Showing posts with label mac. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mac. Show all posts
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Best Mac Downloads of 2008
Brad added this link for the best Mac downloads of 2008 to his del.icio.us account and it has several interesting entries including Timemachine backups over the network, Dropbox (file synchronization over the net) and XBMC (a very nice looking cross platform media center).
Writable NTFS on Mac
I use an external HD to to carry large files between home and office but the Mac (or at least Leopard) doesn't support NTFS as a writable filesystem so the arrangement is only useful when all the new data is at the office and nothing needs to be changed at home. Obviously this is not ideal.
MacFUSE allows the addition of new fileystems to the Mac including NTFS-3g which originated on Linux (I believe). Installation is quick and simple (install MacFUSE, install NTFS-3g) and after a reboot, NTFS partitions are writable without any configuration required.
A quick search turns up a number of other filesystems that could also be used through MacFUSE incuding two that will encrypt a partition and one that will allow the se of a Gmail account as storage.
MacFUSE allows the addition of new fileystems to the Mac including NTFS-3g which originated on Linux (I believe). Installation is quick and simple (install MacFUSE, install NTFS-3g) and after a reboot, NTFS partitions are writable without any configuration required.
A quick search turns up a number of other filesystems that could also be used through MacFUSE incuding two that will encrypt a partition and one that will allow the se of a Gmail account as storage.
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