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If you use both Mac and Windows, deciding on which file system to format your portable hard disk can sometimes be tricky. By default, the Mac can only read NTFS disks and Windows obviously could not even load an HFS+ formatted disk. Well, what if you didn’t need to choose and can use both HFS+ and NTFS on either your Mac and Windows machines! Wouldn’t that be awesome? Here’s how you can do exactly that.
Have an iPad and am wondering what apps you can download for your kids? With literally thousands of apps in the App Store, that task can be pretty daunting! So here’s is a list of apps that I’ve come to discover and has my kids’ stamp of approval (that they thoroughly enjoy that is)! Hopefully it would help you find the apps that your kids would enjoy too.
Apple / Microsoft / OS X / Technology
by Ken Ng · Published September 7, 2012 · Last modified September 9, 2012
With the recent release of both Parallels Desktop 8 for Mac and VMware Fusion 5, it’s time again to compare the two popular virtualization solutions for Mac and see which suits you better and if an upgrade from the previous versions worth considering.
Parallels Desktop 8 for Mac is here! In this article, I explore some of the key features introduced in this latest iteration of the #1 virtualization solution for Mac.
Apple / MacBook Pro / OS X / Technology
by Ken Ng · Published June 29, 2012 · Last modified January 30, 2018
If you find yourself wanting upgrade your Mac’s Bluetooth 2.1 support with a USB dongle that supports Bluetooth 4.0, here’s a tip for you to get it working with those cheap but unsupported Bluetooth 4.0 USB dongles you can find posted on eBay.
Safari 5.2 is already seeded to Safari developers. Question is can you get it as well, and if you could, is it stable enough to run it on your primary PC? Well, read on to see how I’ve found Safari 5.2 a much welcomed update on my OS X Lion system!
Apple / Microsoft / OS X / Technology
by Ken Ng · Published February 24, 2012 · Last modified December 12, 2020
SSD is very expensive in terms of it’s real estate and you simply do not want to put just about any junk you have that’s not worth it’s space there. Therefore, you would want to make sure if it’s really worth plunking the tens of GBs worth of VM image onto your precious SSD storage. So, should you or should you not? Is there significant performance improvements that warrant the large chunk of the SSD dedicated to the VM image? Read on to find out!
Apple / MacBook Pro / Technology
by Ken Ng · Published February 21, 2012 · Last modified January 23, 2021
In the recent Mountain Lion preview announcement, we are starting to see quite a bit of convergence of iOS apps being introduced into Mac OS X. There’s a whole lot of iCloud enhanced apps like Calendar, Reminder, Notes, etc. If you are familiar with the iPad, there’s nothing really new here, except that it’s going to be available soon! But there’s also a gem that was released on the same announcement, and that’s the Messages app which is available now as a beta app.
Here’s a quick blurb on a missing feature from OS X Lion. The auto restore of all the previously opened windows of applications is pretty nice. I like it when it’s for certain productivity...
What’s new? VMWare Fusion 4 is new. Just having installed the 30-days trial and having a quick go at it, I’d have to say that it’s looking pretty good to give Parallels some competition....
If you keep getting prompts to reenter the password for your CalDAV calendars on OS X Lion, here’s a fix that might work for you.
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