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		<title>Time Machine Backup hängt</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 16:47:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Markus Zeller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ein Backup zu haben ist immer eine feine Sache und kann manchmal sogar Leben retten &#8211; zumindest das Leben von Bits und Bytes. Mit Time Machine ist das besonders einfach, weil man damit einfach keine Arbeit hat und es ein &#8230; <a href="http://www.markuszeller.com/time-machine-backup-hangt">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ein Backup zu haben ist immer eine feine Sache und kann manchmal sogar Leben retten &#8211; zumindest das Leben von Bits und Bytes. Mit Time Machine ist das besonders einfach, weil man damit einfach keine Arbeit hat und es ein Bestandteil des Betriebssystems ist.</p>
<h2>Hilfe! Ein Käfer?</h2>
<p>Leider habe ich einen kleinen &#8220;Bug&#8221; oder sagen wir lieber &#8220;Schönheitsfehler&#8221; entdeckt: Kürzlich habe ich mein OS aktualisiert und somit sind viele neue Dateien vorhanden, die gesichert werden wollen. Das Backup ist mittendrin stehengeblieben und hat einfach nicht weitergemacht.</p>
<p><span style="color: #000000; font-size: 23px; line-height: 35px;">Wie funktioniert Time Machine?</span></p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1583" title="Time Machine copy" src="http://www.markuszeller.com/wp-content/uploads/Time-Machine-copy.png" alt="" width="335" height="223" />Bevor ich mit der Lösung fortfahre will ich einmal kurz und knapp das Prinzip von Time Machine Backups erklären.</p>
<p>Time Machine muss zuerst ein volles Backup anfertigen, danach werden nur die Daten gesichert die neu sind oder sich verändert haben. Das bringt einen erheblichen Geschwindigkeitsvorteil und spart auch gleichzeitig jede Menge Plattenplatz.</p>
<p>Der erste Schritt ist das &#8220;Vorbereiten&#8221; in dem alle Daten zunächst ermittelt werden, die neu gesichert werden sollen. Je mehr Dateien, desto länger dauert dieser Vorgang. Danach beginnt die Datensicherung und letztendlich der Aufräumvorgang.</p>
<p><span style="color: #000000; font-size: 23px; line-height: 35px;">Warum bleibt das Backup stehen?</span></p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1584" title="Energy Saver copy" src="http://www.markuszeller.com/wp-content/uploads/Energy-Saver-copy.png" alt="" width="340" height="256" />Sparen ist gut, aber zu viel Geiz eben nicht &#8211; und zwar mit Energie. In den Energiespar-Einstellungen ist festgelegt, dass die Festplatten frühstmöglich in den Ruhezustand gehen sollen.</p>
<p>In meinem Fall handelt es sich um eine externe Festplatte. Weil es eben relativ viele Daten sind, die gesichert werden hat die &#8220;Vorbereitung&#8221; länger gebraucht und die externe Platte einfach abgeschaltet. Geht man nun in die Engerie-Optionen und stellt das kurzfristig ab, so läuft die Datensicherung wieder an einem Stück durch.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><span style="color: #000000; font-size: 23px; line-height: 35px;">Noch ein Extra-Tip</span></p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1585" title="All Messages copy" src="http://www.markuszeller.com/wp-content/uploads/All-Messages-copy.png" alt="" width="494" height="237" />Mit dem Consolen-Log Programm in den Application Utilities kann man ebenfalls gute Analysen durchführen und nach Fehlern suchen. Mit der Eingabe von &#8220;backupd&#8221; sieht man alle Ausgaben von Time Machine.</p>
<p>Das klappt auch bei sämtlichen anderen Programme, die Ihre Machenschaften in Logdateien protokollieren.</p>
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		<title>WebM / VP8 vs. H.264</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 09:38:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Markus Zeller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In letzter Zeit dreht sich bei mir relativ viel um Video und bisher habe ich immer den H.264 Codec verwendet, da er unglaublich gute Kompression bei hervorragender Qualität bietet. Dieser Codec wird von sämtlichen Geräten sogar hardwareseitig unterstützt und hat &#8230; <a href="http://www.markuszeller.com/webm-vp8-vs-h-264">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In letzter Zeit dreht sich bei mir relativ viel um Video und bisher habe ich immer den H.264 Codec verwendet, da er unglaublich gute Kompression bei hervorragender Qualität bietet. Dieser Codec wird von sämtlichen Geräten sogar hardwareseitig unterstützt und hat somit eine große Verbreitung und Unterstützung.</p>
<h3>Lizenzen bringen Probleme</h3>
<p>Allerdings soll es bei diesem Codec in Zukunft einige <a href="http://www.golem.de/1007/76448.html" target="_blank">lizenzrechtliche Probleme</a> geben und die Suche nach Alternativen ist die einzig vernünftige Lösung.</p>
<h3>Die Zukunft</h3>
<p>Bei modernen Browsern der neuen Generation wie Google Chrome, Firefox 4, IE9, etc. ist ein Audio- und Videoplayer bereits integriert, um das Video-Tag einzubinden. Das Format <a href="http://www.webmproject.org/" target="_blank">WebM</a> mit dem VP8 Codec ist bereits gut unterstützt.</p>
<p>Google ist sogar einen Schritt weitergegangen und hat H.264 direkt <a href="http://www.tgdaily.com/security-features/53490-google-cuts-chrome-h264-support" target="_blank">rausgeworfen</a> und setzt nur noch auf VP8. Bei Youtube wird ebenfalls <a href="http://www.youtube.com/html5" target="_blank">alles</a> dahin codiert und abgelegt. Somit ist der Trend scheinbar festgelegt.</p>
<h3>Press play on tape</h3>
<p>Das Abspielen innerhalb der oben genannten Browser funktioniert bereits. Einfach die Videodatei mit dem Browser entweder über das Menu öffnen oder per Drag und Drop reinwerfen. Auch andere Wiedergabeprogramme wie VLC zeigen die Inhalte einwandfrei.</p>
<h3>Encodieren</h3>
<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1568" title="Compression Settings" src="http://www.markuszeller.com/wp-content/uploads/Compression-Settings.png" alt="" width="172" height="134" />Leider gibt es auf dem Mac mit OS X 10.6.6 noch keine native Unterstützung, doch es gibt eine sehr bequeme Methode für Quicktime 7 Pro. Einfach das Paket <a title="WebM Package" href="http://code.google.com/p/webm/downloads/detail?name=WebM%20Component%20Installer.pkg&amp;can=2&amp;q=" target="_blank">WebM Component Installer.pkg</a> installieren und schon kann man im WebM-Format exportieren.</p>
