On paper, Drobo is brilliant. It's a RAID-like system for data storage, without the limitations of conventional RAID systems. Particularly attractive is that you can mix and match drives of any sizes at any time -- if you run out of space, you can go ahead and pop in a larger drive without even ...
FileMaker Pro: It Still Exists (for Mac, iPhone, iPad and Windows)
We recently checked out FileMaker Pro 12, because we wanted to use the Mac to create a customized, shared, web-published application that didn't require a ton of cost or development time. What I discovered was that what's old is new. FileMaker 12 is, in fundamental ways, not significantly different ...
We like being clever (how to sync Palm OS on a Mac or PC)
While most of us have moved on from our PDAs and smartphones of yesteryear, some of our clients love a specific device, and we consider it our job to figure out a way to let them use it if that's what they want to do. We have a client who still uses a Palm organizer, because its calendar view ...
Raspberry Pi right now!
A computer I sort of think of as the Apple II of today is the Raspberry Pi, a tiny $35 computer designed for education. It's just...inspiring and fun. If you've got a Pi, you can check out this stuff I've made for it. (Some of these can actually be useful for non-Pi purposes too, if you know what ...
Create or Update a Lion or Mountain Lion Recovery Partition
Hooray! brunerd has written an easy to use utility that will create a Lion or Mountain Lion Recovery partition if you don't have one (for example, if you performed a full-system Time Machine restore to a brand new drive). It will also update the Recovery partition to the current version of OS X, ...
Sandbox, or cage?
One of the requirements of all apps in the Mac App Store is that they "play in their own sandbox," meaning that, like iPhone/iPad apps, they can't interact with other applications or the larger operating system outside themselves. While this might be fine for many games and productivity ...