October 24, 2008

apple magsafe stuck pin repair party

Categorie: Tech — Tags: , , , , , , , , , — Bise, 7:30 pm

There are several known issues with the apple MBP power supply. Some of these failures are caused by the bad construction of the MagSafe plug.
My power adapter has been working great for 3 years now, when it suddenly started to refuse to charge.
The bad thing is: The power supply itself is still working fine, it [...]

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October 4, 2008

Digging deep into quicksilver

Categorie: Tech, music — Tags: , , , , , , — Fraehnk, 2:16 am

Mac only: Here is a nice tutorial series of how mighty quicksilver is. The creator of this neat tool gave a talk at google, which is a nice introduction and general overview of the capabilities of quicksilver. My new personal favorite is the Abracadabra Plugin (see below at the bottom).

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September 17, 2008

Transform your PC into a Mac

Categorie: Tech — Tags: , , , , , , , , — Fraehnk, 8:09 am

This sounds to good to be true: Just plug in th EFI-X usb dongle into your motherboard and you are good to go installing Mac OS X Leopard on your PC to turn it into a Mac Pro.
Hot Link.

Bonus: The new Macbook Touch on the Oct. 14th Apple event.
Update: Here is the cheap alternative a [...]

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September 13, 2008

Weird keyboard mapping when using VNC

Categorie: Tech — Tags: , , , , , , , , — Fraehnk, 2:53 am

So i lately try to connect with my macbook to my Gentoo Linux PC in the office. Via SSH no problem, but when i tried to use a VNC tunnel i got the weirdest keyboard mapping ever and with that i couldnt type anything. That was very frustrating. It took me sometime until i found [...]

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July 11, 2008

Apple’s “Aperature” alternatives for Linux

Categorie: Tech — Tags: , , , , , , , , , — Fraehnk, 2:59 pm

“This experiment focuses mainly on Aperture and what tools, if any, exist for Ubuntu to replace my Aperture workflow with something cross-platform and open-source that I can use on Mac OS X and Ubuntu.”

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May 2, 2008

delete key on the macbook / pro

Categorie: misc — Tags: , , , , — Bise, 5:40 pm

Switchers form Windows to OS X get often frustrated by the lack of the delete key (forward delete) on the macbook/ macbook pro keyboard.
But hey, there it is!
You can’t see it? Well, there are a lot of glyphs that aren’t printed on the keyboard…
But this one is even not documented.
It’s: fn + backspace
tested only [...]

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Apple to the Core: Why Steve Jobs is buying PA Semiconductor

Categorie: Tech — Tags: , , , — Fraehnk, 2:38 am

Nice analysis by Robert X. Cringely:
“Apple this week bought a fabless chip company called PA Semiconductor and pundits far and wide are trying to explain the deal with broadly varying ideas, some of which are close but none seem to really understand what the deal is about. In the short term this acquisition means precisely [...]

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