<p>Ein kurzer Test mit dem VP8 Codec hat sogar noch kleinere Dateien als mit H.264 Codec erzeugt &#8211; allerdings muss ich das erst noch genauer unter die Lupe nehmen.</p>
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		<title>Bilder, Pixel, Kompression</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 08:32:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Markus Zeller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Es gibt jede Menge Dateiformate in denen man seine Bilder und Videos speichern kann. Doch diese digitalen Daten nehmen reichlich Platz auf der Festplatte ein. Je mehr desto besser? Der Hype um immer hochauflösendere Fotos und Videos nimmt auch heutzutage &#8230; <a href="http://www.markuszeller.com/bilder-pixel-kompression">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Es gibt jede Menge Dateiformate in denen man seine Bilder und Videos speichern kann. Doch diese digitalen Daten nehmen reichlich Platz auf der Festplatte ein.</p>
<h4>Je mehr desto besser?</h4>
<p>Der Hype um immer hochauflösendere Fotos und Videos nimmt auch heutzutage noch nicht ab. Kameras verkaufen sich nur, wenn sie möglichst viele Megapixel aufwarten. Genauso verhält es sich mit den Videoaufahmegeräten. HD und Full-HD sind dabei die Zauberwörter.</p>
<p>Je mehr desto besser &#8211; das ist aber nur zum Teil richtig, denn eine hohe Auflösung hilft auch nicht weiter, wenn die dahintersteckende Optik minderwertig ist.</p>
<h4>Wohin mit den Daten?</h4>
<p>Schon lange lohnt es sich gar nicht mehr seine Dateien auf CDs oder DVDs zu brennen, denn da passt einfach viel zu wenig drauf. Durchschnittliche Digitalbilder sind ca. 1,5 MB groß. Auf eine CD passen etwa 700 MB, also ist Platz für knapp 450 Bilder. Eine Standard-DVD fasst ca. 7 mal so viel wie eine CD.</p>
<p>Eigentlich eine ganz tolle Sache, denn da passt der ganze Urlaub schön sortiert auf eine Scheibe.</p>
<h4>Warum nicht brennen?</h4>
<p>Das Problem mit diesen brennbaren Datenträgern ist allerdings, dass die Datenbeständigkeit unterirdisch ist. Die Hersteller versprechen Haltbarkeiten von vielen Jahren.</p>
<p>Meine Erfahrung &#8211; und ja, auch mit Markenrohlingen &#8211; zeigen das genaue Gegenteil. Nach etwa 1-5 Jahren war von meinen gesicherten Bits und Bytes nicht mehr viel übrig. Von anderen habe ich ähnliche Schaudergeschichten gehört.</p>
<h4>Wohin dann?</h4>
<p>Externe Festplatten sind bestens geeignet, um große Datenmengen auch dauerhaft zu sichern. Sie brauchen wenig Stauraum, lassen sich bequem am Computer via USB oder Firewire anstöpseln, sind als Datenträger verfügbar und das Kopieren geht rasend schnell.</p>
<p>Außerdem kann man auf Festplatten nicht mehr benötigte Daten einfach löschen &#8211; versuch das mal bei einer DVD.</p>
<p>Eine externe Platte mit einem Terabyte erhält man deutlich unter 100 Euro und darauf passen dann ganz grob überschlagen 700.000 Bilder.</p>
<h4>Bildgrößen</h4>
<p>Die Größeneinheit für Bilder ist in der digitalen Welt in Pixeln angegeben. Ein Pixel entspricht einem Bildpunkt den, man auf dem Bildschirm sehen kann. Damit wäre das Bild aber nur schwarz-weiß, daher gibt es noch eine Farbtiefe, die dann angibt wieviel Bits ein Pixel enthält um einen farbigen Punkt darzustellen.</p>
<p>Gängige Farbtiefen, sicherlich auch bekannt aus der Bildschirmauflösung des Computerbildschirms sind</p>
<ul>
<li>8 Bit mit 256 Farben</li>
<li>16 Bit mit 65536 Farben</li>
<li>24 Bit mit 16,7 Millionen Farben</li>
<li>32 bit mit gerundet 430 Millionen Farben.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Rechenbeispiele</h4>
<p>Bei einer Bildschirmauflösung von 1900 x 1200 Pixeln und einer Farbtiefe von 24 bit haben wir dann 5,4720,000 Bits. Ein Byte umfasst acht Bits, also haben wir dann 6,52 MB nur an Rohdaten für die Grafikkarte!</p>
<p>Rechnen wir das noch einmal für eine Digicam mit 12 Megapixeln, dann haben wir (4048 x 3040 x 24) / 8 = 35 MB Rohdaten pro Bild.</p>
<p>Daraus lernen wir, dass Fotos für den Bildschirm so eine Auflösung gar nicht benötigen, da reichen Bilder mit 5 Megapixeln bei 2595 x 1944 mehr als aus.</p>
<h4>Rohformat?</h4>
<p>Spiegelreflex-Profikameras allerdings können die Bilder tatsächlich im Rohformat ablegen und dann sind die Dateien dann auch so riesig! Profi-Fotographen wollen und brauchen die bestmögliche Qualität für Ihre Arbeit.</p>
<h4>Warum sind meine Bilddateien kleiner?</h4>
<p>Digitalfotos mit 35 MB findet man so allerdings bei einer einfachen und herkömmlichen Digicam nicht auf seiner Speicherkarte, weil die Bilder durch spezielle Algorythmen komprimiert sind.</p>
<p>Dabei gibt es zwei wesentliche Methoden der Bilddatenkompression, nämlich mit oder ohne Qualitätsverlust.</p>
<p>Eine Datenkompression funktioniert in der Regel so, dass nach wiederkehrenden Mustern gesucht und diese dann zusammengefasst werden. Somit benötigt man weniger Platz.</p>
<h4>Methode 1: Verlustfrei</h4>
<p>Gängige verlustfreie Formate sind RAW, BMP, TIFF, PNG, JP2, das heißt, alle Bilder, die in diesen Formaten gespeichert werden, behalten ihre volle Qualität. Die allerbeste Kompression hat allerdings JP2, danach folgt PNG und TIFF. RAW und BMP komprimieren gar nicht.</p>
<p>JP2 alias JPEG2000 wird von Windows 7 direkt leider gar nicht unterstützt. Mit dem kostenlosen <a href="http://www.apple.com/de/quicktime/" target="_blank">Apple Quicktime Picture Viewer</a> oder <a href="http://www.xnview.de/" target="_blank">XNView</a> lassen sich diese allerdings anzeigen. Sicherlich kann es auch die eine oder andere Bildbearbeitung. Auf dem Mac ist das gar kein Problem, es ist keine Zusatzsoftware nötig.</p>
<p><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphakanal" target="_blank">Alphakanäle</a> werden von TIFF, PNG und JP2 unterstützt.</p>
<p>Beispiel Desktop-Wallpaper:</p>
<ul>
<li>BMP = 6,9 MB</li>
<li>TIFF = 2,4 MB ^ Ersparnis 35%</li>
<li>PNG = 1,8 MB ^ Ersparnis 73%</li>
<li>JP2 = 0,3 MB ^ Ersparnis 95% (6 x kleiner als PNG)</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Methode 2: Verlustbehaftet</strong></p>
<p>Beim Musikformat MP3 wird eine Psychoakkustikanalyse vorgenommen und somit werden nicht oder nur schwer hörbare Töne schlichtweg weggelassen. Deshalb bleibt weniger Material übrig das komprimiert werden muss und die Dateien werden letztendlich kleiner.</p>
<p>Bei Bildern funktioniert das recht ähnlich, denn oftmals liegen sehr ähnliche Farben nebeneinander und werden dann einfach zusammengefasst und später durch berechnete Annäherungen (Interpolation) wieder auf dem Bildschirm dargestellt.</p>
