Archive for the ‘apple’ Category
Wednesday, April 14th, 2010 |
I some times feel like a fool, why would one wonder, well I tend to buy the software I use, even the more expensive parts.
Now there is a wast amount of good freeware around, but not all of it always working (for example Adium seams to crash 2 – 3 times a day, which is a partly known issue, but no one have come around to fix it yet).
Now there is a hugh issue with Apple Mice, they are slow, like dead slow, actually more than dead slow. And until recently the only way to get them moving was to use USBOverDrive, which unfortunatly will turn a Magic Mouse into a two button mouse, no scrolling….
Now I’ve been visiting the home page for USBOverDrive every 1 to 3 weeks over the last months, even send the author an email for information about an upgrade (which hopefully will support the Magic Mouse), but nada, nothing… the last time the homepage was updated was on the 5th of November 2009.
Now I have a licens to some software (I did pay for it) which does not work with my mouse. Good for me that Magic Prefs actually is working, but I liked USBOverDrive more.
technorati tags: Apple Mice, USBOverDrive, Magic Prefs
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Thursday, March 11th, 2010 |
One of the nice things about MacHeist is that you pay a small amount of money and you get a fair select of Software.
The last bundle (as they call it) included ‘MacJournal’ which I’m using to write this – I always like offline tools to online tools (not depending on an internet connection).
In general a MacHeist bundle is every from $19.95 to somewhat more, mostly you’ll end up with a selection of software which cost many times more than what you paid.
technorati tags: MacHeist
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Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
So I have this MacMini as a mediacenter PC, which is working and I don’t really have any problems with it, except that once in a while I want to be able to surf the web, or write an email without having to get out of the sofa.
For years I’ve used US keyboards, and don’t really like to use something else, so I went to my local apple shop to order a Apple Wireless Keyboard, with US layout. After 6 weeks (yes, it took 6 weeks for them to provide me with this information) I was told that this would not be possible, and there was no way that they could sell one of these to me. They suggested that I should contact Apple Netherlands, but they doubted that anything would come out of it.
After a bit of research I did find out that it was possible to get one, if I would buy a 27″ iMac, which I found would be slightly too expensive just to get a keyboard…..
But, I had read on some forums that some people sometimes send an email to Steve Jobs to complain about things in regards to Apple, and sometimes they get a positive response. So I sat down wrote an email pointing out that having to buy an 27″ iMac would be expensive, especially as I only wanted the keyboard.
Today I got a phone call from Apple telling me that I now can order a US Wireless keyboard from Apple, even if I am in Europe!! Way to go, and it shows that sometimes contacting the right people gives you a positive result.
btw. if you live in The Netherlands you can order it from here
technorati tags: Apple Wireless Keyboard, Steve Jobs, Apple
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Monday, October 26th, 2009 |
So I “upgraded” my AppleTV (which have served me well for 2 years) to a new MacMini (kind of overkill, but hey one have to have fun).
After mocking around with for the whole weekend it is now working as it should, due to XBMC, and some scripts which stops iTunes from starting.
But as it’s sleeping when I’m not around, it would be nice to be able to wake it up when/if I need access it remotely.
If you like GUI’s there is WakeUp, if you like commandline there is wakelan.
Both work just nicely.
Now to make the thing sleep again, use AppleScript. Create a shell script with:
#!/bin/bash
osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to sleep'
Bingo, you can now wakeup your sleeping Mac, and put it back to sleep.
technorati tags: wakelan, AppleScript, wakeonland
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2009 |
Back in February 2008 I wrote about my unhappyness about Apples inability to build a usefull PHP for Leopard (OSX 10.5), which forced more or less everyone who would be using PHP on Leopard to use a 3rd party build. And as far as I remember this was also the case with Tiger.
Now finally after years of waiting Apple have finally decided to compile PHP with GD (graphics manipulation library), enabled.
GD Support => enabled
GD Version => bundled (2.0.34 compatible)
GIF Read Support => enabled
GIF Create Support => enabled
JPEG Support => enabled
libJPEG Version => 6b
PNG Support => enabled
libPNG Version => 1.2.37
WBMP Support => enabled
XBM Support => enabled
One can say that Apple actually delivers, but why did it have to take years…..
technorati tags: PHP, GD, Apple
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Thursday, July 23rd, 2009 |
There is a small issue with the “default” keyboard setup in OSX X11 (Leopard), after having had this issue for some time I finally decided that I needed to have this fixed.
And found a post which pointed to “/usr/X11/share/X11/xkb” as being the issue, and yes after renaming it:
# sudo mv /usr/X11/share/X11/xkb /usr/X11/share/X11/xkb.orig
Everything is working…. grrr
technorati tags: keyboard, OSX, X11, xkb
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Monday, July 13th, 2009 |
Just a quick question, did you unlock your iPhone?
If you can answer yes to the above, then do not buy any Push Notification Application, as it seams that Apple is blocking these phones from receiving notifications – more here
Now how about the phones bought in Italy, or Belgium which already are unlocked, but are used on non-approved carriers by Apple, will they work, or is it the “activate” thing one should do in iTunes which is the whole secret to this…
One day someone might figure out how this works….
technorati tags: iPhone, Push Notification Application
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