Category Archives: Tech

NFS behind NAT on Mac OS X

Mounting NFS behind a masquerading NAT router can be a nuisance if you don’t know how to do it.

Battery Status Widget

Kim Bauters has built a nice Battery Status widget for Mac OS X Tiger’s Dashboard. It is roughly based on coconutBattery and it will show you your battery fitness (current capacity), the number of charge cycles it’s been through, and … Continue reading 

Google Talk – All talk and no play?

With a lot of fuss, Google announced a new service: Google Talk. A quick look on the supported clients page, showed nothing spectacular: voice chats are only possible with Google’s own client, which is unfortunately only supported on Microsoft’s Windows … Continue reading 

Apple goes double: 2-button mice

After the switch from SCSI to IDE, Mac OS 9 to Unix based Mac OS X and PowerPC to Intel, Apple finally switched to two-button mice today. Introducing… The Mighty Mouse! Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s not a … Continue reading 

New iBooks and Mac mini’s

As expected, Apple has finally updated their line of iBooks today, along with a new Mac mini today. Both the iBook and the Mac mini now come with a standard amount of 512MB RAM: Finally enough to run Mac OS … Continue reading