Check out these USB/eSATA/FireWire/FireWire 800 hard drive “Stage racks” also a similar gadget on Amazon.
Just as long as you don’t knock it over. Fortunately they include weights in the base. Unfortunately this increases the shipping cost!
Month: May 2008
A little knowledge base can be a dangerous thing
- Optical drives aren’t recognised in Vista after installing iTunes 7. But it’s ok, you can fix it by editing the registry!
- The call it “Time Machine” because when you run Time Machine off your install DVD it thinks it’s on Pacific Standard Time
- Big list of keyboard shortcuts. I had forgotten you could hit the control key whilst using command-shift-4 to get the screengrab on the clipboard. Also didn’t know you could command-click the window toolbar button to get different views.
- Troubleshooting procedure for your mac not starting up in 10.3.9
- How to use your iPod as a storage drive. Remember, if you use FAT32 you won’t be able to put files larger than 4Gb onto it!
- How to troubleshoot locked files
- The New User’s Guide to the iPod shuffle (put your right foot in, take your right foot out…)
- You need to use shift-control-option to reset the SMC on your MacBook Air
- You can get the MacBook Air DVD or CD sharing software here
- A diagram of the MacBook Pro’s ports. Omitting the Firewire 800 port?
- To change your default Mail or Web Browser you need to use Safari or Mail, even if you’re not using them. Because since InternetConfig went away Apple doesn’t know where to put these things.
Get sponsorship from Apple Australia or New Zealand
There’s a web form to fill out if you would like sponsorship from Apple Australia or New Zealand (presumably for some worthwhile cause like giving free iPhones to the underprivileged).
Fink tools for Mac hardware hackers
Mikey Sklar lists some software tools available via the fink packaging system for hardware developers using Macs .
Win a 24 carat gold plated iPhone
If you want to trade in your mobile number (and no doubt some privacy) for a chance to win a 24 carat gold plated iPhone you can do so here.
Apple to pay for sparking power adapters
The LA Times reports that as a result of a class action suit filed in 2006 Apple will pay US$25 to US$79 to customers who bought a power adaptor to replace a faulty one. This affects adaptors for PowerBooks and iBooks. Presumably some variant of the refund will be available in Australia, without having to ship the things to the US by the suitcase-full 🙂
Wii!
If you want to use your Nintendo Wii remote (Wiimote) with your Mac (via Bluetooth) (perhaps because you liked Tony Stark’s movie UI and a Wii is a cheaper way to get accelerometer gear 🙂 check out
- DarwiinRemote
- The Wiinstrument for use with MIDI and/or Garageband.
- Remote Buddy
For the more programmatically inclined there’s
- WiiremoteJ
- Wiimote Simple (an open source Java library)
- WiiJuce
MacHeads the movie
It seems that it an effort to cash in on Mac fans there’s now a “Macheads” movie. Filming the extreme mac fans so that the Mac fans will comment about how extreme they are, and the non-Mac fans will comment about how all Mac users are obsessed nutters.
Installing clamav-0.93 on Mac OS X
If you’ve got the latest Apple Developer tools installed, you’ll notice that attempting to ./configure the clamav-0.93 package doesn’t work because of a gcc compiler bug. The way I found around this is to “fink install gcc43”, then retry the configure command after having set the CC to be /sw/bin/gcc-4 and then you can make and make install as per usual.
iMovie ’08 period
 Don’t use periods in your iMovie ’08 project names otherwise they may not display anything after the period, or may display as a folder. I thought the reason we used Macs was to get away from this sort of thing?