Çinliler çok geçmeden Apple’ın satış rekorlarını kıran iPhone’nun yanında Macbook Air’ı da taklit ederek piyasaya sürdüler. Sistem Windows XP kurulu gelmesiyle beraber Hackintosh ile Mac OSX yüklemek kolay olacağa benziyor, ucuz yollu Mac Book Air sahibi olmak isteyenlere bir fırsat diyebiliriz.Özelliklerine gelecek olursak Intel Atom N280 CPU, 1GB DDR2 RAM, 160GB Sabit Disk, 802.11a/b/g Wi-Fi, 2 adet USB girişi, Ethernet girişi, HDMI. Ürünün diğer dikkat çeken yanı ise ağırlığı sadece 1,3 kilo.Pil ömrü ve kalitesi hakkında herhangi bir bilgi bulunmamakta.

I hadn’t done a full OS reinstall on my MacBook since I originally got it, so I decided last night to remedy the situation with a clean nuke-and-pave of MacOS X 10.6.2 Snow Leopard. As you can see from the screenshot above, I am back up and running with 10.6.2. NeoOffice and CS4 along with a handful of other software goodies are reinstalled, and my files are restored to their rightful places on my hard drive. One thing that I decided to do differently, that I had never tried before, was to encrypt my home folder with FileFault. I know that this can cause a real problem when something goes wrong, but I backup my files often enough that I hope it won’t turn into a nightmare if the FileFault system develops a problem. So far, I haven’t noticed any performance hit or problem by using FileFault, despite copying back many files to my internal SSD.

While everything was being done, I finished Philip K. Dick’s Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said. I will read A Scanner Darkly next and then switch back to some postmodern theory.

I’m a self-professed, fanatical user of the pedia apps available from Bruji. They’re the only thing that keep me sane while trying to organize my ever growing collection of media.

A while back they released an absolutely perfect (and free) iPhone app called Pocketpedia. It simply synced your collections from the desktop applications so you could always keep them with you on the go.

Amazon, being amazon, decided that was too much goodness for us mere mortals and sent a removal letter to Apple. Pocketpedia wasn’t the sole target but it was the only one that mattered to me.

Bruji, being Bruji, decided their customers were certainly entitled to that goodness and took it upon themselves to rewrite the application in a way amazon couldn’t complain about. It recently hit the app store, and the joy is immense!

Not only is the application even snappier than the old one but it also supports two-way syncing this time, so you’re no longer forced to do all organization the desktop.

If you haven’t got a set of database applications then you owe it to yourself to check out Bruji and their offering. Pocketpedia2 for president?

If you’re Mac-based, check out this redesigned browser for MacOSX.

After Long Wait, Camino 2.0 Finally Hits The Streets

Camino 2.0 is a major improvement to tab handling and rendering. However, it still isn’t keeping pace with its Firefox cousin when it comes to emerging standards support.
By Chris Foresman | Last updated November 19, 2009 4:30 PM

ps3mediaserver – Project Hosting on Google Code

If you’re like me who doesn’t own a PC to stream media to the PS3 then this free alternative is a good idea. It runs on macs, PCs and Linux and developed on the Java platform.

It’s fairly simple to use if you know your way around media servers but to put it simply, it gets the job done. I’m using my mac mini  ( not the latest but the first generation intel Mac mini with 2 GB of RAM to do this. It automatically sets up the DNLA protocols necessary to communicate with the PS3 and automatically sets the movie folder in your home folder as the default source for the media. You can add additional folders as well.

But what makes this piece of software great is the transcoding. Up until now, we’ve always been dependent on the formats that the consoles supported and it hasn’t been easy. Not all avi files would play, incompatible condec and so on that it’s been quite a challenge to play anything off a home media server to the PS3 but it all changes with this software and it’s built in transcoder.

Yes folks it has a built in transcoder which will allow you to transcode in almost faster than real time any format to make it PS3 friendly.  That means all your mkv, avi, ogg, and so on will be transcoded in almost real time. Note that I stress almost real time. This is because results may vary on the processor, RAM and so on of your computer and may either be faster or slower.

Sound transmitted supports dolby digital or whatever audio encoding is in your files. Scrubbing through the movie may prove to be difficult for some formats since I’ve stated above that it may or may not be transcoding. This means that if the file is being transcoded, chances are you can’t skip any further than what has already been transcoded. So be warned. A mild inconvenience but nothing that should seriously affect the overall experience.

The PS3 automatically detects the presence of the media server and everything can be accessed from there. The one amazing thing I’m very very much impressed here is tha ability to select language. Yes I do mean the audio language of the file. The file format mkv is used mostly if there are multiple languages in the file. It’s like the DVD language menu option but can usually only be controlled or watched on a PC. PS3 Media Server ia able to dissect through the language options and send that information to the PS3 which will allow you to select your desired language.

