Back to My Mac

A blue nice icon with white clouds on it; Mobile Me which is even familiar with Windows users who installed iTunes to their PCs, surprised me a lot with its offerings.

Before applying as a trial user to Mobile Me last week, I thought it was just another e-mail and online disk storage offering with some synchronization capabilities by Apple. Also since I’ve heard that Mobile Me package offered iCal synchronization, I got this service as a bundle of Gmail and Dropbox with some pros (i.e. desktop integration, more disk space) and cons (i.e. its price, lack of online office documents).

Anyway, after signing for 60 days free trial period-although it’s said “free" you need to enter your credit card details for signing up- I realized that Mobile Me offers more than a free mail and online storage. Besides an e-mail account at me.com domain and an online disk storage called iDisk with a shared capacity of 20GB in total, iCal online calendar, an online picture gallery called Gallery with simple features, Mobile Me offers two interesting features; “Find My iPhone (or iPad)” and “Back to My Mac”. Before telling more about “Find My iPhone” and “Back to My Mac”, I would like to note that detailed information on Mail, iDisk, iCal, Gallery and their extensive sync capabilities can be find at the link ; http://www.apple.com/mobileme/

Selecting the right download manager for OSX

After checking several download managers available for osx on the net, I decided to try Yazsoft's Speed Download.

Speed Download allows me to enter or paste multiple download links (i.e. rapidshare links) at once, saves login information of download servers, schedule downloads and even upload to rapidshare with button click.

Aperture on headless Mac Mini

When I installed Aperture on my Mac Mini through VNC (Share Screen from my MacBook Pro) , I realized that Aperture can not be initialized and "Error: The installed graphics card does not meet the minimum requirements for Aperture." message displayed. Firstly, I thought that the video card of my Mac Mini didn't have enough memory to run Aperture but after a quick search I realized that some applications like Aperture and Plex can not determine the video resolution if there's not a display monitor attached phsically and also a virtual monitor can not be displayed through VNC connection.

So indeed, after connecting a LCD monitor by using mini-DVI to DVI connector to my Mini Mac, Aperture has been run without any problem and also I could able to access it through VNC.