iLeo's Blog

As an Apple user from the very first click, I am delighted to see that Apple products have become increasingly popular over the past couple of years. I often considered using a Linux machine instead of my Apple computers for their open source-ness, but never did so because a Mac was just easier to use [...]

Keywurl is a great tool for Safari that adds the capability to quickly access almost any search engine from the URL field. You probably no longer surf to Google to just search for something but enter it in the “search box” in the upper right hand corner. With Keywurl you can do exactly this also [...]

Beim Formattieren einer von Haus aus DOS (FAT) formattierten externen 750 GB LaCie Festplatte trat unter Mac OS X Leopard in verschiendsten Variationen ein Fehler auf, wenn ich versucht habe, die Festplatte mit einem moderneren Mac-Dateisystem zu formattieren. Das Formattieren funktionierte, wenn man es im DOS-System versuchte. Leider half die Fehlermeldung wenig weiter: “Formattieren fehlgeschlagen”.

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Nowadays prices for mobile internet are getting reasonable. With e.g. Simyo you get your mobile Megabyte for 24 Euro-Cent. This is okay for e-mail messaging and even for some moderate web-browsing. Of course all this makes more fun if done from a decent computer, say a MacBook, and not using some tiny mobile phone’s keypad. [...]

Now it’s coming (in the U.S….)