Archive for the ‘Mac OS X’ Category

The little things

13, Feb 2010

Those little things make the difference between a good OS and a great OS.

Because I don’t know why it’s not default, and most guides on the net don’t work. (source) Open Terminal.app Open the Preferences window (CMD+,) Click the Settings tab Select your current Settings theme, and click on the Keyboard tab Edit (or Add) the entry for Home Set Action: to send string to shell: Set the string to [...]

Ah well… Apple disallows installing of BootCamp x64 on any non-pro machines. But my mini is 64bin capable, and I want to use that! (damn!) So, after you read the nice error message from setup.exe, just navigate to Boot Camp\Drivers\Apple and install BootCamp64.msi from there. Apple, your policy sucks sometimes. If you need more information [...]

Never. Ever: Try to repair a Windows 7 installation via BootCamp. It freaks out Mac OS. You can imagine, i did it, because native booting into BootCamp was broken after some Vmware Fusion Betas (prior 3.0). Windows 7 is unable to boot after repair, and mac os booting is DEAD SLOW. It’s taking minutes to [...]

Share mouse & keyboard

27, Oct 2009

Really nice. Move your mouse to one side of the screen and watch it move to the next pc/mac in your room. This feels really natural is surprisingly easy to do. Remember, it DOES NOT make sense for a device with no monitor attached! You want VNC then.


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