Maculous > OS X

I recently bought the HDHomeRun network HDTV tuner made by Silicon Dust. This product has two HDTV tuners onboard, each is capable of receiving QAM unencrypted cable TV high definition channels or ATSC broadcast high definition channels. I have one tuner connected to our local CATV and the other to an indoor HDTV antenna. [...]

To get started with our new blog we have imported a few posts from our sister site Macs Are Great.
We want to let people know how great it is using a Mac, how much less hassle is involved, and how great the things you can do really are.
Enjoy Maculous, we will!
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For the last ten years of my career in corporate America I used Adobe nee Macromedia Dreamweaver for a living. It sucked. There is not a webserver with enough storage capacity for me to list all of the things I hate about Dreamweaver, but I knew how to use it, and the support it offered [...]

Last year we expanded our web operations and invested in a 3.0GHz 8-core Mac Pro. The machine has performed flawlessly and met all of my expectations up until it was upgraded to Leopard. Apparently Leopard places higher demands on the video card, and as a result the fan on the original ATI X1900 [...]

One of the most successful of my various websites is one for people with celiac disease, the Sensible Celiac. In case you did not know, celiac disease is an inherited autoimmune disorder that causes the immune system to attack the small intestine when a person eats wheat, rye or barley. I’ve got it. [...]

For years we have been using SuperDuper to create bootable clone backups of all of our Macs. Each Mac has its own external hard drive reserved for backups, and in the event of a massive failure we can be back up and running quickly. The author of SuperDuper is hard at work on a Leopard [...]

I’ve been anxiously awaiting Leopard, and over the weekend I upgraded 3 of my computers, a 20″ CoreDuo iMac, a 2.2GHz Macbook Pro, and my super mega 8-core Mac Pro. Each upgrade went very smoothly, and so far I have not found any installed applications that no longer work. I was looking forward [...]

In response to user feedback received in email, we have designed and programmed a pair of simple Automator scripts into a package we call JPEG Consolidator. There are two versions, one will copy all of the files it finds, and the other will move files.
By default these scripts will search a specified path recursively for [...]

Wal*Mart has begun to offer music downloads, but if you are using Mac OS X you’ll have to downgrade to the world’s least secure operating system first.
Using either Camino or Safari, try accessing the music downloads page at WalMart.com, and you’ll get this idiotic error message.
“We’re sorry, your operating system is incompatible. To provide the [...]

My lovely new MacBook Pro arrived today, and I took some photos as I unpacked it and used Target Disk Mode to transfer files from my MacBook.
Later I installed Parallels and used Parallels Transporter to import my old Sony VAIO VGN-S170 Windows XP notebook. In the course of just a few hours I have a [...]

Although I’ve never regretted switching from MS Wormware to OS X a few years ago, there are a few things that bother me about life in the Mac world. One of them is the reliability and speed of the Apple default web browser, Safari. I keep about 6 or 7 browser windows open all [...]

Besides having Parallels Desktop for Mac on my Intel iMac, I also have an installation of Windows XP created using Apple’s Boot Camp. Because of the famously draconian software validation practices used by the Evil Empire, I’ve only been able to use my Windows XP installation via Boot Camp. I’ve been using Windows 2000 up [...]

Recently we wrote about a cordless Skype phone, but here is an even better solution that we setup on an Intel CoreDuo iMac under OS X version 10.4.8. A company named Von-Phone offers a great selection of Skype compatible hardware, and they have a special page that lists Mac Skype stuff. Among the items they [...]

Woo hoo! Apple has released an airline power adapter with their patented MagSafe connector for use with Macbook and Macbook Pro notebooks. The description of the new product on the Apple website indicates that it does not charge your battery, but it does power your notebook. This is great news for those of us [...]