Lacie rugged hard disks

After selling my PowerMac G5 and getting a Macbook Pro, I decided that I should also get USB and Firewire powered hard disks (for lowering the noise as well as having more portability).

I now have two Lacie Rugged portable hard disks. A USB-only (250Gb) and a USB/Firewire 400/800 one (320 Gb).

I also have a FireDisk 800-s Unibrain external hard disk (300Gb) that is not bus-powered.

Software that I use

- Mail: Mail.app
- Web Browser: Safari and sometimes Firefox
- TextEditor: TextMate
- DxO Optics Pro for processing RAW files
- VLC - especially after finding out that Apple's DVD Player cannot play extracted DVDs (from VIDEO_TS directories)
- SuperDuper!: this backup software worths every cent of its price. I bought the full version because I wanted to take incremental bootable copies of Mac OS X as they save a lot of time.

Adobe Creative Suite 4

Adobe is going to officially announce Creative Suite 4 on September 23!

Big news!

Sign up for the launch webcast.

The October 2008 issue of MacTech has an article of mine!

Title: A Dashboard Widget that Reads and Saves its Preferences

Subtitle: Create a Dashboard Widget that can save and read data after restarting it

Did you find the above information helpful? You will find a lot more information in my eBook "Programming Dashboard Widgets". The eBook describes how you can create Apple Dashboard Widgets using many programming languages including JavaScript, Perl, Objective-C, and PHP. You can buy it here.

Mac OS X Advanced System Administration v10.5 (Apple Training)

Edward Marczak, the editor of MacTech magazine, is the author of the book Apple Training Series: Mac OS X Advanced System Administration v10.5 (Apple Training).

My new MacBook Pro

After 3+ years with my PowerMac G5 DP @ 2GHz, I now have a 15'' MacBook Pro 2.4GHz!

My reliable and trusty PowerMac G5 DP is in the hands of another Mac user as I could not afford to have two machines.

My new machine is quieter and more powerful so I should not complain. I only hope that it will be as reliable as my PowerMac G5!

iMac advertisement (from Macworld magazine)

Creating a Dashboard Widget that uses a Plugin

The "Creating A Dashboard Widget that uses a Plugin" article that I wrote for MacTech is online.

Did you find the above information helpful? You will find a lot more information in my eBook "Programming Dashboard Widgets". The eBook describes how you can create Apple Dashboard Widgets using many programming languages including JavaScript, Perl, Objective-C, and PHP. You can buy it here.