I’ve been using the NTFS-3G driver myself for quite some time. It works as advertised: Install it and you can read and write to NTFS-formatted drives with ease. These drives are integrated right into the Finder, appearing just like Mac-standard HFS+ disks. This is the method I used to assign custom drive icon for my Boot Camp volume and USB drives, for example.
OS X Custom Drive Icons 2: Boot Camp and NTFS
September 3, 2008 By 4 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 [...]
Vista, OS X Boot Time Compared
August 14, 2008 By 4 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 [...]
Upgraded! 320 GB in a MacBook Pro!
June 25, 2008 By 10 Comments
Command and Control: The Clash of Keyboards
June 17, 2008 By 5 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!
June 14, 2008 By 3 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) [...]
