A friend of mine contacted me recently with a problem that he could not figure out on his own. He discovered that two hidden folders had been created on his USB flash drive. One folder was named .spotlight-V100 while the other was named .trashes. This puzzled him as he was certain that they were not [...]
Google Chrome Builds For Mac And Linux Appear
The Google Chrome development team has released long awaited public developer builds of the Google browser for the Apple Macintosh and Linux operating systems. Up until now it was only possible to get most of the functionality by downloading third party builds of the web browser. The developer builds of Google Chrome can be downloaded [...]
Ghacks Christmas Giveaway: Crossover
Fourteenth day of the Ghacks Christmas Giveaway. Mainly software programs for Windows were handed out in the last two weeks. This changes today as we managed to get our hands on 10 licenses for Crossover Linux Pro and 10 licenses for Crossover Mac Pro. This was one of the products that some of you recommended [...]
Dressing your Mac up for Christmas
Whilst I realise this website has a Linux and Windows-focus, I am (for better or for worse) a OS X user. As Christmas approaches, houses and offices are often adorned with decorations and there is no reason a Mac can’t be too.
In Northern England, we have been ‘fortunate’ enough to have had quite a bit [...]
