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Well, we finally took the plunge into the 21st century and got a new TV along with a new AppleTV. The system is slowly coming together. The FreeNAS box has all the storage, which an older iMac G5 serves out content via iTunes. The AppleTV then streams it’s TV & Movies from the iMac to allow a larger content store than you can normally sync up to the AppleTV. This solution is very seamless and works great thus far.
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Well, after a few years of use, my MacBook Pro’s 80gig hard drive was just not cutting it anymore. With the launch of Leopard it’s now a very easy thing to backup / recover your entire system so that was the catalyst to get this job done. First up was ordering the drive. I picked out a Hitachi 250 gigabyte sata drive for the upgrade. Next was to backup the existing drive using Time Machine.
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With just a little while to go until Steve Jobs fanboy rally MacWorld Keynote Address, and with dreams of iTablets, $3.99 movie rentals, and ultra-thin macbooks. John Siracusa at Ars Technica has posted this years Bingo Cards . My favorite squares are: “Boom” and Leopard vs. Vista. So get yours now and watch the video and play along, or play at the keynote live in person. Don’t forget to read the rules.