2 minutes EDIT on 02/16/2011 – It works again! 10.6.6. Seems the bug was ironed out on 10.6.6. Thanks all who reported it. I didn’t have the chance to test it out on a Win7 machine (as I was fresh out of one). EDIT on 12/09/2010 – As Clinton pointed out in the comments below, a partition … →

2 minutes There has been a lot of debate over the lack of bandwidth monitor apps for OSX. Many will point the clueless reader to iStat Menus, and other such pointless apps, which don’t maintain the amount of data transferred, after a reboot. For Windows there’s the inimitable DuMeter, but nothing did I know came close to … →

5 minutes I recently purchased a Panasonic HDC-SD600 camcorder – featuring full HD 1080p recording options and OIS to boot. While I cannot praise the camera enough, the workflow for editing an AVCHD file on a Mac leaves something to be desired. The fact remains that even after nearly four years of widespread AVCHD use, there are … →

3 minutes O Starcraft II, the brainchild of Blizzard Entertainment, why doest thou suffer so under Mac OSX? I tried cajoling, I tried upgrades, and I tried updates, all to no avail. Mac fanatics and die-hards at Mac oriented forums will castigate me for this, but it is true, Mac OSX is simply not conducive to gaming, … →

< 1 minute It took me some time, but after a lot of work and sweat, I am on a stable OSX (10.6.4) install on a Core i7 system. What a beast of a machine! I have it running stable, with an uptime of nearly eighteen days. The machine specs follow:- Core i7 860 Quad Core @ 2.8 … →

< 1 minute Yes, the switch has taken place. Stay tuned, yet again.

< 1 minute I am going back to my roots. OSX is a dish best served Hackintosh’d. An iMac was my cowardly way out. But that is history, the iMac’s on eBay and I am going back to my Hackintosh. Watch this space as I journal my way back, and get back up to speed with the developments … →