by ray | Mar 23, 2015 | Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows
External drives allow you to quickly moves large files between computers. If you want yours to seamlessly work with both Macs and PCs, your external drive needs to use a filesystem that is supported by both platforms. The problem is that by default Windows uses NFTS,...
by ray | Mar 23, 2015 | Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows
Using an external drive between Mac and Windows computers can be a hassle, since you constantly have to reformat it to fit which computer you’re using it on. Instead of reformatting it all the time, just use the much more platform-independent exFAT and never...
by ray | Mar 21, 2015 | Linux / Ubuntu, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows
When URLs are just not resolving the way you want it, to time to clear or flush the dns nameserver local cache – How to clear the local DNS cache…. OSX 10.10 sudo discoveryutil udnsflushcaches OSX 10.9 dscacheutil -flushcache; sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder OSX...
by ray | Mar 16, 2015 | Mac OS X
Q: For a while now I have been trying to figure out how to locate all of the MP3 formatted songs in my iTunes library and convert them to AAC. This becomes increasingly difficult when your iTunes is over 50 GB and the only way I have is to use the search feature in...
by ray | Jan 10, 2014 | Mac OS X
Someone recently asked me how to change their Mac’s computer name because they were annoyed by the extra lengthy default in the ‘Computer Name’ screensaver. Although this individual was concerned about their screensaver, changing your Mac’s name is also important...
by ray | Jan 28, 2010 | IT / Tech News, Mac OS X
From your Mac OS X, go to the top Finder menu > Go > Connect to Server. Then type smb://IP_of_windows_server. Prompt should appear and enter the following: domainusername followed by password That’s it.
