In my last post I compared several online backup services and decided that Crashplan was my personal winner when looking at the features and the price. In the following weeks a couple of people started to complain about the slow transfer rates to their backup servers. I also tested the upload speeds from several networks [...]
Backups, the everlasting topic. Years after several hard drive crashes, after manual backups and semi automatic backups I’m still thinking about the right solution. Current Setup Currently I’m using an USB / SATA adaptor to connect various hard drives without enclosure to my computer to run Time Machine semi automatic backups. With OS X 10.7 [...]
On OS X there are these moments when Finder tells you that the trash cannot be emptied or that a disk can not be unmounted because some files in/on them are still being used. When emptying the trash, Finder even tells you about the files in question but not about the app that is accessing [...]
I just got a new MacBook Pro from my current employer and since I got it without an SSD I bought the Intel 510 250GB and installed it. Everything worked smoothly after the first boot. However, as @denis2342 pointed out, there are a few extra steps to make it run at full speed and performance. [...]
For years I’ve been searching for a keyboard shortcut that would instantly lock my screen / desktop. I’ve seen this on Linux window managers and something like this probably exists on every major operating system. My current workaround was to open Keychain.app, enable the menu bar icon in the preferences and click each time on [...]