Thursday, February 18, 2010

Comprehensive guide to Google Voice

http://lifehacker.com/5474933/a-comprehensive-video-guide-to-google-voice

How to run XP mode in Windows 7 without virtualization support in your CPU

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/10911/run-xp-mode-on-windows-7-machines-without-hardware-virtualization/

XP mode in Windows 7 Professional or higher requires that the CPU in the PC to support VT (Intel) or AMD-V (AMD). However, if your CPU does not support virtualization, then you are out of luck. Or if it does support virtualization, but you simply do not want to use Microsoft Virtual PC as the virtual machine and prefer VMware instead, then this tip can help you.

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Time Machine Can Now Backup to a Shared Hard Drive

http://lowendmac.com/zisman/08az/time-machine-shared-backup.html

Basically, the article says that if you have two Macs running 10.5.4 or higher, you can have an external harddrive attached to one Mac and use that connection via the network, you can use Time Machine to backup the other Mac over the network as long as as you enable sharing of this external drive over the network. The Mac that the external drive is attached to acts like a Time Machine server much like airport extreme.