About a year ago I bought one of these gadgets, and despite the very obvious bugs in the software I was happy enough to score it a 3 out of 5 in an online review. In those days I was using it to share USB devices between two Windows XP PCs and the sheer convenience [...]
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For a while now I’ve been wanting to use speech recognition on my Mac, and to be able to tell it to ‘Get my mail’ or to ‘Switch to Firefox’. The problem has been that the Mac Pro doesn’t come with a built-in microphone, and the built-in mike on my Logitech QuickCam Vision Pro, whilst [...]
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When it comes to paperwork I horde everything, convinced that some day I’ll need evidence of something to prove that I paid a utility bill fifteen years ago! The price I pay for this paranoia is three shelves of a bookcase groaning under the weight of thirty carefully organized A4 lever-arch files, stuffed with every [...]
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Everyone these days is banging on at us about taking more care of our personal data, but we’re a lazy bunch you & me and like every other bit of advice we get, we tend to push it to the back of our minds unless it’s easy to follow. Securing your personal data is all [...]
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The repeated and random disconnects I’ve been getting between my Mac Pro and my Windows 2003 Server shares prompted me to look at alternatives. My Kalyway project ended as abruptly as it started. I managed to install it on an old Asus A7N8X-Delux based machine but not long after I was experiencing kernel panics and [...]
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Mac Pro owners will know that finding accessories for their machine can sometimes be a bit of a lottery. iMacs and Mac Books have things like cameras and microphones built-in, and anything else is either a dedicated peripheral from Apple, or something that connects via USB. So when it comes to expanding the Mac Pro [...]
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I am still searching for that elusive ’server’ that’s going to be a little more Apple-friendly than my Windows 2003 Server machine up in the loft. The Kalyway 10.5.2 exercise was interesting but seemed stricken with some fatal flaw. It stopped responding and when I went to investigate, I discovered the machine had suffered a [...]
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I’ll try and keep it brief as there’s already a wealth of information out there about Kalyway, but my little experiment has worked as follows:
Hardware
Asus A7N8X Deluxe motherboard
AMD Athlon XP 4400
2Gb RAM
2 x Maxtor 320Gb IDE drives
1 x Sony CD/DVD RW
nVIDIA 6600GT 256Mb PCI video card
Software
Kalyway 10.5.2
For the install settings I used the defaults with [...]
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Before my heady days as a Mac user, I bought a Canon CanoScan LiDE 25 scanner for my Windows XP setup. It’s a good little scanner too, not particularly quick so you wouldn’t use it to digitize a huge collection of documents for example, but for the odd letter or photo it was fine.
Naturally the [...]
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When I tell people that I spent £1,700 ($3,000) on a shiny new Mac Pro, there’s usually a sharp intake of breath followed quickly by a “How much?!” and “You must be loaded!”. The trouble is it’s very hard to explain to these people where the true savings lie.
My Mac replaced a Windows PC that [...]
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