The best part of this, it’s free. Yes, click on the link above to bring you to the developer’s page and download away. I do hope that they continue to develop and support this important piece of software and keep it free.

I installed Apple’s latest update for Snow Leopard, 10.6.2, with their 476MB Combo Updater available here. The upgrade successfully installed, and I have not had any problems with my usual apps: CS4 and NeoOffice. Luckily, I haven’t experienced the invisible menu bar status icons issue reported by some folks. I do, however, need to run PhotoBooth and find out if the update addresses the MacBook fan revving issue while video chatting that began with MacOS X 10.6.

Above is a screen shot of my desktop, and the desktop picture was one that I recently made when I was walking around downtown Atlanta on Peachtree Street.

Hello,
It’s just a quick reminder that Snow Leopard 10.6.2 update just arrived and it is ready to download. My advice is to wait at least one or two days, read the comments on the Internet, make a backup of your entire system and than do that update.

Leave the comment if you are quicker and recently did the update. I am going to wait a day!

Times Mac

Times liefert eine optische “Tageszeitung” sieht sehr schön aus und bietet eine “Unterlage” um die für einen wichtigen Artikel immer im Blick zu haben. Schade es ist nur Englisch und hat als Vorlage nur Englische Feeds, man kann natürlich seine eigenen einbinden. Es ist nur etwas Zeitaufwendig alles so anzupassen wie man es gerne hätte, für den gemütlichen RSS Feed Reader sehr angenehm. Für den RSS News Junkie etwas zu unübersichtlich ! Sehr enttäuschend die 30$ kosten für das Programm da gibt es auch genügend Umsonst !

NetNewsWire Mac

NetNewsWire ist ein sehr übersichtlicher NewsReader er übernimmt beim start die Google Feed Einstellungen und überträgt die Favoriten gleich in seine Liste. Es können selber Verzeichnisse und Feeds angelegt werden die neusten ungelesenen werden Markiert so das man auch nichts verpasst. Für den News Junkie ein sehr schönes Programm grafisch zwar nicht so schick aber der Funktion entsprechend. Wer auf die Werbung verzichten will kann sich einen serial für 10Euro kaufen.

Vienna Mac

Vienna für Mac ist NetNewsWire sehr ähnlich und es ist schwer auf den ersten Blick unterschiede zu finden, Vienna ist sehr Einsteiger Freundlich da es viele Voreinstellungen  hat und gleich Blogger und Live unterstützt. Übersichtlich und das beste Kostenlos

NewsFire Mac

NewsFire ist eher einem Chat Programm ähnlich die Oberfläche ist kurz und Handlich die neusten Beiträge werden in Spalten dargestellt und werden beim drauf klicken vergrößert. NewsFire ist auch kostenlos aber hatte direkt am Anfang einen Error. Der letzte Feed vom Hersteller kann nicht entfernt werden ! Sieht sehr interessant aus und wie bei Times mal ein etwas ausgefallenes Design.

Es gibt sicher noch viel mehr Newsreader aber um wirklich alle zu testen fehlt mir die Zeit aus den von mir Installierten würde ich Vorschlagen :

1. Vienna (kostenlos) Übersichtlich und einfach, grade für Einsteiger sehr gut.

2. NetNewsWire (10 Euro oder Werbung ertragen) Übersichtlich allerdings kann das Vienna auch und kostenlos.

3. NewsFire (kostenlos) Ausgefallenes Design, aber leider gleich ein Absturz im Test sonst sicher Platz 2.

4. Times (30$) Wer es den “Mac way” haben will, allerdings mit 30$ auch der teuerste.

Hello,

Because I met people asking about how to access 1Password database from a PC or Linux or even mobile phone, I have decided to post a link to this video. It’s a 1Password 3 feature. Here you go:

Here is also a blog post from the 1Password developers, how to set things up: http://tinyurl.com/qgea2b Enjoy!

I am having some problem with the X11 lately on my Mac OSX (Leopard). I have not found a solution yet — when I do I’ll sure put it up here. But a stuck X11 window in the dock caused it to freeze up. Along with that all the fancy cover switch and other related stuff are also gone! Luckily the spotlight accepted the Command+spacebar combination and let me find terminal.app from there.

However, although I knew who the culprit was (using htop) but I cannot kill it (kill -9 kills it, but it revives!). But the following command did the trick:

It’ll kill the Dock application and then restart it instantly. (Although it did not kill the culprit, x11).

I’m yet to find a solution for the x11 problem!

After a couple of months using hackintosh at home, I need to use the similar environment at the office .. as I want to use a better environment

I went with this list:

Gigabyte GA-EP41-UD3L
Zotac 9600GT
Intel Core2Duo E7500 2.93 GHz
Casing with 400 Watt Power Supply Unit
RAM Kingston DDR2/800 2GB
Harddisk SATA 160GB

With the limitation I had [no 8GB or more FlashDisk], I modify some guidance on the hackintosh forum like this.

