When you install Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, or buy a current Mac, one of the things that happens is that 650 MB of your drive space is set aside into a "recovery partition". You can use command-R, or the option key, during startup and your Mac will be able to start from there. The Recovery Partition is a ...
Apple Mail, IMAP, and special folders
Note: everything below can be generally applied to most any IMAP mail application, including Outlook, Thunderbird, and the version of Mail included in iOS. Only the details vary. Unfortunately, no standards exist as to what IMAP special folders should be called, so every mail host and IMAP client ...
Snow Leopard as guest in a virtual machine, part two
Update: The below was tested on Parallels Desktop 6. Commenters have reported that it doesn't work on Parallels Desktop 7, which is indeed a drag. When I have some time I'll take a closer look. Yesterday, I explained how to install Snow Leopard as a guest in Parallels (or presumably another ...
Snow Leopard as a Parallels/VMWare/VirtualBox guest OS
Update: The below was tested on Parallels Desktop 6. Commenters have reported that it doesn't work on Parallels Desktop 7. I'll be taking a closer look at some point. One bit of under-the-radar good news in Lion is that Apple has changed the licensing terms of their End User License Agreement: they ...
Apple II Conference
Ivan still loves his Apple II, which he started using in the late 1980s. He attends an Apple II conference every year. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6GC2tnuLt4&feature=channel_video_title[/youtube] Transcript of the video: Believe it or not, my history with Apple products goes back ...
MacBook Air 2011: random notes
Mostly, I like the new MBA 2011 a lot. But two minor nags about this new machine versus its predecessor: - It seemed, in the hand, ever so slightly heavier, so I looked at the specs, and indeed it's 2.38 lbs, as opposed to the 2010 model which was 2.30 lbs. You wouldn't think 0.08 lbs (a 3.4% ...