Category: Macintosh

Slow Spotlight searches?

Are you having an issue with Spotlight searches taking an extremely long time for any results to appear? Do you see anything similar in your console log? Nov 7 11:52:01 Mac-Pro-2009 [0x0-0x25025].com.apple.Preview[374]: ================= Nov 7 11:52:01 Mac-Pro-2009 [0x0-0x25025].com.apple.Preview[374]: ERROR: SKIndexTermChars pref returned nil string – using default Nov 7 11:52:01 Mac-Pro-2009 [0x0-0x25025].com.apple.Preview[374]: (/SourceCache/Preview/Preview-504.1/Sources/PVSearchKitUtils.m:161 PVCleanSKQuery) Nov […]

Free Mac anti-virus – Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac

Sophos is now offering free copies of it’s anti-virus software, to Macintosh users… Technical Specifications are as follows: Mac with Intel or PowerPC processor 256 MB of memory 150 MB of available disk space Mac with OSX 10.4 (Tiger), 10.5 (Leopard) or 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Supports All Apple Mac hardware including iMac, MacBook, MacBook Pro […]

Can you edit Evernote externally?

Evernote is fine, but its text editor is strange and not good for storing code snippets. The fact that is allows HTML but can only manipulate a subset of HTML is a bit frustrating. Is there any way to edit Evernote  snippets outside of Evernote? My first read thru suggests this: Copy and Paste the Evernote text into TextEdit, or another […]

Backing up virtual machines with Time Machine

One of the improvements in Parallels v6 is better support for Time Machine, if you are using a Disk Image based backup (eg. Not using a Boot Camp Partition).  Sadly, there doesn’t appear to be any backup improvements for us Boot Camp users… According to Parallels: One of the ways to back up your virtual […]

Prediction Time, Missing Sync for Windows System 7 Phone?

Microsoft has been making alot of noise lately about how they will be supplying software to allow Windows System 7 System Phones will support Macintosh Syncing.  Well, I don’t want to look a gift horse in the mouth, but Microsoft has promised quite a bit in the past, and rarely delivers everything they promise. Microsoft […]

Winclone discontinued, again?

The utility Winclone has been invaluable to me, it easily backups and restores Windows Boot Camp partitions….  But the developer has had some issues updating it to work with Windows 7…. A while back, he discontinued updating Winclone, and was convinced by the users to not discontinue the application…  But, it appears that the author […]

Steam Updates….

A New Steam update has hit the streets, included in it is full support for the Apple Snow Leopard Graphics update…  So, hopefully a nice burst in video speed… A Steam client update is now available. To apply the update, click the File menu inside of Steam and then select “Check for Steam Client Updates…”. […]