Pre-requisite:

• Retail DVD of Snow Leopard 10.6.0
• USB Flash Disk [64MB is enough]
• Get ES2L kit from sk1nhd33t posting
• Get DSDT.aml and Sets of LegacyHDA by theBrave here or here
• A working hackintosh or real Mac

Preparation:
Create USB Boot

• Create USB Boot as sk1nhd33t create Boot Installer guide, I ticked: com.apple.Boot.plist; LegacyAppleRTC.kext; NullPowerManagement.kext; OpenHaltRestart.kext; PlatformUUID.kext; SleepEnabler.kext
• Do not copy Bootcamp themes
• Leave /Volumes/[USBFlash]/com.apple.Boot.plist as it is
• Rename /Volumes/[USBFlash]/Extra/CustomExtentions to /Volumes/[USBFlash]/Extra/Extentions
• Copy DSDT.aml from theBrave to /Volumes/[USBFlash]/Extra
• Copy ./series of LegacyHDA 888 (ALC888)/4outs2ins HDA headphone/LegacyHDA.kext to /Volumes/[USBFlash]/Extra/Extentions
• Copy ES2L Kit to the USBFlash

Create installer partition on harddisk

• Plug your new harddisk to a working hackintosh and use Disk Utility to partition it into 2 partitions, with the second partition on the end of the disk around 10GB [give it SnowLeopard and SLinstaller name respectively]
• Use process above to make SLinstaller partition bootable
• Plug the harddisk to the new rig

Installation:

• Plug your USBFlash to the PC, and fire up the rig .. hit Delete on keyboard and choose this USB as the first bootable media, hit F10 and Y
• When screen of bootable Snow appear, hit arrow then choose SLinstaller as the boot media
• Follow the screen of MacOSX installation, choose your harddisk partition as target [I selected all the options in customized with no error at all]
• After it finished [around 30 minutes], it need restart
• Plug your speaker to the green port behind the rig
• On the screen of bootable Snow, hit arrow again and choose SnowLeopard partition
• [sound should be ok] Follow all the remaining installation process
• After it finished, once again do step creation USB Boot above to make SnowLeopard partition bootable.
• Restart the system [don't forget to plug out your USBFlash]
• System should be booted from SnowLeopard partition, and your system should be OK now.
• Connect to internet and update to 10.6.1 and iTunes 9.0.2 [this is what my fresh installation of SL need]

Refinement:
Check TimeMachine can work or not.
Check Dashboard widget addition [a proof of QE/CI functioning well]

OK, I’m a happy hackintosh user …   

One of my friend have a problem with Time Machine after he swap his laptop harddisk to a newer laptop ..
as I already had a similar problem in my hackintosh, this is due to UUID problem .. I informed the forum about this link and this … and here are his resolution on our forum [with some of my note]:

Buka Applications – Terminal [this is done on the new laptop]
* Ketik command $ hostname ===> catat hostname [A]
* Ketik command $ ifconfig -a ==> catat angka2 MAC address pada interface en0 [B] => e.g. ether 00:23:32:b7:26:3c  
* Ketik command $ mount ==> catat nama dari harddisk tempat Time Machine backup [C]

Sebelumnya matiin dulu Time Machine dari System Preferences, lalu make
sure bahwa MAC address yang teregistered di Time Machine adalah MAC
address MBP yang lama :

$ cd /Volumes/[C]/Backups.backupdb
$ xattr -p com.apple.backupd.BackupMachineAddress [A]

[bandingkan angka yang ditampilkan dengan [B] .. seharusnya berbeda.

setelah confirmed lakukan :

$ cd ..
$ ls -al

pada list folders & files, di bagian atas terdapat tulisan MAC address tetapi ditulis dengan format .00f9e8d7c6b56 (contoh)

lalu untuk melakukan perubahan, misalnya dari MAC address 00:f9:e8:d7:c6:b5 ke 00:1a:2b:3c:4f:56, lakukan :

$ sudo fsaclctl -p /Volumes/[C] -d
$ sudo mv .00f9e8d7c6b5 .001a2b3c4f56
$ sudo xattr -w com.apple.backupd.BackupMachineAddress 00:1a:2b:3c:4f:56 Backups.backupdb/[A]
$ sudo fsaclctl -p /Volumes/[C] -e

Buka Applications – Utilities – Disk Utiliy …
unmount dan remount harddisk external, lalu on-kan lagi Time Machine dan lakukan backup seperti biasa.

