Today, while taking some shots of items for a post with my iPhone I needed to transfer them across to my Mac for some sizing, scaling, and prep for loading up to this blog. My goto app is ImageCapture.app on the Mac which lets me quickly see my iOS photos, select what I want to…
Category Archives: Apple
Macbook Air 11 – The Last Ones
I’ve had a MBA 11″ since 2011 (MacBookAir4,1) and I’ve never been able to find any other laptop that had such an unbeatable combination of size, speed, flexibility, and utility. My 11 has been amazing and my go-to mac (I also have a 13 and 15 MBPs between work and home) for most things, but…
WOMBAT
I spent some good money and time getting my SE/30 uplifted and retrofitted for modern use. Both the motherboard, analog board and power-supply have been recapped, it has 32M RAM installed and a SCSI to CF adapter to ensure quiet operation and no surprise disk failures. The one failure I encountered was the keyboard and…
Macbook
The MacBook is an incredible piece of engineering technology. This one is sitting on the MacBook Pro it’s replacing- after three years. 13†vs 12†and it’s more powerful and has more storage. The same amount of ram however. The size difference is astonishing…
Stop Safari from showing Annoying Frequently Visited Sites
This is way, super annoying. Every time I want to drag a site down into the bookmarks this gets in the way. http://apple.stackexchange.com…
Mac OSX 10.10 and SCSI
Update 2017: 10.12 – Sierra broke the SCSI drivers and so ends the tales of SCSI and Atto on my Mac. Nothing I could do could get them to load. At some point I’ll revert the Mac back to 10.11 and use the SCSI if I ever need to read any of my tapes. Update:…
Apple Mini Yosemite Super Laggy – Fix
My mini is a 2011 i5 with Radeon graphics. Most of my work is on an external rail via thunderbolt, but the system has always been a little laggy to me. I work on Macbook pros and MacBook Airs (new, with flash drives) at work, and the mini has never been as quick and responsive…
Jeff vs Steve
The ultimate 1987 Face Off  …
Android Still Sucks at 4.3
When Android 4.3 API18 came out I pulled my old Nexus 7 out of the drawer, charged it, let it update to 4.3.18 and tried to use it for the next three days, leaving my iPad mini in the drawer instead. Â What I found out was: Android OS still sucks unbelievably bad. It’s kinda…
Dashboard Open Sourced on Github
 The Author of the seminal Dashboad for NewtOS has released it to the world on GitHub. There is a great read there on Github about the process. There is also a nice review about Dashboard that I came across if you are not familiar with what it did…
iCloud Safari Syncing Sucks Balls
iCloud Safari syncing just stopped worked about 3 weeks ago for one of my computers, and I cannot make it work again, I’ve clear and clear and re-synced each of my computers and iPhone. Finally, I just gave up and use Dropbox now. Â Just move Library/Safari over to Dropbox somewhere, and create a symlink…
Save As… for Mountain Lion
This post has saved my bacon numerous times as I’ve installed Mountain Lion on systems:  http://www.tuaw.com/2012/07/29/get-save-as-back-on-mountain-lions-file-menu-easily-and-without/  Having Save As… is just a necessary part of how I work…
iPhone 2G
I finally got around to taking a look at my original iPhone – the 2G. I used it for about 2 years, when I got the 3GS the nannie took it and spilled apple juice on it (killing it). It sat in a drawer for years. I pulled it out and took it apart. I…
OSX Mountain Lion and Java
Mountain Lion doesn’t ship with a java jre or jdk. And it removes the Apple one that was working in Lion. Installing the latest Apple sanctioned Lion Java Update results in exceptions. [Update July 29th – it seems there is an jre from apple now that will auto-install] Â Nothing yet from Apple, but don’t…
Nexus 7 and Apple Bluetooth Keyboard
Not much to say here, other than it works great, however I had a real hard time figuring out how to pair it. They key is to put the keyboard in Pairing mode, then navigate on the N7: Settings/Wireless & Networking/Bluetooth. Make sure BT toggeled on, then you have to touch it (touch the Bluetooth…
PowerMac G5 and LACP
I’ve been playing around recently with backups, trying to get them going again for my data. I’m moving the backups to my oldest Mac, a G5 Metal Tower. I purchased a gig ethernet card for it and since it comes with built-in gig I wanted to setup LACP with it. LACP will bond the two…
Plex vs. XMBC on AppleTV
So now that XMBC is available for AppleTV2 it’s time to compare it to Plex. I’ve played around with them for the past few days and can say that: Plex is worth the extra complexity. I’ve been told (never having used XBMC) that Plex was ‘just a port’ of it, so why not use XBMC…
New Jailbreak tool designed for AppleTV
Looks like FireCore has just released Seas0nPass– a app that is targeted towards jailbreaking just the AppleTV 2nd generation. It doesn’t do anything more than Pwnagetool and usbmux,and it doesn’t give you un-tehered jb, but it looks like it helps provide a clean easy way to jb and boot your ATV quickly and without out…
Ultimate Guide to Plex9 on AppleTV 2G with 4.2.1
Update on Jan 12: You should use the SeasOnPass app from fireCore — it does exactly what I outline below, only much more quickly and easily. After a few days of screwing around with a new AppleTV 2G that came from Apple with 4.2.1 pre-installed (so no going back to older firmware) and reading numerous…
Jailbreaking AppleTV 2 with iOS 4.2.1
The key information is that PwnageTool dosen’t have a release for 4.2.1 as of today (December 29th.). If you buy a AppleTV today you get iOS 4.2.1 on it. Go here to funkyspacemonkey.com for the directions on how to make Pwonage work. * Get the right ATV FW version here at iClairified Hardware: MicroUSB: http://www.cablestogo.com/product.asp?cat_id=1507&sku=27363#…
Jailbreaking AppleTV? You Need iTunes 10.1
Get it from this link: http://appldnld.apple.com/iTunes10/061-9530.20101112.MSakc/iTunes10.1.dmg…
Reserved an iPad?
I reserved mine, now I’m worried that it’s going to be chaos trying to get into the local Apple Store on the 3rd and pick it up. Update: 120,000 pre-orders? Insanity indeed. Follow the numbers from the source: Deagol’s AAPL Model…
iPad Fail
Note to self: don’t browse to a flash-embedded page in Apple iPad demo…
Desktop G5 Rebooting
This is driving me nuts. I’ve had this G5 (single cpu, 1.6G) for a few months, and now it’s started rebooting randomly for no apparent reason. I finally looked in the logs today and found the culprit: Jul 23 18:56:31 localhost kernel: ApplePMU::PMU FORCED SHUTDOWN, CAUSE = -122 Googling “PMU FORCED SHUTDOWN, CAUSE “ gave…
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