<p>Das dort bekannteste Format ist JPG. Man kann sogar die Höhe des Qualitätsverlusts mit den meisten Bildbearbeitungsprogrammen festlegen und dann selbst bestimmen wieviel Verlust man in Kauf nehmen will.</p>
<p>Der Vorteil ist klar: die Datei wird kleiner.</p>
<p>JP2 kann übrigens bei Bedarf genau wie JPG auch verlustbehaftet speichern.</p>
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		<title>Aggregate multiple audio devices</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:13:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Markus Zeller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Speaker vs. Headphone Did you ever plug in a headphone? Then the same happens like on the iPhone: The Computer is muted and the headphone makes the music. I hate that! Why? Because I am so fussy and want to &#8230; <a href="http://www.markuszeller.com/aggregate-multiple-audio-devices">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3>Speaker vs. Headphone</h3>
<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1538" title="headphone-speaker-mute" src="http://www.markuszeller.com/wp-content/uploads/headphone-speaker-mute.jpg" alt="" width="116" height="110" />Did you ever plug in a <a title="Headphone" href="http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B003JBHLUO?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=forweb-21&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1638&amp;creative=19454&amp;creativeASIN=B003JBHLUO" target="_blank">headphone</a>? Then the same happens like on the iPhone: The Computer is muted and the headphone makes the music. I hate that! Why? Because I am so fussy and want to spare my hardware. Especially jacks are sensitive and easily getting loose. So it would be so much better having a headphone connected, put it aside and still enjoy the <a title="iMac" href="http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B003XLYAWW?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=forweb-21&amp;link_code=as3&amp;camp=2514&amp;creative=9386&amp;creativeASIN=B003XLYAWW" target="_blank">iMac&#8217;s</a> speaker sound as well. There is no option anywhere in the preferences, so I have to accept this. The only solution I know is getting an external sound card.</p>
<h3>Phase change</h3>
<p><img class="size-full wp-image-1539 alignright" title="phasex24" src="http://www.markuszeller.com/wp-content/uploads/phasex24.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="65" />So I did, and I am the proud owner of the external <a title="Terratec Phase X24" href="http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B000COKZCW?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=forweb-21&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1638&amp;creative=19454&amp;creativeASIN=B000COKZCW" target="_blank">Terratec Phase X24</a> Firewire audio card. Really great device, and you know what? I can connect a headphone with still having sound everywhere. YES!</p>
<h3>Record</h3>
<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1540" title="record" src="http://www.markuszeller.com/wp-content/uploads/record.jpg" alt="" width="64" height="64" />I love making music and hopefully you have subscribed <a title="DJ N-4cer Promo Podcast" href="http://www.itunes.com/podcast?id=323879840" target="_blank">my audio podcast</a>. To create my sounds I mainly use software like <a title="Record and Reason" href="http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B0040HDUQ0?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=forweb-21&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1638&amp;creative=19454&amp;creativeASIN=B0040HDUQ0">Record in combination with Reason</a>. Record is so great in connecting audio hardware with multiple inputs and outputs.</p>
<h3>Combine in, combine out</h3>
<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1541" title="Record-audio" src="http://www.markuszeller.com/wp-content/uploads/Record-audio.jpg" alt="" width="224" height="123" />For my latest song I needed to record my voice while playing the music inside Record. That masterpiece software is able to do that, but my USB microphone was not in there. Checking out all the devices, I noticed for the first time, that Record combines audio devices with inputs and outputs.</p>
<p>Shit happens, my PhaseX24 and the <a title="Samson USB GoMic" href="http://www.samsontech.com/products/productpage.cfm?prodID=2010" target="_blank">Samson GoMic</a> was not listed up in combination.</p>
<h3>Got a Mac? Do it yourself!</h3>
<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1542" title="midi" src="http://www.markuszeller.com/wp-content/uploads/midi.jpg" alt="" width="64" height="64" />Damn, yeah! I am a Mac user, so that&#8217;s no big deal. I will create my own device!</p>
<p>I have just opened the Audio and MIDI settings, and voila, there is the add button. Give it a name and click all devices I want to have in there. Made a check on PhaseX24 and one Samson USB GoMic, that&#8217;s it! Restarting Record, running to preferences and there it is: my PhaseX24+GoMic device.</p>
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		<title>Newer is not always better</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 11:08:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Markus Zeller</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3>There is an update</h3>
<p>If I see an update of an application, I want to have the latest and hottest stuff, of course. But first of all I read the changelog to know what is new or changed, and then I do run the update.</p>
<h3>Unwanted changes</h3>
<p>Sometimes, the developers change the behavior of a certain feature or in worst case it is even removed. If I really need this functionality exactly as it was before, it would make sense to downgrade the fresh installed update back to the old version.</p>
<p>New software is not always an improvement. A <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">good</span> bad example is <a href="http://www.aptana.org/studio" target="_blank">Aptana Studio</a> having removed the FTP-Sync functionality from version 1.5 to 2.0. It was so heavenly useful and now it is gone. The developers <a href="https://aptanastudio.tenderapp.com/discussions/questions/74-cannot-find-sync-manager" target="_blank">stated</a> to eventually bringing it back in a future version.</p>
<h3>Back to the past</h3>
<p>If that worst case scenario became true, it is often impossible to get the old version back, because the vendor often just serves the latest version for downloading. But, what if there is no archive existing? Where do you get it?</p>
