I’ve used Netopia’s Timbuktu for almost 10-years to remotely control both Macs and PCs. It wasn’t perfect, but it worked well enough, was easy to set-up, and delivered decent performance. Over the years, the program has started to show its age and updates have been far and few between. The last update, over a year [...]

Even though most people look to Firefox as the end-all be-all for browsing the web, I’ve stuck with Safari. It’s fast and most importantly, the keystroke short-cuts are built-in and intuitive. There might be an add-on now, but I had to use something like Quickeys in order to even manouver within Firefox.
Other people swear by software [...]

I’ve had an ongoing saga of trying Windows emulation on my MacBook with only failures to report. By far, the best result has been with Boot Camp, but that requires a restart of the machine.
I’m happy to report that after giving Parallels 4.0 a spin, it actually works! It suspends and resumes without errors. No [...]

A few weeks ago I flushed Windows emulation on the Mac. VMWare just released a new version of their Fusion emulator. I thought their version 1.0 software sucked, so how is version 2.0? Still sucks. 
Because I pitched emulation, I have a Boot Camp partition. Fusion recognizes the partition and can import one instead of having [...]

If there is one thing I’m anal about, it is MP3 tags. I have spent days making sure the tags on my 8000+ song collection are as complete as possible. At first I thought adding cover art was a waste of space, but I’ve gone ahead and embedded covers when they can be found.
I’ve tried [...]

Why does GimmieSomeTune have to suck? It does everything I want in an iTunes controller, but it lags all the time. I’ve looked for alternative programs, but they either don’t do as much or they suck even worse than GimmieSomeTune. The latest was TotalTunes Control. Not bad, but it wastes too screen real estate.
Maybe a [...]

I want to use the MythTV as a headless box, if you don’t count the TV. The best way to do that is using a remote client like VNC. For the Mac, Chicken of the VNC works great. It gives you a remote GUI so it is like having the MythTV box right on my [...]