatted the machine’s hard drive, and installed the OS from the Leopard disk. Once the installation was complete, I used Apple’s built-in Migration Assistant to bring …
Adventures in Upgrading to Leopard: News Item
Shirt Pocket software just announced the availability of SuperDuper! 2.5, which is Leopard-compatible. This is the biggest of my show-stopper apps– I wouldn’t upgrade to Leopard without this excellent backup utility, and now that it’s here, the party can begin. 🙂 I’ll have a full report in a few days.
Adventures in Upgrading to Leopard, Part Deux
My first wave of tests with Leopard is complete, and so far things have proven pretty successful, with one unhappy exception. The following apps work fine, according to my initial set of tests. I did not do any heavy-duty operations with each program, but the basics seem to work. All versions tested were the latest, …
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Adventures in Upgrading to Leopard, Part 1
Apple’s new operating system, MacOS X 10.5 Leopard, was released this past October. Since my MacBook is my primary machine, I decided to step very carefully into the Leopard world. I didn’t want to find out after upgrading that one (or more) of my critical applications didn’t work. The Mac blogs, forums, and podcasts I …
Samsung ML-1430 Printer Drivers
I bought this small laser printer at Sam’s Club a number of years ago (for almost nothing) and it was a real workhorse until it finally died in January of 2007. I recently heard from a brand-new Mac user who has this printer and he told me Samsung no longer has the drivers for this …