Category Archives: Apple

Leopard funnies

I’ve been living with Mac OS X 10.5, aka Leopard, for a couple of weeks now and am finding it an irritating combination of shinily lovely and frustratingly annoying. In particular, two things are doing my head in.  Unless I’m missing something, it doesn’t appear to be possible to create Smart Mailboxes based on the …

December 18, 2007 – 10:06 am | By tismey | Posted in Apple | Comments (1)

NFS exports and Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

My shiny new MacBook with 10.5 Leopard arrived the other day so I’ve been trying to get it all set up and working. Only problem is that, as commenter Matt point out in his comments to this post, NFS Manager hasn’t been updated yet. This post on Mac OS X Hints suggests that setting up …

December 7, 2007 – 3:39 pm | By tismey | Posted in Apple, TViX | Comments (31)

Dvico TViX HD M-4000 PA + AirPort Disk

I recently had cause to replace my wireless router because my old AirPort Express died. I had a bit of a quandary because I used the Airport Express’s “AirTunes” functionality to stream music through my hifi speakers remotely, but the Express is kind of a dated bit of kit now. In the short term, I …

October 14, 2007 – 12:16 pm | By tismey | Posted in Apple, TViX | Comments (25)

Quicktime 7.2 update breaks Perian

I installed the Quicktime 7.2 / iTunes 7.3.2 updates last week, and discovered today that I could no longer open AVI files in QuickTime Player or iDVD. Finder wouldn’t create a preview either. I use Perian, which provides all the codecs I’ve found I need for doing stuff with Quicktime and iDVD, and apparently the …

August 13, 2007 – 5:13 pm | By tismey | Posted in Apple | Comments Off