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Disable Paging in Mac OS X
Virtual memory, Paging or Swap used to be a way to pretend your computer had more memory than it actually had. It made it possible to run programs that would otherwise not run at all. But it was never...
View ArticleATA-6 drive in Titanium Powerbook
I successfully installed a WD 320Gb IDE 2.5″ Scorpio Blue in my Apple Powerbook 867MHz. Why is that interesting? Well, it is very hard to find the information that Titaniumbooks supports hard drives...
View ArticleUSB 2.0 PCMCIA card for Mac OS X
My 867MHz PowerBook G4 still works reasonably well, especially after I upgraded the hard drive. The worst thing with it, is that it only has USB 1.1-ports. For external hard drives, iPod syncronization...
View ArticleMacMini 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...
View ArticleYoutube 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.
View ArticleMake 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...
View ArticleBuild 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...
View Article16 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...
View ArticleStreaming 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...
View ArticleXubuntu 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...
View ArticleBad 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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