I’ve been intrigued by Snow Leopard (OSX 10.6) ever since it came out. Sure, many people hail it as the king of bugfixes (just like what Windows 7 is to Vista), but it does sport some pretty nifty features beneath that facade which are unseen.
Anyhow, in keeping with the times, we needed a new Mac-based machine in the office and I decided to get grimy and build one with Snow Leopard AND Windows. Yup, dual-booting it’s called. Over the weekend, I encountered numerous grey screens of death, hung computers and …

One day, after making the switch to using Apple Mac Mail coupled with IMAP retrieval through Google Apps, I was unpleasantly surprised by a “goobledigook” error message.
Sure it beats the Microsoft error messages of “An exception 06 has occured at 0028:C11B3ADC” (Do I locate that on Google maps? Or is that on someone’s Tee?), but it was still pretty darn foreign to me.
After doing some research, I found the solution, which was hidden under a haystack, under another haystack. In case you encounter an error message like the following, I …

I’m not one of those crazy Mac fanatics who frowns on PC users, but here’s a very funny photo that I received in my email recently.
Is he a spy? Perhaps his Mac was at the doctors for service?

Created with Final Cut Pro, shot with a Panasonic DVX 102B, edited on my Macbook Pro, fuelled by a team of 7 passionate team members… we crafted this short clip in 15 hours!
I attended a Christian media conference recently, which is meant to promote the use of media in the church context. There were 3 streams – live audio, photography and videography. I opted to improve my production skills and signed up for videography. It was an intense 4 days, where we were indoctrinated with the whole production process, from …

Oh great… the secret is out now. It seems Lois Lane now knows the true identity behind Superman. iPhoto just had to spoil it by identifying them both. For those who don’t yet know, iPhoto ‘09 has a feature where it tries to identify the people in your photos automatically. It will then ask you to confirm whether it got it right or not.
When I first “heard” about the concept of this comic, it totally cracked me up and I knew I had to hunt it down and share it. …

If you’ve just gotten a new Mac, taken it out of the shiny box (or started off with Hackintoshes like me!), then installed Mozilla Firefox, you might wonder why the tab button does not move the cursor within forms as it should (or as you are used to anyway).
I’m the type who uses the tab button to switch between text fields, radio buttons, list boxes and submit buttons. But when I got the Mac, I was flabbergasted for a good day or two as the tab button behavior drove me …

An inherent problem of Macbook and Macbook Pro power adapters is that the cable tends to fray and after more usage, it will cease to work. Reinforce your cable with this quick DIY fix that will help you extend the life of your power supply.

If you want to know how badly the power adapter can get, check out how it smokes and fries in the 2 videos below. Scary stuff!

Oh, and for those of you who are into video production, this is the first upload of mine that is in …

As part of my exposure to the world of Macs, I decided to try a project that is fairly publicized on the Internet – to build a Hackintosh. This is essentially building a computer system with regular PC parts that you can pick up from your local computer store, but installing the Mac operating system on it.
This effectively provides you with a full functioning Mac that could even be more powerful than their native Macs, and most importantly… AT A LOWER COST! (I paid less than USD600 for this Core …