<h3>For the Mac user</h3>
<p>On a Mac you can use Time Machine and grab your old copy back from the Applications backup folder. But what, if no Time Machine backup was created?</p>
<p>Then go to <a href="http://mac.oldversion.com/" target="_blank">http://mac.oldversion.com/</a> and download what you need. They have a large archive and host really many old versions of favourite applications.</p>
<h3>For the Windows user</h3>
<p>Go to <a href="http://www.oldversion.com/" target="_blank">http://www.oldversion.com/</a> and download your older piece of software.</p>
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		<title>VirtualBox3 vs. Parallels5</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:18:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Markus Zeller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Parallels Desktop virtualization is great, and the update from 4 to 5 brings a lot new features. But there is one thing what makes me really angry: the price! Pricing In my humble opinion the price for this update &#8230; <a href="http://www.markuszeller.com/virtualbox3-vs-parallels5">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1490" style="margin: 8px;" title="Virtual Box" src="http://www.markuszeller.com/wp-content/uploads/guestadditions-300x241.png" alt="" width="300" height="241" />The <a href="http://www.parallels.com/de/products/desktop/" target="_blank">Parallels Desktop</a> virtualization is great, and the update from 4 to 5 brings a lot new features. But there is one thing what makes me really angry: the price!</p>
<h3>Pricing</h3>
<p>In my humble opinion the price for this update is very much to much. Some months ago, I just bought the update from 3 to 4. If the performance increases, then it is some bucks worth, but this time&#8230;</p>
<h3>The update</h3>
<p>They offered a free v5 trial for 30 days. Thanks, that&#8217;s great! But using that in makes your v4 operating systems converted to v5. Guess, what happens when the 30 days are over! Right, your VM&#8217;s are dead until you buy the update. There is no way back to 4, except for you made a copy of that images before. Ok, the installer warns about that, but is it fair, yet? Why is there no option, that a copy will be created by the installer itself?</p>
<h3>Alternatives</h3>
<p>Are there alternatives for OS X for another virtualization software? The first application I had in mind was <a href="http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/" target="_blank">VMWare Fusion</a>. They offer a free trial, too. So I went out to their website to grab my personal copy. Good thought, but that was only a idea. They force you to fill out forms with lots of your personal data. That is not the way I want to get a free trial!</p>
<p>So I went further and remembered some news I read about <a href="http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads" target="_blank">Sun&#8217;s Virtual Box</a>. That is the way how it should be! Free download, free ware, full of rich features and available on Windows, OS X and Linux.</p>
<h3>Virtual Box</h3>
<p>First of all, I must tell you, that I am very impressed of that piece of software! It is tiny, easy to use and brings all functionality you need and supports all notable kinds of modern OS in 32 bit and 64 bit!</p>
<h3>Approaching</h3>
<p>In this article I will compare Virtual Box against Parallels 5. I tested several features and performance. The operating systems used are Windows 7 in 32 bit and Debian 5 in 32 bit &#8211; both given 32 MB Video RAM with activated 3D and 2D accerlation. Main memory is set to 256 MB.</p>
<h3>Performance</h3>
<p>Performance and speed is really important when using virtual machines &#8211; at least for me. And the winner is: Virtual box! It does not slow down my Mac with 2 GB RAM like Parallels does. It even starts and shuts down very much faster and it seems my harddisk is not tortured that much. Virtual Box is optimized to run multiple instances, and I think that brings the speed.</p>
<p>With performance at all I mean</p>
<ul>
<li>Pausing, resuming and sleep like hibernation</li>
<li>Harddisk usage</li>
<li>RAM usage left for Host OS</li>
<li>OSX response (keyboard, mouse, usage of apps)</li>
<li>Guest OS response (keyboard, mouse, usage of apps)</li>
</ul>
<h3>What&#8217;s missing?</h3>
<p>Virtual Box is not that rich as Parallels, but here is a list of features which are <strong>not yet</strong> available in Virtual Box:</p>
<ul>
<li>Drag and Drop files between Host and Guest OS, but you can share folders!</li>
<li>Application folder of Guest OS integrated in Host OS.</li>
<li>No bootcamp partitions.</li>
<li>Seamless mode (guest OS window integration into host OS) only works on primary monitor!</li>
<li>Keyboard input is interpreted as &#8220;PC&#8221;-keyboard.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Conclusion</h3>
<p>The speed of Virtual Box is much better, at least on my hardware. I never used bootcamp and I am a little bit sad, that the seamless mode does not work on my secondary monitor. Also I am missing the drag and drop, but get used to the shared folders quickly.</p>
<p>Parallels got deinstalled!</p>
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		<title>Closed lid with open eyes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Markus Zeller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A MacBook can close it&#8217;s lid and then it is going to sleep. On some situations it could be useful your Mac would stay awake instead of using it magic power LED hypnotizing you. One of those moments could be &#8230; <a href="http://www.markuszeller.com/closed-lid-with-open-eyes">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://semaja2.net/insomniaxinfo"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1489" style="margin: 8px;" title="InsomniaX" src="http://www.markuszeller.com/wp-content/uploads/InsomniaX.png" alt="" width="193" height="258" /></a>A MacBook can close it&#8217;s lid and then it is going to sleep. On some situations it could be useful your Mac would stay awake instead of using it magic power LED hypnotizing you.</p>
<p>One of those moments could be</p>
<ul>
<li>A party and your MacBook is serving some music, but you don&#8217;t want anybody to touch it and to see what is on your screen.</li>
<li>It is bedtime and you want to listen to <a href="http://www.itunes.com/podcast?id=323879840">my podcast</a> or some other music and set your sleep timer, but the display is too bright.</li>
