Beamer 2.0 is the long-awaited follow-up to an excellent video streaming app that I've been using for years. The first version of Beamer was a pretty simple affair. Launch the app. Select an Apple TV and then drag and drop...
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Set up an NFS mount and connect to it on CentOS/RHEL Linux
NFS mounts have two parts. The first part is the server that hosts the share point. The second part is the client that access the share point. You can have one or more clients accessing the same share point on an...
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Get some of my new how-to guides…
I've started putting up some how-to guides that I can direct people to so I don't have to answer the same questions time and time again. Here they are: Automatica Guidebook - Automatica How To Guides
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Product Review – Logitech case+drive
Could this be it? The perfect car kit for the iPhone, or any device for that matter? The basic premise of the Logitech case+ range is simple. There's a case for your phone, and there are other bits that attach...
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Product Review – Clingo Universal in-car holder
I'm on the hunt for the perfect car mount for my iPhone. Shouldn't be too difficult, no? Well, as it turns out, it's harder than it looks to find something that really does everything I want it to. First up,...
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Product Review – Magnetic Battery Case for iPhone 5/5S
I was recently given this Magnetic Battery Case for an iPhone 5S to review and whilst it's generally a well made case that does exactly what it says, there are a few quirks you need to be aware of. First...
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Hide Recovery HD after cloning an OS X installation
Sometimes when you clone an OS X installation, for example using Carbon Copy Cloner, it will create a Recovery HD partition but not hide it for you. The "hidden" status of a partition is determined by it's partition type -...
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Reset OS X Mountain Lion web server settings
I've been doing a fair amount of non-standard tweaking to Mountain Lion's web services. It's not difficult to completely break the web server, and initially it looks like it's near impossible to fix it unless you know exactly what you...
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Data Corruption on Promise Pegasus R4 Thunderbolt RAID
I recently set up a Mac mini Server with a Promise Pegasus R4 RAID. I reinitialised the array a RAID6. I left the stripe size at the default of 128k, and changed the block size to 4k as this should...
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SSL Certs on sale at GoDaddy
Yes, if there's one thing that GoDaddy are good at, it's pimping their wares. Occasionally though their sales are useful. Like this one - if you're running your own mail server or a website with a dedicated IP, you can...
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