Category Archives: MacOS X

Big fat hard drive in a 700 MHz G4 iMac

Posted on February 18, 2008 by blogmywiki

Conventional wisdom says that any G4 iMac slower than 1 GHz cannot work with a hard drive bigger than 120 GB. But they were selling 320GB IDE drives in Maplin for only £59.99 and it seemed silly to pay ten … Continue reading →

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How to put movies on a Nintendo DS using a Mac

Posted on November 19, 2007 by blogmywiki

Memo to self, type post – please ignore if you don’t have a Mac and a Nintendo DS… You will need: A Mac running OS X A Nintendo DS or DS Lite An M3 card or similar to run Moonshell … Continue reading →

Posted in children, computers, gaming, MacOS X, Nintendo DS | 10 Comments

Why Your Neighbour’s WiFi security is so poor

Posted on May 16, 2007 by blogmywiki

I think I might now know why there are so many unsecured wireless computer networks around. I could never understand this, it seems so stupid to leave your network wide open. Security is easy enough to set up with MacOS … Continue reading →

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Innocence lost

Posted on February 26, 2007 by blogmywiki

With a slightly heavy heart I’ve had to install parental controls on the computer in the back room – which meant upgrading the G3 Tower of Power from MacOS 10.3 to 10.4 (Tiger). The boys had been looking at some … Continue reading →

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Humax PVR meets Mac

Posted on December 28, 2006 by blogmywiki

They’re stupidly named – nowt personal about a box that sits in the living room and which we fight over control of… but I finally gave in and bought a ‘Personal Video Recorder’. Torn between the Topfield and the Humax, … Continue reading →

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