<li>You have a time intensive task like defragmenting harddrive, backup or downloading and want to prevent dust getting on the keys.</li>
<li>The screen is no longer used while watching a movie on an external monitor.</li>
<li>Just you want it!</li>
</ul>
<p>A tiny freeware tool called <a href="http://semaja2.net/insomniaxinfo">InsomniaX</a> puts some matches into the menubar to simply enable or disable the sleep functions.</p>
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		<title>Chrome Browser for Mac</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:35:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Markus Zeller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a Webkit lover, of course I love the Safari browser. It is fast, reliable, powerful and easy to use. I wish Firefox would use its engine, but there are lot of discussions in the Mozilla forums, that it will &#8230; <a href="http://www.markuszeller.com/chrome-browser-for-mac">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<p>As a <a href="http://webkit.org/">Webkit</a> lover, of course I love the <a href="http://www.apple.com/safari/">Safari</a> browser. It is fast, reliable, powerful and easy to use. I wish <a href="http://www.mozilla-europe.org/">Firefox</a> would use its engine, but there are lot of discussions in the Mozilla forums, that it will remain using the Gecko engine.</p>
<blockquote><p>From a technical perspective, Gecko is now very solid and no longer lags behind WebKit.</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: right;"><a href="http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2008/09/mozilla-committed-to-gecko.ars">Arstechnica</a></p>
<p><strong>Alternatives</strong></p>
<p>The only alternative I know what uses Webkit is the <a href="http://www.google.com/chrome">Google&#8217;s Chrome</a>. Unfortunately, they say, a Mac version is not available, yet. <strong>But there is!</strong> You can download the <a href="http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/eula_dev.html?dl=mac">developer edition</a>, which is a completely compiled and ready-to-use application. Install it by just dragging the icon to the Application folder like any other program.</p>
<p>After the first start it asks for importing bookmarks. So I did, and it works very well. The passwords are taken from <a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/">OS X</a>&#8216;s <em>Keychain Access</em> and you do not need to enter all your identifications, again.</p>
<p><strong>At the first look, compared to Safari</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>it looks a bit more stylish,</li>
<li>the preferences are easier to use,</li>
<li>performance feels better on loading pages, working on sites containing Flash objects,</li>
<li>the developer menu can be found at <em>View</em>, instead of a own menu column,</li>
<li>no need for an extra search bar, just type into the address field.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Unfortunately I am missing two features, but I can </strong><strong>shortly</strong><strong> live without:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Syncing the bookmarks with MobileMe or back to Safari,</li>
<li>the option to merge all windows together</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>What Safari does not have is</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>the function &#8220;New incognito window&#8221;.</li>
</ul>
<blockquote><p>Pages you view in this window won&#8217;t appear in your browser history or search history, and they won&#8217;t leave other traces, like cookies, on your computer after you close the incognito window.</p></blockquote>
<ul>
<li>opening every tab or window as a own thread
<ul>
<li>if one crashes, not all of the browser activity is lost,</li>
<li>if one gets unresponsive, you can work with all the others.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>jumping through search results initiated with <em><strong>CMD+F</strong></em>.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Conclusion</strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong> I am using it now for a several time. It works very stable and fast. The workflow is great, everything works fine so far. <strong><em>This my new default browser!</em></strong></p>
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		<title>G-Mail within Apple Mail</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:15:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Markus Zeller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you use a Google mail account? Then add your account into your Mail application and have no more need to manage your mails via the webmail interface. The webmailer indeed is quick and easy to use, but I like &#8230; <a href="http://www.markuszeller.com/g-mail-within-apple-mail">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you use a <a href="http://mail.google.com">Google mail</a> account? Then add your account into your Mail application and have no more need to manage your mails via the webmail interface. The webmailer indeed is quick and easy to use, but I like having my mails all together and searchable on my computer.</p>
<p>Take the following settings, to enable it:</p>
<blockquote><p>Incoming mail server: imap.gmail.com<br />
Outgoing mail server: smtp.gmail.com</p>
<p>Username: <strong><em>yourmail</em></strong>@gmail.com<br />
Password: <strong><em>yourpassword</em></strong></p></blockquote>
<p>You also may take these settings, even if you own a <em>googlemail.com</em> address.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1471" title="GMail" src="http://www.markuszeller.com/wp-content/uploads/gmail.jpg" alt="GMail" width="580" height="474" /></p>
<p>On OS X&#8217;s mail.app you will find an extra area on the left hand pane for your Google mail account.</p>
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		<title>Rebel EFI &#8211; OS X in danger of good reputation?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Psystar has released a product called Rebel EFI, allowing the installation of any operating system on almost any PC hardware. This software could be cutely used, to run the Apple&#8217;s OS X on a PC. Apple of course does not want this &#8230; <a href="http://www.markuszeller.com/rebel-efi-os-x-in-danger-of-good-reputation">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Psystar has released a product called <a href="http://www.psystar.com/rebel-efi-preview.html">Rebel EFI</a>, allowing the installation of any operating system on almost any PC hardware. This software could be cutely used, to run the Apple&#8217;s <a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/">OS X</a> on a PC.</p>