Unfortunately, when I have a new motherboard for my hackintosh .. all this step is not working .. hiks … only for the real Mac I guess .. hiks …

I sometime have problem finding which persistent process is not letting me eject a volume (CD/DVD/USB drive). The error message is not very helpful at all:

Try quitting applications

OK, but which one(s)? I often have hard time figuring that out using htop/ top or a combination of ps and grep.

But actually this is what I want:

where Volume_Name is the name of the volume (or an ‘identifying’ part of the name) I want to eject. This gives me the name(s) and process ID(s) of the run-away process(es) as well as the path to the file(s) in use on the volume, Volume_Name.

Now that I know the names I should first try to save the documents and quit the applications involved in the normal way. However, if a particular application does not oblige, I can always kill it (with the risk of potential data loss!) using its process ID (say, 123):

After that, the ejection of the volume should not be difficult at all.

Needless to say, being a Unix utility, lsof (=“list open files”) may be used on other *nix-based systems as well.

I just stumbled upon a few ways to change the default login shell to bash:

The easiest one is

$ chsh -s /bin/bash username

On some machines you may have to use ypcsh instead of chsh. The full path of the shell executable must be specified.

But if you have root access you may have the option to use either of the following two as well:

$ usermod -s bash username

Change it by editing the entry for the user in /etc/passwd file, manually.

If none of the above works, here’s a workaround!

N.B. Make sure that the desired shell is listed in /etc/shells file.

Origineel artikel hier: http://thegraphicmac.com/view-detailed-wifi-settings-snow-leopards-airport-menu

Houdt de Option-toets ingedrukt tijdens het klikken op het Airport-icoon in de menubalk. Dit geeft uitgebreide informatie over de draadloze instellingen. Dit werkt alleen met Snow Leopard (Mac OS X  10.6 en hoger).

Apple have resorted to ugly FUD marketing in their latest ad. This seems a bit rich given that Mac OS X 10.6 has a bug that can delete all your user data.

• Start Terminal
• type:  hdiutil mount sample.iso waarbij sample.iso het ISO-bestand is.
• Dit werkt ook met .DMG images
• Loskoppelen kan weer met:  hdiutil unmount sample.iso

Last year on the PHP Conference in Mainz it was the first time i heard about couchdb. I was quite impressed, but had no use case for this database. In the near future i will need to improve our document handling in the applications. So i want to work with couchdb to improve versioning and searching.

You can find more information about couchdb on http://couchdb.apache.org.

As anybody know, the first step is to install the couchdb on the local system. As i am a apple follower . I looked for a guide to install it on snow leopard.

Original information from http://blog.deadinkvinyl.com/2008/07/12/couchdb-on-macosx-leopard/

I did some corrections for the copy and paste guys like me . But the original post has much more information about the single steps.

# Install needed packages via macports
sudo port install icu erlang spidermonkey

# Download the latest couchdb file
tar xvzf apache-couchdb-0.10.0.tar.gz
./configure
make

sudo make install

# Show all used userId’s
dscl . -list /Users UniqueID | awk ‘{print $2}’ | sort -n

# Show all used groupId’s
dscl . -list /Groups PrimaryGroupID | awk ‘{print $2}’ | sort -n

# We use groupid and userid 103 for the couchdbuser
sudo dseditgroup -o create -i 103 -r “CouchDB Users” couchdb
sudo dscl . -create /Users/couchdb
sudo dscl . -create /Users/couchdb UniqueID 103
sudo dscl . -create /Users/couchdb UserShell /bin/bash
sudo dscl . -create /Users/couchdb RealName “CouchDB Administrator”
sudo dscl . -create /Users/couchdb NFSHomeDirectory \
/usr/local/var/lib/couchdb
sudo dscl . -create /Users/couchdb PrimaryGroupID 103
sudo dscl . -create /Users/couchdb Password *

sudo chown -R couchdb:couchdb /usr/local/var/lib/couchdb
sudo chown -R couchdb:couchdb /usr/local/var/log/couchdb

# Startup couchdb

sudo -u couchdb couchdb

Create a copy of the plist file and edit it.

cp /usr/local/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.apache.couchdb.plist \
/var/tmp/org.apache.couchdb.plist
open /var/tmp/org.apache.couchdb.plist

1. Open Root → EnvironmentVariables
2. Click on Add Child
3. Name: PATH
4. Value: /bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin
5. File → Save
6. Quit Property List Editor

sudo cp /var/tmp/org.apache.couchdb.plist \
/usr/local/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.apache.couchdb.plist

# To control the database, simply execute
sudo launchctl load \
/usr/local/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.apache.couchdb.plist
# to start
# or
sudo launchctl unload \
/usr/local/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.apache.couchdb.plist
# to stop the database

# Automatically launch
sudo ln -s /usr/local/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.apache.couchdb.plist \
/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.apache.couchdb.plist