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USB tethering a Samsung Vibrant with MAC OS X and T-Mobile

Sunday, January 30th, 2011

I would suggest you get an unlimited data plan with T-mobile.

*** Note: You have to have USB debugging enabled to get MacOS X to prompt setting up the vibrant as a USB modem. Not having this enabled didn’t work.***

1. Connect your Vibrant to your Mac with the USB cable.

2. MacOS should prompt you saying that there is a device connected and not set up. If it does not, click on the Apple Menu, select system preferences. Select the Network pane.

3. The device should have been named as SAMSUNG_Android. Select it.

4. Start with the advanced options. Click the button that says ‘Advanced.’

5. Under the Modem tab, use these options:

Model: Samsung

Model: GPRS (GSM/3G)

APN: epc.tmobile.com

CID: 1

6. Leave the DNS, WINS, and Proxies tabs alone

7. Under the PPP tab, ‘TCP Compression’ has to be checked.

8. Click ‘OK’ and return to the Network Pane.

9. I used these settings for the SAMSUNG_Android configuration.

Telephone Number: *99#

Account Name: username

Password: password

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Add an image or text on top of a one page PDF

Monday, January 17th, 2011

First, scan your signature and save it as a decent-quality image (.gif works, as does .jpg and .png). Keep this image for any future need. Second, open a word processor (MS Word and Pages both work) and create a new document. Drag the PDF into the document, and it will come up as a smaller document, with adjustment handles. Under ‘wrapping’ in the formatting palette, make sure the document is in the background, or floating (not Inline). Then, adjust the size of the image so that it exactly fits on the page (it’s easier to do this if you reduce the page window to less than 100%).

Once you have the PDF in the background and sized appropriately, you can place images or text boxes wherever you like. Then, simply Print to PDF, and you’ll have the merged PDF. The PDF text will remain selectable and the PDF size should not change appreciably (depending on the extras you add).

If you want to do this to a multi-page PDF, it is more time consuming, but doable: first ‘Print to PDF’ the page you want to change as a single page PDF, and then follow the instructions above. Finally, merge the new PDF page with the old document by either printing the other pages as two separate documents and then using Preview (as in this hint), or by using a PDF Merge application such as PDFMergeX (now PDFGarden) or other freeware.

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Open source code in an external editor from Firefox

Monday, January 17th, 2011

To do this, you need to enter about:config in Firefox’s URL bar, then accept the warning when prompted. In the Filter box, type source.editor, which will show you three variables. Double-click on view_source.editor.external first and change its value to true.

Next, double-click on view_source.editor.path, which will drop down a small sheet in which you enter the path to your preferred editor. The path must be a full complete Unix-style path, and point to the actual executable (not the app bundle). So for Coda, I used /Applications/added/Coda.app/Contents/MacOS/Coda. For BBEdit, you need to actually point to the command-line version (/usr/local/bin/bbedit); to do that, you must have first installed BBEdit’s own command line tools (BBEdit -> Install Command Line Tools). Other editors should work; just dig into the bundle (from Finder’s contextual menu, Show Package Contents) to find the name of the actual binary. Click OK to dismiss the sheet, and you’re done.

From now on, Command-U should open the page source in your chosen editor. If it fails, the code will just open directly in Firefox. To revert to Command-U’s original behavior, just open about:config again, and set view_source.editor.external back to false.

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How do I uninstall Office 2008 in MAC OS X

Saturday, January 8th, 2011

In Mac OS X, how do I uninstall Microsoft Office?

Note: Currently, the Remove Office tool is not available for Office 2011.

To remove Microsoft Office from your Mac OS X computer, use the Remove Office tool provided by Microsoft.

Note: The Remove Office tools will not delete documents you have created with Office programs unless they are located in the application folders for Microsoft Office. If you have documents you want to keep in any of the application folders, move them to a different folder before using the tool.

  1. To find the Remove Office tools, open the Microsoft Office 2008 folder or the Microsoft Office 2004 folder, and then open the Additional Tools folder.

  2. For instructions, read the Read Me file in the Remove Office folder.
  3. When you run Remove Office, it will allow you to remove installations of Microsoft Office 98 through 2008 as well as related preferences and system files. Once you have run the program, it places the removed Office components in the Trash.

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Activate the Onscreen Keyboard in OS X

Wednesday, January 5th, 2011

This tutorial will show you how to turn on the onscreen keyboard that OS X has built in.

To turn on the onscreen keyboard:

  1. Go to the System Preferences panel
  2. Select the “International” icon
  3. Go to the “Input Menu” tab
  4. Select the “Keyboard Viewer”
  5. You now should have an American flag in your menu bar. Click on the American flag and select “Show Keyboard Viewer”
  6. You now should have a keyboard on your desktop that displays whatever your press on your keyboard. Quick, easy, free!

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