ANDRÉ AULICH

Digital Asset Management & Workflow Automation

Archive: January, 2004


Information on Mac OS X Hacks now online

If you are interested in topics for advanced Mac users like home directory on an iPod, synchronizing user data between multiple Macs, using your mobile phone as a remote control, etc., then go to my new page called Mac OS X Hacks.
Please be aware that these

Home on iPod

If you regularly work with more than one Mac, you might look for a solution to keep your data in sync.

The most obvious way might be to use a server-based home directory if you own a Mac OS X Server. Yet, if you use this concept, each Mac has to

Bluetooth mobile phone as remote control and GPRS modem

Here you’ll find some hints where to find more information on how to use your Bluetooth mobile phone as a remote control and a GPRS modem for your Mac.

Mobile phone as remote control
To use your mobile phone as a remote control for programs like DVD Player, VLC, Keynote, or

Reading, editing, and writing Word files with TextEdit

If you have to read or write Word documents from time to time, but you don’t want to buy Microsoft’s application, you can choose between several shareware solutions.
Yet, Apple’s preinstalled TextEdit can do the job, too:
Just open any Word document by dragging it on the TextEdit icon. TextEdit automatically opens