Looks like Mediafour’s MacDrive 8 will support Windows 7. The MacDrive8 beta is already available for you to download.
This is great news for video editors like myself who couldn’t wait and already migrated everything over the Windows 7. The only thing missing for me was MacDrive.
Click here to download the MacDrive 8 beta for Windows 7
Note: there is a big difference between HFS Explorer and MacDrive. The former is a very basic utility that lets you open up HFS formatted hard drives and copy (“extract”) files to your PC. It doesn’t work the other way around and you can’t use it to, say, edit directly off of the HFS drives.
MacDrive allows your PC to see HFS formatted drives to be seen just like any other hard drive. You can edit straight off of those kind of drives with Premiere Pro, Avid, Vegas etc. if you wanted to.
Windows 7 Beta
Reminder: if you’re using the Windows 7 beta your computer will begin shutting down every two hours beginning today, June 1st 2009.
If you haven’t already, go ahead and download the Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) now.
Bing.com
Also on the Microsoft front, their new search engine, Bing.com is now live. I’m impressed so far, the layout and suggestions are excellent, the speed is incredible. We’ll see how that pans out for them.
Why this Matters
Right out of the gate Bing.com (stupid name) is already a very strong contender as the next serious Google competitor. This matters to you if you are running web sites or doing any type of SEO work because if Bing keeps it up and gains momentum you need to start working on “optimizing” for it too.
Don’t freak out just yet but keep Bing.com in mind and start reading up on how it works and how you could take advantage of it.
- at May 31, 2009
- by Kroy
- in How To
So you’re on Internet Explorer 8 and click a link that’s supposed to bring up your email client (Outlook, Thunderbird etc.) and email something to whoever the “mailto:” link was set to.
But instead of your mail client popping up you get an error message stating something to the effect that your mail client isn’t defined.
Here is a step by step guide of how you quickly set your favorite mail client as default email program in Internet Explorer 8.
Moving to a new machine? Maybe moving from Windows Vista or XP to Windows 7 and you want to take all your emails with you? You’ll want to move your Thunderbird account including passwords and emails, right? Sure you do.
Since at the time of this writing Mediafour’s MacDrive still doesn’t work with Windows 7 I thought it’s a good idea to let you know that you can access Mac-formatted hard drives via a free utility called HFSExplorer.
It’s not as easy to use as MacDrive but it’s free and it gets the job done. You will be able to move files from your Mac formatted drive over to your Windows machine but probably won’t be able to work with it like you would with MacDrive, ie use, for example, Premiere Pro to access the drive directly.
STEPS
1) Install HFS Explorer (download it here)
2) Once installed, open up HFS Explorer, go to FILE > Load File System from Device
3) From the pop up select Autodetect, or select the device (= harddrive) yourself.
4) It should open up a window of your Mac formatted drive now.
5) Select the folder(s) you want to copy and click Extract
6) Select the folder on your Windows machine you want the files copied to
If it asks you if you want to follow symbolic links click select No
HFS Explorer should now copy your files to your Windows machine. Make sure you close our HFS Explorer before removing the external hard drive.
Hope this helps.
