So I am very excited to be attending Macworld 2009, and I wanted to offer an opportunity to anyone who wants to meet up. If you have any questions you want to ask about Project Appletree and its products and services, or just want to hang out and grab a coffee. Shoot me an email. Read More...

I am glad to say that Flipside 2.0 has been released. This version was completely rewritten from the ground up. It has a brand new, cleaner user interface along with added support for target mode and netboot. Flipside now scans all connected devices to your computer for bootable devices. But if what you are looking isn’t found by Flipside, you can manually choose your device. Another great new feature is keychain support so you no longer need to type in the administrative password each time you want to use Flipside.
I am open to hearing your thoughts on the new version good or bad so feel free to send me an email. Read More...

Tags: flipside

Hey Everyone,
I added a new section to Project Appletree website. The new section is articles! Everyone loves articles right?? Anyways, I started with two articles, and they are boot camp centric. The frist one is sysprep basics and the other one is how to create a single bootcamp image that works across several Macintosh models. Check them out, and let me know if you have any questions. Read More...

Tags: boot camp, bootcamp, imaging

I am proud to annouce the release of a brand new application called “Flipside”. Get to the flipside of your Mac with Flipside. This easy to use and quick application helps you get to Boot Camp worry free. It will automatically find your bootable Windows partition and reboot your Mac into it without changing your default startup disk. For more info, click the link. Flipside Read More...

Tags: flipside

One issue that I have noticed with creating an image for boot camp for multible Macs, is the trackpad does not work when you image a different model that the image wasn’t orginally created on. One fix is to uninstall and reinstall the bootcamp software, which I find doesn’t work all the time. There is another way to fix it which is a bit quicker. Basically you have to install the generic Microsoft drivers first, then install the apple drivers. Here is how to do so, granted there may be other ways, maybe some easier than this way, but you get the point. Read More...

Tags: bootcamp, trackpad, driver, boot camp

A Quick Open Letter,
I will be attending Macworld coming up next month and am really looking forward to it! If anyone out there will be attending also and want to meet up and talk business, talk Mac, or just grab a cup of coffee, shoot me an email. Thanks.

-Chad Barraford

Tags: macworld

Show or Hide Hidden Files
Summary:
This tiny app toggles between Finder showing or hiding hidden files.

Instructions:
1. Download the "Show or Hide Hidden Files" application
2. Launch "Show or Hide Hidden Files.app"
3. If prompted, select whether you want to show or hide hidden files.

How it works:
The app checks your finder plist file for the current state of the parameter "AppleShowAllFiles". If its true, it set it to false and restarts the Finder, and vice versa if its false. If parameter doesn't exists, the app asks the user what they want to do and does that.

Tags: Hidden Files, Finder

Summary:
A bug introduced in 10.4.10 causes lots of question marks in the dock. This droplet app fixes the dock plist to not have any question marks. Apply this app to your user template dock plist to fix it in your image, but can be applied to a specific user.

Clear Dock Data Alias Read More...

Tags: dock, plist, 10.4.10, bug fix, data alias

Summary:
Those of you who deploy parallels as part of your image, may find a problem where every mac has the same mac address. Ask any network administrator, this is not a good thing. This quick tool fixes this problem pre image deployment or post.

Reset Parallels Mac Address Read More...

Tags: mac address, parallels