27 May 2010 0 Comments

First impressions of the iPad

My iPad arrived on May 27th, a day before it’s official release and I’ve been using it pretty intensively since then. Here are some of my initial observations… The iPad works really well as a web browsing device, since the high res screen makes web pages look beautiful and the low power ARM based processor [...]

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16 February 2009 2 Comments

Sharing a CD/DVD drive over the network with OS X

Problem I’ve got a Mac Mini with a broken DVD drive, but I wanted to install iWork on it from the installation DVD.  Solution I used the Remote Disc feature of Leopard that Apple developed for the diskless MacBook Air to share another machine’s drive over the network. Instructions On the client machine were you [...]