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MacMini Tiger to Snow Leopard Upgrade

A friend has a MacMini, the first one with Intel CPU: 1.5Ghz Core Solo, 512Mb RAM and 60Gb hard drive and Tiger 10.4.11. Hard drive was full and computer was very slow. We decided to upgrade with a new...

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Youtube performance on PowerBook G4

My Apple PowerBook G4@866 Mhz can not handle youtube vidoes… when they are based on flash. However, go to the HTML 5 version of YouTube and performance is very reasonable.

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Make Xcode 3.2.6 gcc work

Apple did something smart around Xcode 3.2.6 – probably to make it easy to configure gcc to use different SDKs. But, before figuring out what happened, it just brakes your compiler. With Xcode 3.2.6...

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Build QT/Symbian Apps on Linux/Mac OS X

QT is a nice cross plattform development environment, but building for Symbian is a bit tricky on non Windows platforms. Or is it? You can Google for it, and find information about Gnupoc, Gcce and...

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16 GB Max RAM in 13″ MacBook Pro (Early 2011)

I can confirm that it was possible to upgrade a Mac Book Pro (Early 2011) to 16GB of RAM (2x8GB DDR3 PC10600 SODIMM). According to Apple this model only supports 8GB of RAM. My model is the one with a...

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Streaming media on the Mac : Ace Player HD

There are many great reasons to use a Mac. Easy access to propriatory Windows software isn’t one of them. Watching sports online usually include one of a few technologies: Flash: Works fine on a Mac...

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Install Mac OS X 10.9 on unsupported MacBook

I have a MacBook Mid 2007 (more technically named MacBook2,1) that officially can not be upgraded beyond Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion). It is however possible to install Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) on it with...

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Xubuntu on Unsupported MacBook

Last week I wrote about installing Mac OS X Mavericks on my MacBook 2007 (MacBook 2,1). That went fine… but… for a computer I mostly use in my lap, in the living room, no decent Internet Video...

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Bad OS X performance due to bad blocks

An unfortunate iMac suffered from file system corruption a while ago. It was reinstalled and worked fine for a while, but performance degraded and after weeks the system was unusable. Startup was slow,...

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Build OpenWRT Toolchain on Mac OS X

A very quick guide to building the OpenWRT buildroot or toolchain on Mac OS X (10.10). 1. Install Xcode Install Xcode from App Store (it is free). 2. Install pkgsrc I have used fink, macports and...

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