SleepWatcher - A utility to run tasks on sleep/wake

jhm – Mon, 2009 – 01 – 26 01:37

This is a utility I have been looking for. It allows you to execute tasks when the computer/display goes to sleep and/or wakes up. Very nice.

Here is a little more discussion about it.

Installation Screen

jhm – Mon, 2008 – 08 – 25 08:38

Target Mode Installation

jhm – Mon, 2008 – 08 – 25 08:37

Two Mac Book Pro hooked up via Firewire

jhm – Mon, 2008 – 08 – 25 08:36

Copy Tracks to remote iTunes

jhm – Sat, 2008 – 03 – 15 09:02

Thanks to Paul I got spared a lot of time trying to figure this out for myself. I have the same setup (mini with front row as media center) and even use a NAS to store everything, but could never figure out how to add it to the remote iTunes

Newton Virus

jhm – Thu, 2008 – 03 – 06 09:57

Mail.app Unread Mystery

jhm – Thu, 2007 – 08 – 23 09:56

After having silently suffered for a long time, finally the solution to my read e-mails reverting back to unread status ...

Hillarious

jhm – Fri, 2007 – 02 – 09 20:56

This is very funny

Parallels and Solaris

jhm – Thu, 2007 – 01 – 18 10:44

When adding or changing disks to a parallels VM, you might see the following error message [image:282 style='float: right']

To fix it, boot into the failsafe mode and run bootadm on the mounted root disk like in the following image [image:283]

Unlocking the full potential of your Mac Pro's Sony DW-D150A

jhm – Wed, 2007 – 01 – 10 07:59

Apple has been shipping two types of burners in the MacPro. The first is far from being unknown, as it is a Pioneer DVR-111D. The second, which one finds more often, is a Sony DW-D150A.