Connect your Xbox to the Internet using your Mac

Saturday, April 4th, 2009

Problem: Many instructions that I have found to connect your Xbox to the Internet using your Mac (with Airport and Ethernet) did not work for me.  I experienced an interesting problem while following these other instructions, and managed to find a solution. Quick Solution: Follow other instructions on the Internet, but make sure that your Mac's ...


Macintosh iWork ’08 Numbers is a Real Pain

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

Usually I post articles that describe how to get around a problem that I had, but this is just about how frustrated I am with Apple's Numbers, part of the iWork '08 suite. Background I use a Mac because it is much more stable than Windows.  Also, the open source community is well plugged into working with ...


Moving Your Mac Leopard Time Machine to a New Drive

Monday, February 18th, 2008 Select highest parent

I recently upgraded to a 1 Terabyte external hard drive and wanted to move my Time Machine backups to that drive (and start using this new drive for Time Machine). This is how I did it. Quick Solution: Use Disk Utility to Restore your old drive to your new drive, then tell Time Machine that ...


Fix the GlowWorm Blue Screen of Death/No Boot/No User Login Window

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 Enabled Leopard Firewall

This goes over my experience with GlowWorm.app causing a boot error in Mac OS 10.5.1 Leopard, and what I did that fixed it. Symptoms You just installed GlowWorm.app Your computer will not boot (or not reach the login window, but the mouse appears) in normal mode You can boot into safe mode You can boot into single user mode The quick ...