<p>Apple of course does not want this and sued several times against Psystar, because it is permitted and listed in the software agreement to run OS X on non-Apple-hardware.</p>
<p>A very required assumption for Rebel EFI enabling running OS X, seems to have a Intel processor, because since the release of Snow Leopard only Intel CPUs are supported.</p>
<p>On a Mac, hardware and software are the best friends and everything runs smooth. That is a proof and you can check this out by yourself in any store selling Apple products if you do not own one.</p>
<p>I am really afraid, that OS X may get a bad reputation from all those jealous PC users thinking their Windows OS and hardware is much better. They will run that on cheapest hardware and the smoothness of the OS X workflow is gone. Of course this is the wrong way and I am sure they will blame Apple of bad codings.</p>
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		<title>Zooom and position your windows perfectly</title>
		<link>http://www.markuszeller.com/zooom-and-position-your-windows-perfectly</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 10:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Markus Zeller</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/what-is-macosx/expose.html">Expos</p>
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		<title>Get your webcolor quickly</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:25:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Markus Zeller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When working on a website, I often use photos or other websites to get harmonic matching colors. Certainly, the color names can be taken, but sometimes it is better to use a RGB color value for more precision. Not every &#8230; <a href="http://www.markuszeller.com/get-your-webcolor-quickly">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When working on a website, I often use photos or other websites to get harmonic matching colors. Certainly, the color names can be taken, but sometimes it is better to use a RGB color value for more precision. Not every time I have a graphics program open, but I quickly want to pick the color code.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1456" title="Digital Color meter" src="http://www.markuszeller.com/wp-content/uploads/colormeter.jpg" alt="Digital Color meter" width="405" height="204" /></p>
<p>With OS X comes a handy tiny helper called <strong><em>DigitalColor Meter</em></strong>. You will find that in <strong><em>/Applications/Utilities/</em></strong>. You simply can set the wanted text output format and use <strong><em>Command+Shift+C</em></strong> to get the value into the Clipboard. The settings are autosaved, so on the next start you can continue as you are used to.</p>
<p>jmeds845b7</p>
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		<title>Quicktime 7 in Snow Leopard</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 08:54:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Markus Zeller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new Quicktime Player in Snow Leopard is totally reprogrammed. It brings a complete new interface and some innovative features where you needed some additional tools before. With that version Apple focuses to the average user with functions like trimming and &#8230; <a href="http://www.markuszeller.com/quicktime-7-in-snow-leopard">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="size-full wp-image-1450 alignright" style="margin: 8px;" title="Quicktime Player of Snow Leopard" src="http://www.markuszeller.com/wp-content/uploads/qt-new.png" alt="Quicktime Player of Snow Leopard" width="80" height="80" />The new <a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/technology/#quicktimex">Quicktime Player</a> in <a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/">Snow Leopard</a> is totally reprogrammed. It brings a complete new interface and some innovative features where you needed some additional tools before.</p>
<p>With that version <a href="http://www.apple.com">Apple</a> focuses to the average user with functions like trimming and uploading videos to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/deejayn4cer">Youtube</a>. This may look simple, but beware that cutting and converting has to be done <strong>before</strong> the upload can begin and now it runs totally by itself without your interactivity.</p>
<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1451" style="margin: 8px;" title="Quicktime Player 7" src="http://www.markuszeller.com/wp-content/uploads/qt7.png" alt="Quicktime Player 7" width="80" height="80" />Trimming was possible in the former versions, too, but not as easy as it is right now. Apple kindly kept the older Quicktime 7 Player and moved it into the <strong><em>/Applications/Utilities/</em></strong> folder. If it is not there for you, you may reinstall it from your Snow Leopard DVD.</p>
<p>I am lucky about that, because there are some mighty features I absolutely do not want to miss like exporting with tons of options and different playback speeds.</p>
<p>What do you think about the new Quicktime player and do you still use the <em>&#8220;old&#8221;</em> one?</p>
<p><strong><em>Image sources:</em></strong> Integrated Application icons by <a href="http://www.apple.com">Apple</a>.</p>
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		<title>New Eventbox coming up soon</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 07:07:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Markus Zeller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On a previous article I wrote some words about the Eventbox application. It was invented to merge social profile applications in just a single one for easy and quick management. The developers made already lots of changes and improvements. I &#8230; <a href="http://www.markuszeller.com/new-eventbox-coming-up-soon">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://thecosmicmachine.com/"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1443" title="Eventbox" src="http://www.markuszeller.com/wp-content/uploads/skitched-20090827-090316.jpg" alt="Eventbox" width="130" height="127" /></a>On a <a href="http://www.markuszeller.com/merge-them-all-together">previous article</a> I wrote some words about the <a href="http://thecosmicmachine.com/">Eventbox</a> application. It was invented to merge social profile applications in just a single one for easy and quick management.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://thecosmicmachine.com/">developers</a> made already lots of changes and improvements.</p>
