Access NTFS Volumes On Your Mac
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Personal, Terabyte home on 06. Aug, 2009 | View Comments
Most Mac switchers still have some Windows NTFS-formatted drives around. Maybe it’s an external USB disk. Or maybe you’re using Boot Camp. Whatever the reason, Mac users often want to access NTFS volumes within OS X. There are two popular ways to accomplish this:
Use the excellent and free NTFS-3G driver
Buy Paragon Software’s Paragon NTFS
OS X Custom Drive Icons 2: Boot Camp and NTFS
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Virtual Storage on 03. Sep, 2008 | View Comments
In my last post, I discussed the simple but confusing steps required to add custom icons to Mac OS X drives. I mentioned that there were some tricks to getting custom icons on some drives, however, including Boot Camp and NTFS disks. This week, I’ll show how to customize these as well.
There are two core [...]
Vista, OS X Boot Time Compared
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Personal, Terabyte home on 14. Aug, 2008 | View Comments
I recently mentioned how impressed I was with the speed of my MacBook, even when running Windows in Boot Camp. Of course, this was a subjective feeling, so I decided to try timing some events to see if the clock agreed with my brain. Sure enough, the Mac is faster than my Dell XPS M1330 [...]
Switch Day 58: Ten Pros and Cons of the MacBook Pro
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Personal, Terabyte home on 11. Aug, 2008 | View Comments
I’ve now been a Mac user for two months. Since I switched primarily to get access to Apple’s excellent hardware, I thought I would issue an update on my observations about it at this point. I should note that I’m limiting this post to the hardware (maybe I’ll cover OS X some other time), and [...]
Upgraded! 320 GB in a MacBook Pro!
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Personal, Terabyte home, Virtual Storage on 25. Jun, 2008 | View Comments
I know I’m not the first to do this, but it does make me chuckle to have upgraded a brand new machine less than a week after buying it. That’s right, my brand new MacBook Pro now has 4 GB of RAM and a massive 320 GB of disk space. If you’re thinking of upgrading your [...]
Command and Control: The Clash of Keyboards
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Computer history, Terabyte home on 17. Jun, 2008 | View Comments
The lowly computer keyboard is so ubiquitous that it can seem unchanging, but nothing could be further from the truth. It is one of the most important components of any system, and has survived all assaults by new technologies from the mouse to the pen to the microphone, yet its evolution is marked by legacy [...]
Switch Day 1: This Mac is Hot!
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Personal, Terabyte home, Virtual Storage on 14. Jun, 2008 | View Comments
So the Mac has joined my replacement work Dell – two new computers in two days! Here are my first thoughts on the hardware:
This post is part of my series focused on switching from PC to Mac.
How To Buy Discount Apple Computers
Got Some AppleCare For Cheap
Switch! or How the Mac (Finally) Won Me Over
Switch Day [...]
