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 21, 2008

OS X on Linux PC

Categorie: Tech — Tags: , , , , — Bise, 8:07 pm

There are many people working really hard to run os x on no-mac computers: the osx86project, a company who is selling pre-installed os x in PC hardware, or a company that just announced to sell usb dongles which boots EFI.
Some people guess that the only reason that apple isn’t suing these companies for their commercial [...]

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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 9, 2008

Java 6 for 32 bit Intel Mac, Power Pc and OS X 10.4

Categorie: Tech — Tags: , , , — Bise, 6:06 pm

The last Java 6 update by apple only runs on intel macs with 64 bit processors (core 2 duo) and OS 10.5 intalled. Developers working on a 32 bit mac could check this open source project: http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/static/soylatte
” SoyLatte is a functional, X11-based port of the FreeBSD Java 1.6 patchset to Mac OS X Intel machines. [...]

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May 3, 2008

Mac-Specific Search via Google apps

Categorie: Tech — Tags: , , — Fraehnk, 3:03 pm

All of us have run into a problem on a Windows computer. So what you do is to just type a little description of the problem and Google takes care of the rest. Different story for Mac users: we often need to include a little context in our search—instead of typing a query like text [...]

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Mac Laptop Power Cord Tip

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

No big fan of the bulky Mac power-cord? Me neither. How about a Playstation-cord?

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Who would have thought this?

Categorie: Tech — Tags: , , — Fraehnk, 2:55 pm

Well… me of course:
Perfect Pair: PowerPC and Linux.

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