<p>I do really appreciate that <strong>all</strong> of my suggestions and bug reports were taken seriously and I have received reasonable anwers to every of them. Fulsome praise!</p>
<p>The last thing I reported was answered with the comment that this issue is already been fixed in the current development build and contained the link to <a href="http://twitter.com/milend">Milen&#8217;s</a> article <a href="http://milen.tumblr.com/post/169697842/eventbox-progress-update">Eventbox Progress Update</a>.</p>
<p>If you are using <a href="http://thecosmicmachine.com/">Eventbox</a> already, you really should <a href="http://milen.tumblr.com/post/169697842/eventbox-progress-update">read it</a> carefully and look forward to the next release. The application will be almost completely rewritten and will contain tons of new innovative and must-have functions. It looks like a new release will come out in a few weeks.</p>
<p>Still beeing in the beta phase you can save some money on purchasing it. Even in this stage the application is worth any cent of it, so I recommend: get it now!</p>
<p><strong><em>Credits:</em></strong> Eventbox Logo taken from <a href="http://thecosmicmachine.com/images/eb_appicon.png">here</a></p>
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		<title>Win a &#8220;Record you&#8221; invitation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:33:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Markus Zeller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you want to win an invitation for the brand new Record You application? Be the first to place a comment. Record makes use of extremely efficient multi-core audio rendering, making the software very lightweight, even with large projects. Record&#8217;s &#8230; <a href="http://www.markuszeller.com/win-a-record-you-invitation">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1439" style="margin: 8px;" title="RecordYou" src="http://www.markuszeller.com/wp-content/uploads/RecordYou-1.jpg" alt="RecordYou" width="260" height="199" /></p>
<p>Do you want to <strong>win</strong> an invitation for the brand new <a href="http://www.recordyou.com/">Record You</a> application? Be the first to <a href="http://www.markuszeller.com/win-a-record-you-invitation#respond">place a comment</a>.</p>
<blockquote>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Record makes use of extremely efficient multi-core audio rendering, making the software very lightweight, even with large projects.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Record&#8217;s dynamic multi-core audio rendering improves performance without introducing any latency. It is future proof, making use of as many processors or processor cores as your operating system can handle.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Quoted from <a href="http://www.propellerheads.se/products/record/index.cfm?fuseaction=get_article&amp;article=tech-info">here</a></p>
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<p>You also may have a look at <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe7Iapsu_38&amp;feature">this video</a> demonstrating its key features:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe7Iapsu_38"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1440" title="recordvideo" src="http://www.markuszeller.com/wp-content/uploads/recordvideo.jpg" alt="recordvideo" width="500" height="303" /></a></p>
<p><strong>Credits:</strong> Picture taken from <a href="http://www.recordyou.com/">here</a>.</p>
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		<title>Boot from USB instead of DVD</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:39:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Markus Zeller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You do not want to burn a DVD or CD when installing a new operating system or running some maintenance tools? Me not, too! Espacially, when you want to install something large which normally requires an expensive dual layer DVD &#8230; <a href="http://www.markuszeller.com/boot-from-usb-instead-of-dvd">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You do not want to burn a DVD or CD when installing a new operating system or running some maintenance tools? Me not, too!</p>
<p>Espacially, when you want to install something large which normally requires an expensive dual layer DVD or even when no DVD drive is available at all, it makes sense to use a USB device. On a Mac, this can be a standard USB stick or an iPod having the appropriate capacity.</p>
<p>Also using a USB device is really fast und produces less noise.</p>
<p>Ok, here is my short step-by-step guide for you how to make it work:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong><em>Note:</em></strong> Doing that will erase <strong>ALL</strong> data on your media!</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>Step 1:</strong> Open the <em>Disk Utility</em> from the <em>Application / Utilities</em> folder and select your destination USB device. Then go to the &#8220;Partition&#8221; tab and change the scheme from &#8220;Current&#8221; to &#8220;1 Partition&#8221;.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1418" title="usbboot-1" src="http://www.markuszeller.com/wp-content/uploads/usbboot-1.jpg" alt="usbboot-1" width="580" height="443" /></p>
<p><strong>Step 2:</strong> Click the options to select the partition mode. To make it bootable on a Mac &#8220;GUID Partition Table&#8221; is required. Check this radio button and confirm with &#8220;ok&#8221;.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1419" title="usbboot-2" src="http://www.markuszeller.com/wp-content/uploads/usbboot-2.jpg" alt="usbboot-2" width="580" height="443" /></p>
<p><strong>Step 3:</strong> &#8220;Apply&#8221; the settings and confirm to &#8220;Partition&#8221;.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1420" title="usbboot-3" src="http://www.markuszeller.com/wp-content/uploads/usbboot-3.jpg" alt="usbboot-3" width="580" height="443" /></p>
