Holy Shmoly! » Mac http://ocaoimh.ie Look what I found today! Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:27:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Pangea Arcade is free on the Mac App sto… http://ocaoimh.ie/2011/01/17/pangea-arcade-is-free-on-the-mac-app-sto/ http://ocaoimh.ie/2011/01/17/pangea-arcade-is-free-on-the-mac-app-sto/#comments Mon, 17 Jan 2011 10:24:53 +0000 Donncha O Caoimh http://xeer2000.com/2011/01/17/pangea-arcade-is-free-on-the-mac-app-sto/ Continue reading →]]> Pangea Arcade is free on the Mac App store right now. There are 3 classic arcade games in this app based on Centipede, Asteroids and Missile Command so there’s plenty of gameplay on offer here!

I’m trying to install it but the App Store has frozen on my machine. Hopefully it’ll stop being a buggy POS sometime this morning so I can download this. *sigh* (Thanks James for the news!)

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]]> http://ocaoimh.ie/2011/01/17/pangea-arcade-is-free-on-the-mac-app-sto/feed/ 2 Every OS Sucks http://ocaoimh.ie/2010/12/06/os-sucks/ http://ocaoimh.ie/2010/12/06/os-sucks/#comments Mon, 06 Dec 2010 16:28:52 +0000 Donncha O Caoimh http://ocaoimh.ie/?p=89496077 Continue reading →]]> I’m sure I’ve heard this before but the video is new to me. Enjoy!

Odd that their C64 isn’t plugged in. The power cable went in at the side. The joystick ports are strangely blacked out too. Gosh, might it not be a real Commodore 64? (via)

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]]> http://ocaoimh.ie/2010/12/06/os-sucks/feed/ 1 Half Life 2 comes to the Mac http://ocaoimh.ie/2010/05/27/half-life-2-comes-to-the-mac/ http://ocaoimh.ie/2010/05/27/half-life-2-comes-to-the-mac/#comments Thu, 27 May 2010 12:11:41 +0000 Donncha O Caoimh http://xeer2000.wordpress.com/2010/05/27/half-life-2-comes-to-the-mac/ Continue reading →]]> I’m downloading Half Life 2 through Steam on my Macbook now. I don’t expect it to run any better than Portal did however. Glad I have the Orange Box on my Xbox if I want a decent game of either! (Thanks giantbomb!)

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]]> http://ocaoimh.ie/2010/05/27/half-life-2-comes-to-the-mac/feed/ 0 Steam for Mac launches http://ocaoimh.ie/2010/05/13/steam-for-mac-launches/ http://ocaoimh.ie/2010/05/13/steam-for-mac-launches/#comments Thu, 13 May 2010 11:55:30 +0000 Donncha O Caoimh http://xeer2000.wordpress.com/2010/05/13/steam-for-mac-launches/ Continue reading →]]> Steam launched for Mac this morning and I’ve just installed it, along with the 33MB update that downloaded as soon as I started the programme. They’re giving away Portal for free until May 24th. Thanks Alex for the heads up!

I’m downloading it even though I just got a window saying my system didn’t meet the minimum system requirements. Oddly enough it mentions “Windows driver version” so that might be just a bug. The download is very slow but it’s hit 75% so not long now. More later …

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]]> http://ocaoimh.ie/2010/05/13/steam-for-mac-launches/feed/ 0 Crash Different http://ocaoimh.ie/2009/03/20/crash-different/ http://ocaoimh.ie/2009/03/20/crash-different/#comments Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:59:47 +0000 Donncha O Caoimh http://ocaoimh.ie/?p=89494679 Continue reading →]]>

An oldie, but as they say, “a goody”. For all the Mac fans who are sick and tired of their computers crashing. (Hey Mark!)
Found this on a CD while sorting through my CDRs and music collection. Most are now ripped to MP3 and the physical media is heading into the attic for safe storage.

Why is it that most of my compilation CDs are from about 10 years ago? Does music become less relevant the older you get? I’ve never bought music online but if I do, Blue Lights on the Runway by Bell X1 will probably be the first album I buy. Love “The Great Defector”, their current single.

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]]> http://ocaoimh.ie/2009/03/20/crash-different/feed/ 3 How do you backup to DVD? http://ocaoimh.ie/2008/01/19/how-do-you-backup-to-dvd/ http://ocaoimh.ie/2008/01/19/how-do-you-backup-to-dvd/#comments Sat, 19 Jan 2008 08:25:43 +0000 Donncha O Caoimh http://ocaoimh.ie/2008/01/19/how-do-you-backup-to-dvd/ Continue reading →]]> One of my external drives failed yesterday and for an hour I thought I had lost a lot of family videos and other stuff. My photos are backed up on to another drive with backuppc, but there simply isn’t room to backup everything there. Luckily the drive came back after I unplugged it and let it cool down but I don’t trust it now. I think I need a RAID server with at least 1TB of space to be future proof for the next 2 or 3 years.

I would love an application that you could point at a directory or a list of files and directories and it would burn them onto multiple DVDs, filling each disk to it’s maximum. Backing up my photo archive has always been a bit painful, trying to find and remember which directories I had just burned, comparing file listings, etc.

Tar doesn’t cut it however. I want to be able to restore a single file or directory by looking at the DVD contents in a file manager.

I used to have a DOS app that did this. I can’t remember what it was called, but point it at a directory of stuff and it would prompt for a floppy disk, write to it, prompt again, write, and so on until finished. Simple.

Is there a Linux or Mac app that will do that? I think I’ll write a shell script to do it if nobody else knows of an alternative.

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]]> http://ocaoimh.ie/2008/01/19/how-do-you-backup-to-dvd/feed/ 19 The PC and the Mac – a love story http://ocaoimh.ie/2005/08/29/the-pc-and-the-mac-a-love-story/ http://ocaoimh.ie/2005/08/29/the-pc-and-the-mac-a-love-story/#comments Mon, 29 Aug 2005 13:32:28 +0000 Donncha O Caoimh http://blogs.linux.ie/xeer/2005/08/29/the-pc-and-the-mac-a-love-story/ Here’s a cute animation. The love story of an office PC and a Mac!

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