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How to Make Your Own Apple OS X Lion Bootable USB Key
Wednesday, July 27th, 2011Share an Airport connection on your Macbook/Macbook Pro with an iPad/iPod Touch via Bluetooth
Thursday, June 16th, 2011This is a useful hint if you have a Mac and an iPad (or iPod touch), and you want to share a hotel wireless Internet connection with both devices.
In the System Preferences Bluetooth pane, pair your Mac with your iPad (they don’t need to be connected yet, just paired). Then, select the iPad in the list of Bluetooth devices, and click the Advanced button. Check the ‘Share my Internet connection with other Bluetooth devices’ option. This should switch you to the Network preferences pane and prompt you to create a new Bluetooth PAN device.
Now go to the Sharing preferences pane and select Internet Sharing from the services list. Under ‘Share your connection from,’ select Airport, and under ‘to computers using,’ select Bluetooth PAN. Then check the checkbox next to Internet Sharing in the services list to enable Internet sharing.
From the iPad’s Settings app in the General pane, tap Bluetooth, and connect to your Mac. In the top left corner, in place of the Wifi signal strength indicator, you should see a pair of interconnected rings indicating that you are connected to your Mac.
When you bring up a new page in Mobile Safari, you might be prompted by the hotel’s ISP to select billing options on the iPad; just tap Cancel, and you should be able to browse normally.
Boot into 64-bit mode on a MacBook Pro
Sunday, May 8th, 2011To switch between 64 and 32-bit modes on your 64-bit supported Mac, you can use either of these methods:
Method 1: Startup key combination (for current startup only)
- If your Mac uses the 32-bit kernel by default, but supports the 64-bit kernel, you can start up using the 64-bit kernel by holding the 6 and 4 keys during startup.
- If your Mac uses the 64-bit kernel by default, you can start up with the 32-bit kernel by holding the 3 and 2 keys during startup.
Your Mac will revert to the default kernel the next time you reboot it.
Method 2: On-disk setting (persistent)
To select the 64-bit kernel for the current startup disk, use the following command in Terminal:
sudo systemsetup -setkernelbootarchitecture x86_64
To select the 32-bit kernel for the current startup disk, use the following command in Terminal:
sudo systemsetup -setkernelbootarchitecture i386
Note: This setting is stored in the /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist file and will take effect every time you start up from this disk. If you start up from a different disk, the setting on that disk, or the hardware default, will take effect.
How to fix pinch and zoom in Firefox 4 for Mac
Wednesday, April 20th, 20111. Go to a new tab, type in about:config hit enter
2. Click the “I’ll be careful, I promise!” button
3. Scroll down until you see “browser.gesture.pinch.in” right click on it and hit modify
4. A drop down that says “Enter string value” appears type in cmd_fullZoomReduce
5. Click ok
There are four that need to be fixed and they are listed below just repeat the process for them all. After you have entered all four you should see them in bold on the right under value.
6.Once you have it all entered just close the tab and it should work.
I didn’t have to quit Firefox for it to work, but you may.
I’m using a MacBook Pro and it worked great, Hope this helps.
Preference Name / Value
browser.gesture.pinch.in / cmd_fullZoomReduce
browser.gesture.pinch.in.shift / cmd_fullZoomReset
browser.gesture.pinch.out / cmd_fullZoomEnlarge
browser.gesture.pinch.out.shift / cmd_fullZoomReset
iPad 2 guitar interfaces
Tuesday, April 19th, 2011Guitar interface for the iPad 2
http://www.apogeedigital.com/products/jam.php
http://www.ikmultimedia.com/irig/features/
Stomp Box for the iPad 2 coming soon
http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/stompbox
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