<p><strong>Step 4:</strong> Finally, we need to select that image file to be placed on the USB device. This can be a DMG or ISO file. You can use the <em>Disk Utility</em> tool, to create such images from your DVDs. You can start the process by clicking on &#8220;Restore&#8221;.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong><em>Note</em></strong><em>:</em> Do <strong>NOT</strong> copy discs or any other media you are not allowed to!</p></blockquote>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1421" title="usbboot-4" src="http://www.markuszeller.com/wp-content/uploads/usbboot-4.jpg" alt="usbboot-4" width="580" height="443" /></p>
<p>Drop me a comment, if that guide helped you out.</p>
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		<title>Starting apps more than once</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:50:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Markus Zeller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When an application is running, it normally can not be started a second time. If you run it again from the dock, it will bring up the current running to the front. In some situations, it would be helpful to &#8230; <a href="http://www.markuszeller.com/starting-apps-more-than-once">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When an application is running, it normally can not be started a second time. If you run it again from the dock, it will bring up the current running to the front.</p>
<p>In some situations, it would be helpful to start it again &#8211; especially system applications like the network scanner.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1414" title="Instances" src="http://www.markuszeller.com/wp-content/uploads/instances.jpg" alt="Instances" width="518" height="450" /></p>
<p>With the help of <a href="http://www.markuszeller.com/pathfinder">Path Finder</a> it is no big deal to start a running application as much times as you need it, by just right-clicking on the app in process sidebar and selecting &#8220;<strong>new instance</strong>&#8220;.</p>
<p>With that way it is easy to manage some unique tasks as a mass task.</p>
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		<title>Auto-quit the printer queue</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 15:20:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Markus Zeller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The dock contain a large amount of icons and thanks to the scalability of OS X you can resize the dock bar to have them larger or smaller. I personally do prefer only having that applications in the dock which &#8230; <a href="http://www.markuszeller.com/auto-quit-the-printer-queue">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1406" style="margin: 8px;" title="Auto-Quit" src="http://www.markuszeller.com/wp-content/uploads/autoquit.jpg" alt="Auto-Quit" width="180" height="215" /></p>
<p>The dock contain a large amount of icons and thanks to the scalability of OS X you can resize the dock bar to have them larger or smaller.</p>
<p>I personally do prefer only having that applications in the dock which I am using every single day. Those who I do not need shall disappear.</p>
<p>The printer icon is one of them. When a print job is done, the icon will still remain there, and because I am printing quite rare this is annoying me to quit it manually.</p>
<p>There is a simple way out, by just activating the &#8220;Auto-Quit&#8221; option. Just rightclick the printer icon and enable it as shown in the screenshot above.</p>
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		<title>Running Virtual Machines from a USB stick</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 11:43:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Markus Zeller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since I got my 16 GB USB memory stick, which is a quite huge storage amount, I got the idea to make the best out of it and do a performance test. Many disc accesses are usually done with a &#8230; <a href="http://www.markuszeller.com/running-virtual-machines-from-a-usb-stick">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Since I got my 16 GB <a href="http://www.markuszeller.com/?p=1400">USB memory stick</a>, which is a quite huge storage amount, I got the idea to make the best out of it and do a performance test.</p>
<p>Many disc accesses are usually done with a Virtual Machine, so I put a blank <a href="http://www.parallels.com/download/desktop/">Parallels</a> Windows XP virtual machine image to the stick, hoping the speed would be fantastic.</p>
<p>But, the hope still remains a hope. The speed is just OK, and absolutely <strong>not</strong> faster than directly starting from a harddisk. The USB probing sais 480Mb/sec which is a maximum of 6 MB per second, but the average speed I could measure in fact is 5.2 MB per second.</p>
<p>That is absolutely too slow and the conclusion for me is, that flash memory is only really fast if it will provided over the S-ATA port.</p>
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		<title>SanDisk U3 Cruzer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:13:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Markus Zeller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My dad made me a very nice gift. It is the SanDisk USB-memory stick U3 Cruzer with a capacity of 16 GB. I was testing it on his PC laptop and it worked fine and damn fast. A very nice &#8230; <a href="http://www.markuszeller.com/sandisk-u3-cruzer">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My dad made me a very nice gift. It is the <a href="http://www.sandisk.com">SanDisk</a> USB-memory stick <a href="http://www.sandisk.com/Products/Item(2573)-SDCZ8-016G-A75-Extreme_Cruzer_Contour16GB_USB_Flash_Drive.aspx">U3 Cruzer</a> with a capacity of 16 GB. I was testing it on his PC laptop and it worked fine and damn fast.</p>
<p>A very nice feature is the slider, where you can pull the USB-connector inside the stick, so that you can not lose the cap anymore.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC2CRovE40w"><img src="http://www.markuszeller.com/wp-content/uploads/u3cruzer.jpg" alt="u3cruzer" title="u3cruzer" width="580" height="348" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1401" /></a></p>
<p>When connecting it my Mac&#8217;s <a href="http://www.markuszeller.com/?p=925">USB hub</a> I saw a very nice suprise. The USB LED is not just flashing or blinking, it is fading the same way the <a href="http://www.apple.com/imac/">Mac&#8217;s</a> power LED does, when ready. Have look at my shortly recorded <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC2CRovE40w">video</a>.</p>
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