Using Automator to Gather Troubleshooting Information
Associate Editor George Starcher shows us some fantastic ways to use Automator to troubleshoot.
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April 20, 2012
March 5, 2012
TMUP 257: Terminal in Lion Tips and Tricks
Today I do a screencast where I show you sole Lion Terminal application tricks and tips.
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July 16, 2011
TMUP 238: Publishing iWeb website to Dropbox or a local drive
Today I have a special screencast to show you how we can published iWeb web-sites to Drobox or to a local folder.
Update: Mark from the Every Day Mac Podcast and website wrote to me and clarified that Apple has said it’s going to discontinue the service .Here is what Mark Said…
I just wanted to clarify one point you mentioned in the episode which was relating to the possibility of iWeb Hosting being discontinued as being uncertain. Unfortunately, Apple has officially announced that upon the closure of MobileMe that this service will not be moving across to iCloud. The document in question informing users of this can be found here: http://support.apple.
com/kb/HT4597
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June 17, 2010
Mac OSX Remote Login Access Screencast Part 5
Here is Part 5. This video had been lost on the web so please pardon that this page does not look the same as the others
February 4, 2010
Maworld Expo Here I Come
Wanted to write this post for those of you who were asking about my Macworld Expo plans.
- Adam Christianson from the Maccast and I are arriving in San Francisco on Wed the 10th. This is the third year we have roomed together
- Look for a podcast during the week from me and some of my friends.
- I’ll be doing vendor interviews so I can bring a piece of the show back to all of you.
- I’ll be taking pictures of interesting products and posting them on my Flickr page
- You can see what I am up to by following me on Twitter. I am [at]victorcajiao
- If you see me on the floor walking or doing an interview with vendors, please walk up to me and introduce your self. Don’t be shy, I love meeting people
- I will likely have a few tickets to the Mac Observers Cirque du Mac Party Details: Wednesday, January 7th, 2009 8pm – 12am. It’s the best party during Macworld. So hit me up early to see if I have any tickets left (no promises)
- I will be part of the MacRoundtable Podcast Saturday, February 13, 2010. 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM, MNS14: MacRoundtable Podcast
- I have not set up an “official” photowalk but will likely get up early (like 5AM) on Friday to shoot the city from across they bay. Tweet me and maybe join me
- Adam and I will be going home on Sunday.
I’m looking forward to being at Macworld Expo this year and sharing time with all of you. It’s what the Mac community is all about.
Haven’t signed up to be at Macworld Expo this year?Just go to the Macworld Expo web site and use priority code TWEETMW and you will get a $15 Expo pass or 15% off of any conference package. Thats a $30 savings of the regular $45 price. A great deal!
January 2, 2010
I Was wrong about mixing FW800 and FW400 hard drive on the same bus
I was wrong in what I’ve said on this post. I tested this with a FW400 iSight external camera and my results for that are right. However today I restested this using two external hard drives (one FW400 and one FW800). I did no have any data rate loss at all. I will put out and updated screencast showing this. My apologies for the bad information. However if you are using a FW400 camera of some type I would check that because my test with the FW400 iSight did degrade the bus.
January 1, 2010
Could your Fire Wire 400 Devices be degrading your Fire Wire 800 Devices? I WAS WRONG
UDATE: I was wrong in what I’ve said on this post. I tested this with a FW400 iSight external camera and my results for that are right. However today I restested this using two external hard drives (one FW400 and one FW800). I did no have any data rate loss at all. I will put out and updated screencast showing this. My apologies for the bad information. However if you are using a FW400 camera of some type I would check that because my test with the FW400 iSight did degrade the bus.
Thanks you
Victor
In this video I show you how your Fire Wire devices (like hard drives or old iSight cameras, even video cameras that use fire wire) could be degrading the throughput of your Fire Wire 800 devices.
The main point of this post is that there is only one (1) Fire Wire bus on our Macs and therefore if you use a FW400 device and a FW800 device it will always default to the lower speed , making the efficiency you get from FW800 mute.
Also I used an old Fire Wire 400 external iSight Camera for this test. The built in iSights on Macs today are USB NOT Fire Wire so nothing to worry about.
Here is some more discussion about this topic at ArsTechnica. I did not try every permutation of that is possible I based my findings on my limited testing.
Apple Developer notes on Fire Wire concepts
Apple Developer notes on MacPro Fire Wire bus architecture
December 30, 2009
Podcast Production and Soundtrack Pro
I have posted a number of videos on some of my tricks to podcast production using soundtrack pro. If this sort of thing interests you then check them out. You also should be able to apply some of the concepts to your own editing package of choice. Right now its up to five videos. You can find them at the embedded youtube playlist below. HD is available too.
-George
January 12, 2009
SSH + RSync for Backups
George takes us to the next place in SSH by using RSync to back up.
The text to copy and edit for your automator is below. It is all one line:
rsync -avrz -e “ssh -p 5346 -i .ssh/id_rsa” Documents username@home.homedns.org:/Volumes/ExternalDrive/Backups/Laptop
September 24, 2008
Mac OSX Remote Login Acess Screencast Part 8
This is the last part of George’s great series on OS X and SSH. Thanks to George Starcher.
