Lately I've been looking for a utility to backup my Mac automatically to a network share - which is actually on a PC. Of course, I don't actually like buying software, so I was hunting for something with the 'free backup utility' phrase associated with it ;).

I wanted to write a quick post to tell the world of what has been one of the best purchases I've made in a very long time. In fact, as far as technology goes, I'd say this gadget is second only to my Macbook in terms of how useful it has been!
Basically, I was looking [...]

One of Mac's slogans is "it just works". Well, this week I've found an exception to that. It was all running just fine, then I decided to upgrade to Macromedia/Adobe Flash 9 on my new(ish) MacBook. The installation appears to have worked just fine. but when I tun on my browser, it's obvious that it [...]

So I've been looking around for ways to automate a regular backup on my Macbook to my server, which is a PC. I found some free software (which I'll blog about later), mounted the network path as a drive, and ran the backup.
But if I realized that if I want to automate it, I'll have [...]

I recently downloaded a Spanish movie with English subtitles. When I opened the movie .avi file, the subtitles didn't appear. It turns out that they are loaded from a separate .srt file.
I did some digging, and found the information I needed in a forum. To view .srt files on a Mac, you need to [...]