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…

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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…

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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]   Nothing yet from Apple, but don’t…

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The Real Guide To Rooting The Nexus 7

I’ve looked over the Google results for rooting your Nexus7 and they are all a joke. None that I read would actually work on a Nexus7, so clearly the people posting are just looking for hits. Most of them were copypasta from one of 3 original guides. This is the real deal. I got a…

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Newton Connection to MacOSX

One of the hardest things I’ve ever tried to do was connect a Newton to an OSX host. Between getting ADB connections to USB, and OSX with and without Classic so far it’s been impossible. At least not connecting them has zero impact on my life, so this can take as long as it needs…

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Back with some more postings

Now that the site is back up, I’ve just pulled down MarsEdit version 3 to use with posting to the site. I’ll admit that a tumblr site seems tempting now, with all the issues you get with your own WP site. But I’ll see how this goes…

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Site was hacked and forwarding elsewhere!

Something hacked the WP and inserted some code that was forwarding most pages to a scam site. I found this wonderful page that Dan wrote: http://danhilltech.tumblr.com/post/18085864093/if-you-get-eval-base64-hacked-on-wordpress-dreamhost which has a great little ruby script which cleaned up my pages and got the site back…

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Installing XBMC on AppleTV 2

Assuming that you have already JB’ed, and you already have the akward repo installed…. $ echo “deb http://mirrors.xbmc.org/apt/atv2 ./” > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xbmc.list $ apt-get update $ apt-get -y install org.xbmc.xbmc-atv2 It will install and reboot Lowtide……

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AppleTV 2 and DFU

Don’t try and use one of the old white remotes. It just won’t work. I found out the hard way when I misplaced my metal remote and wanted to JB my ATV2. The white ones will control the ATV2 fine, but they will not let it enter DFU…

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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…

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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…

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Upgrade ATV2 Plex to 0.6.6

What I had to to get 0.6.6: it’s worth it, since 0.6.6 has resume-on-watch, and trick play now works for forwards and reverse tricks! $ – shell commands I entered from the JB’ed ATV2. [ ] – output from the commands. The biggest deal was removing the symlink for Plex’s frappliance. I suppose if I…

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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…

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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#…

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iPad – custom wallpaper from web

Want to change your desktop wallpaper to something you just saw on the web? It’s pretty easy with the iPad. Use safari to navigate to a page that has your image. Touch the image and choose to save it. Then go back Home and touch desktop and wallpapers. Now you will see a folder of…

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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…

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