Speeding up your Time Machine backups
Okay, this has to be the weirdest trick I’ve ever posted. Usually I’m a happy Mac user, but sometimes I don’t understand why things are so slo...
Tag: OS X
Time Machine issue: not able to activate time machine
What if you always use OS X Time Machine for your backups and find out that restoring doesn’t work as you hoped? I found out recently that the “Acti...
Format an SD Card to FAT32 in OS X
If you want to format an SD Card to FAT32, and you can only select FAT16 (among other choices) in Disk Utility, issue this command from the command line: First ...
Enabling wget in OS X
Although Mac OS X has a lot of UNIX commands, wget is not one of them. The alternative command curl is vey powerful, but many UNIX scripts rely on wget. Enablin...
Create a DIY dynamic DNS service, for free
I’m one of the unlucky people with a provider who doesn’t provide a static IP address. One solution would be to subscribe to a Dynamic DNS (or DDNS)...
Tuning The Time Machine
OS X Time machine tips and tricks.
installing Oracle SQL Developer on OS X Lion/Mountain Lion
Last week I installed OS X Lion, which was great fun. I’m not going to say it is revolutionary, but it certainly has some nice improvements. One particula...
creating an iso from a disk in OS X
When you quickly want to create an ISO image from a CD or DVD disk, simply do the following: insert the disk in your optical drive (yeah, I know this is obvious...
Macheist mania
Now that I discovered the site, the hype is probably already over it’s top. But I find it intriguing. You buy a bundle of Mac OS X applications with a hug...