Tag Archives: osx

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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