Category Archives: Mac

Feb

2012

Macintosh SE/30 and System 7

While at CCFE they were going through a time of clearing out random things that hadn’t been used in years; I came across a Macintosh SE/30 The Macintosh SE/30 is a personal computer that was designed, manufactured and sold by Apple Computer, Inc. from 1989 until 1991. It was the fastest and most expandable of the original black-and-white compact [...]

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Dec

2011

Installing Lion on my Mac Mini – Part 1

by Skippy

For the last few years I have been using a Mac Mini as my desktop; With Lion being released, and installed on my Mac Book Pro, now after using it for a while I want to use it on my mac mini as well; one of the annoying problems with it however is it requires [...]

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Nov

2011

Tethering without O2′s consent — Tether has been Pulled from the iTunes Store

by Skippy

— This is no longer possible to set up due to the iPhone Tether App being pulled — One of those things I love about my Mobile Phone Contract is my unlimited data, way back at the beginning of time for “Smart Phones” I signed up on O2′s £25 Simplicity Contract, (February 2008) this let me have [...]

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Nov

2011

Audiobooks Done Right

by Skippy

There are a large number of Audiobooks available for listening to on sites like the The Pirate Bay (μTorrent is my Torrent Client of choice), some of them are already in iTunes Audiobook format (.m4b not .m4a) while most of them are CD rips in MP3. There are a number of advantages to iTunes & iPod [...]

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Sep

2011

DVD Ripping Work Flow

by Skippy

As Part of my attempt to reduce the amount of stuff I have, I have been ripping my DVDs to my Mac; this allows me to store them on hard drive; and not need to get the disks out all the time; Also it allows me to watch them on my mac mini, which has a dead [...]

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Sep

2011

100+ Challenge update (its not going well).

by Skippy

I am currently not doing that well on my 100+ Reading Challenge; I am currently up to book number 24, leaving me just under 5 months to read the remaining 76 books to get to the minimum 100. One of the things I am finding hard is the act of reading; Its still something I [...]

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Jun

2011

Mobile wifi Internet

by Skippy

A while ago I wrote about my experiences with unlocking a Three Data Modem; recently I picked up a Edimax 3G-6210n GPRS USB Modem to Wi-Fi (and wired) router, I plan to use this at Medieval Siege Society events, and while away with the car (it has an internal battery ). Setting the box up is easy; [...]

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May

2011

Running Boot Camp Windows on OS X using Parallels

by Skippy

As I now have installed Windows 2008 R2 on my Mac; I am looking to also run the same copy of Windows under OS X as a Virtual machine; other things that DreamSpark allows me to have access to, is Visual Studios. Also with my .ac.uk email address is the ability to buy student copies [...]

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