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Migrate Apple Time Capsules

Posted on January 14, 2012 by martijn

Just replaced my Apple Time Capsule with a newer one. Here’s what I found to be the best approach in moving data and time-machine backups to the new unit. Hook-up your Mac to an ethernet-port of the old time-capsule. You … Continue reading →

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Apple FileVault 2 on older Mac’s with SSD

Posted on October 20, 2011 by martijn

Apple’s FileVault2 is a valuable addition to OS X Lion. It offers full disk-encryption which I find to be something mandatory on notebooks these days. On ‘newer’ Apple MacBooks, say since the Intel i5 and i7 architecture, FileVault 2 has … Continue reading →

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TotalTerminal

Posted on August 2, 2011 by martijn

A small gem for OS X! TotalTerminal brings terminal access trough a hot-key. TotalTerminal is a plugin for Terminal.app. It provides a persistent “Visor Window”  which slides up or down when you press a hot-key. Website: http://totalterminal.binaryage.com/

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PL2303 Serial-USB on OSX Lion

Posted on July 24, 2011 by martijn

Here’s a way to get you PL2303-based Serial-USB adapter working with OS X Lion (10.7). Based on the osx-pl2303 project on github, I’ve built a kernel extension that works with OS X Lion. You can grab the kext file here … Continue reading →

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SparkleShare .. promising

Posted on March 1, 2011 by martijn

Back in the days, before cloud-based services like Dropbox or iDisk, I used to be a big-time user of iFolder. Desktop file-sync for all kinds of platforms with central versioned storage complete in your own control. Too bad current iFolder … Continue reading →

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MobileMe calendar in Evolution

Posted on December 30, 2010 by martijn

Now that the new MobileMe Calendar is based on the iCalendar and CalDAV
standards it becomes a lot easier to access your MobileMe Calendar trough third-party (non-Apple) calendaring tools. For now, we’ll show how to setup the calendar in Evolution, a common e-mail and calendar client on Linux and Unix desktops Continue reading →

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Apple AFP filesharing on FreeBSD

Posted on September 28, 2010 by martijn

On a Mac and have some FreeBSD file-servers around the house of office? Open your file-servers up to easy and fast access via OS X Finder. How? The method is Apple’s native Apple Filing Protocol (AFP), with a bit of … Continue reading →

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