Hacking a 2TB Mobile HDD for the Intel NUC PC
I recently got myself an Intel NUC to replace my aging Dell desktop that I use as a home server. The NUCs are quite an amazing unit. It has everything within the unit except...
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I recently got myself an Intel NUC to replace my aging Dell desktop that I use as a home server. The NUCs are quite an amazing unit. It has everything within the unit except...
Apple / MacOS / Microsoft / Technology
by Ken Ng · Published June 16, 2017 · Last modified July 26, 2017
Need to be able to write onto an NTFS disk? Then check out this tip for that free NTFS write support on Mac
Impressed. Very impressed. That’s my first thought when I finally managed to get Parallels Access to work. Not at the fault of the product, but my inability to download the desktop agent for Parallels Access. But wow indeed once I’m able to run it.
Want a free and reliable email service to run your custom domain name? Gmail no longer has a free edition so the only choice left is Hotmail, aka Outlook.com. So here’s a step-by-step tutorial how to do it! Don’t worry, it’s really easy to get it setup.
Windows 8 Pro was finally released late October 2012 and I finally took the plunge to click on the order button today. Why? Well, I was curious to see how the final version of Windows 8 performs on Parallels Desktop 8 on my Mac. The result? Read on the find out what I think!
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.
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.
Microsoft / OS X / Technology
by Ken Ng · Published March 6, 2012 · Last modified September 14, 2012
Wondering what all the fuss on Windows 8 is all about, but only have a Mac in your hands? Don’t worry, just get the latest update of Parallels 7 and you can quickly run Windows 8 Consumer Preview in a few easy steps!
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!
Recently, (NO) thanks to our wonderful host, we had to recover from a RAID failure which caused severe data corruption on our dedicated server’s RAID array. And upon recovering from the fiasco and spending several...
I’d say this. The recent announcement of The Windows Phone 7 Series is what I’ve been waiting for a long time. This is how the smartphone’s OS should have been evolved to. It’s nice and...
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