Wednesday, February 18, 2009

How to upgrade the internal Time Capsule Hard Disk

Just for a point of reference when you might need to upgrade the Time
Capsule hard disk, here are some clear instructions and photos of the
process at http://www.hardmac.com/articles/79/

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Sync bookmarks across Safari, Firefox and IE!


What a day!
Not only does Google threaten MobileMe's usefulness by having Push Contacts and Calendar.  But now also the Bookmarks syncing that MM does so well is now sideswiped by Foxmarks, who has recently updated its software to allow Bookmarks to sync across Safari, Firefox and IE!  It even has a web-based management system that users can edit directly.
You need to download and install the plug-ins for each browser, and apparently Uncle Walt says the IE is still a Beta and quite flakey.  

For iPhone, there is only a web-based optimized page but no true synchronisation for the handset yet.  

http://thenextweb.com/2009/02/07/sync-bookmarks-firefox-safari-foxmarks/

Damn, looks like I'll be saying goodbye to my mac.com address alot sooner than I thought!!!



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Google Sync Beta - Exchange for the iPhone


Today, Google unveiled the Google Sync Beta, which licenced the Microsoft ActiveSync software to allow push contacts and calendars for Google users.
This works for both iPhone/iPod Touch devices as well as WinMob6 devices.  

Be warned that if already using MobileMe, this will erase all data!  And since MM is push technology too, it could result in ALL data being deleted from everywhere.
Recommend that you backup or archive the Address Book first, and then disable MobileMe from the iPhone.

Here are Google's instructions:

http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=138740&topic=14252




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Thursday, February 5, 2009

Changing schedule of Time Machine backups

Here's a free utility to change the hourly backups of Time Machine, to something more useful for ordinary folks (ie. twice a day, daily, or weekly)
http://www.macworld.com/article/133938/2008/06/timemachineeditor13.html
http://timesoftware.free.fr/timemachineeditor/

Tuesday, February 3, 2009