Posted: March 5th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Apple Terminal, Disk Utility, Mac OS X, MacBook, MacBook Pro | No Comments »
Ask TUAW: File ownership and permissions, converting FLV and OGG, extra displays, and more on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
Topics: Apple Terminal, Disk Utility, Mac OS X, MacBook, MacBook Pro
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“Filed under: Features , Troubleshooting , Ask TUAW Welcome back to Ask TUAW , our weekly troubleshooting Q&A column. This week we have questions about changing file ownership and permissions, adding two external displays to a MacBook Pro,…” |
Posted: January 28th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Boot Camp, Disk Utility, ITunes, Mac OS X, Mac OS X v10.4, MacBook, MacBook Pro | No Comments »
Ask TUAW: Prepping a Mac for transfer, adding words to spell check, updating Boot Camp, and more on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
Topics: Mac OS X, Mac OS X v10.4, MacBook Pro, ITunes, Boot Camp, MacBook, Disk Utility
| “Filed under: Features, Troubleshooting, Ask TUAWWelcome back to Ask TUAW, our weekly troubleshooting Q&A column. This week we’ve got questions about preparing a Mac that you’re transferring to a new owner, updating Boot Camp, adding words to the…” |
Posted: January 19th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Automator, Disk Utility, HFS Plus, ITunes, Mac OS X, MacBook, MacBook Pro | No Comments »
Ask TUAW: Automatic file sorting, Disk Utility, iPod battery replacement, and more on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
Topics: Disk Utility, Mac OS X, HFS Plus, MacBook Pro, MacBook, ITunes, Automator
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“Filed under: Features, Troubleshooting, Ask TUAWWelcome back to Ask TUAW, our weekly troubleshooting Q&A column. This week we’ve got questions about automatically sorting downloaded files, using Disk Utility to change partitions and format…” |
Posted: December 16th, 2009 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Disk Utility, MacBook, MacBook Pro | No Comments »
Why is there a progress bar when my Mac is starting up? on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
Topics: MacBook, MacBook Pro, Disk Utility
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“Filed under: Odds and ends, TUAW TipsUpdate: As several of our commenters pointed out, the OS is probably running the fsck utility in the background to repair directory problems, while showing the progress bar to the end user so they know there’s…” |
Posted: December 10th, 2009 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Boot Camp, Disk Utility, Mac OS X, MacBook, MacBook Pro | No Comments »
10.6: Create a shared Boot Camp/OS X encrypted partition on MacOSXHints.com
Topics: MacBook Pro, Boot Camp, MacBook, Disk Utility, Mac OS X
| “This hint describes how to create an extra, encrypted FAT-32 partition on a MacBook Pro running Boot Camp with Snow Leopard and Windows 7 already in place. This partition can be accessed with read/write permissions from both the OS X and Windows side…” |
Posted: October 22nd, 2009 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Boot Camp, Disk Utility, Mac OS X, MacBook | No Comments »
How to Survive Boot Camp (and Run Win 7 on a Mac) [How To] on Gizmodo
Topics: MacBook, Boot Camp, Mac OS X, Disk Utility
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“Windows 7 and Snow Leopard are great. And cheap. Boot Camp’s the free, official way to run them both natively on one machine. It’s easy to setup, and just works, except when it doesn’t. Here’s how to survive Boot Camp. Boot Camp, to be clear, is…” |
Posted: October 5th, 2009 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Disk Utility, MacBook, MacBook Pro | No Comments »
10.6: Resolve a non-usable disk during 10.6 upgrade on MacOSXHints.com
Topics: MacBook Pro, MacBook, Disk Utility
| “While attempting to upgrade my MacBook Pro to 10.6, I received the error message “this disk cannot be used to start up your computer.” I only have one disk and one volume, so that disk was my only choice. I tried running Disk Utility to repair the…” |
Posted: September 5th, 2009 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Disk Utility, Mac OS X, MacBook, MacBook Air | No Comments »
Upgrading Your Mac To Snow Leopard Using Your USB drive on MakeUseOf.com
Topics: Mac OS X, MacBook Air, MacBook, Disk Utility
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“The latest Mac OS X – version 10.6 – was released to the public on August 28. Mac users who pre-ordered Snow Leopard should already have their copy delivered and surely have upgraded their Mac to Leopard by now. The Mac communities’…” |
Posted: September 3rd, 2009 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: DDR2 SDRAM, Disk Utility, GDDR3, Intel 80386, Intel Core, Intel Core 2, Mac OS X, MacBook, MacBook Pro | No Comments »
How to Build a Hackintosh with Snow Leopard, Start to Finish [How To] on Lifehacker
Topics: Mac OS X, MacBook Pro, Intel 80386, Intel Core 2, MacBook, Disk Utility, Intel Core, GDDR3, DDR2 SDRAM
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“Two years ago, I detailed how to build a Hackintosh for under $800—then covered how to do the same with less hacking. Now that Snow Leopard’s out, we’re revisiting the Hackintosh, building a Hack Pro from scratch for roughly $900. For folks…” |
Posted: April 27th, 2009 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Disk Utility, MacBook, MacBook Air, Target Disk Mode | No Comments »
TUAW Tip: Wipe down an old Mac with Target Disk Mode on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
Topics: MacBook, MacBook Air, Disk Utility, Target Disk Mode
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“Filed under: Hardware, Software, How-tos, TUAW TipsA reader recently contacted us with a question regarding her decision to recycle an older iMac computer. She wanted to know how she could clear/reformat the hard drive, but didn’t have the disks that…” |
