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Blackberry Desktop Software Released for Mac OS X

Friday, October 2, 2009

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Earlier today, RIM released Blackberry Desktop Software for Mac (10.5.5+ required). It lets you sync your iTunes music with your Blackberry, sync your contacts and appointments with “popular Mac applications,” add/remove apps, and transfer data between your Mac and BB. This 26 meg app is nice, but RIM needs to get going on a Mac port [...]

Sharing Files Locally Without a Crossover Cable on OS X

Thursday, October 2, 2008

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Mac OS X is capable of intelligently detecting whether a cat5 cable is connected to a network device or to another PC. When connected to another PC, it will (digitally) flip the pins to “emulate” a cat5 crossover cable. Here’s an example on how to share files between a Macbook and another box (XP, Linux etc). [...]