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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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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