Archive for the ‘Mac OS X’ Category

Disabling Spotlight in OS X Leopard for the removable drives

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

I have finally got tired with OS X Leopard’s Spotlight. It is a great tool to quickly find the documents and programs but it is so annoying when it comes to the external disks! I have a 500Gb USB disk that I use for backups. USB is not so fast but once I connect it, [...]

Migrating Zaurus AddressBook database to OS X Address Book

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

This is the second article about the data migration from Sharp Zaurus to Nokia N800. This time it is about the PIM information, particularly the Address Book contents. Actually you can do it using the desktop software, but in my case I did not have this option. Zaurus does not synchronize with Mac and, in [...]

Backing up MacBook With RSync

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

Once I have bought a MacBook and accumulated certain amount of information, I have realized that it may be a good idea to organize the backups. Not all the modern hard disks are as reliable as they used to be And burning the DVDs is not a good idea, they are too small.

So, I [...]