Useful link on to help find corrupt files.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/156095/delete_files_to_prevent_crashes_in_os_x_1056.html
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Apple system update - Network error
Error: Your network settings have been changed by another application
when trying to change the network preference, it locks up.
Fix:
Go to Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration and delete the following (suggest make copies to the desktop first if in doubt):
com.apple.airport.preferences.plist
NetworkInterfaces.plist
preferences.plist
com.apple.nat.plist
All these files will regenerate as necessary when the associated system features are accessed. If you're using Airport or Internet Sharing you'll have to reestablish the appropriate settings, because these will have been lost when the preferences files are removed. Small price to pay, however for a permanent, and very simple solution to this irritating problem."
when trying to change the network preference, it locks up.
Fix:
Go to Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration and delete the following (suggest make copies to the desktop first if in doubt):
com.apple.airport.preferences.plist
NetworkInterfaces.plist
preferences.plist
com.apple.nat.plist
All these files will regenerate as necessary when the associated system features are accessed. If you're using Airport or Internet Sharing you'll have to reestablish the appropriate settings, because these will have been lost when the preferences files are removed. Small price to pay, however for a permanent, and very simple solution to this irritating problem."
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Data plan with Rogers
I just talked to someone who thought they pulled a quick one with their cell phone provider by entering in the id and password for the Edge network on their iPhone. I warned this person when they did this that they should double check and that they most likely will get billed for all the data that is transferred when they are playing around with their iPhone. She figured that since she did not sign up for any data plan that she would not get billed.
She got a bill for $2200.00 dollars.
She got a bill for $2200.00 dollars.
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Snergy
Do you use more then one computer at a time like I do. Some of you will ask, why in earth would you use more then one computer at time. Simple answer is that you have multiple things processing and doing them on one computer is slow.
If you do use a couple of systems and need to see what is happening on the different computers and want to save some space by eliminating the multiple keyboards and mice. You can do this by using a open source program called Synergy. This is not new, I thought I would post this as I had to add another computer into my setup and thought I would mention that it has full support for Mac OSX leopard. It works with PC/Mac/Unix and allow you to mix all the environments.
Just to clarify, this is not the same as using a switch to change the monitor to display a different computer, e.g. a couple of computer all sharing the same keyboard, mouse and screen. This only let you view one computer at a time. Usually you see this in a server room.
This setup allows you to see all the screens at the same time and allow you to have one keyboard and mouse with any costs. You can have all the monitors setup across the desk and have one mouse and keyboard for all the computers. When you move the mouse to the edge of the screen, it will move to the next computer. You can place the monitors across left or right and on top or bottom.
If you do use a couple of systems and need to see what is happening on the different computers and want to save some space by eliminating the multiple keyboards and mice. You can do this by using a open source program called Synergy. This is not new, I thought I would post this as I had to add another computer into my setup and thought I would mention that it has full support for Mac OSX leopard. It works with PC/Mac/Unix and allow you to mix all the environments.
Just to clarify, this is not the same as using a switch to change the monitor to display a different computer, e.g. a couple of computer all sharing the same keyboard, mouse and screen. This only let you view one computer at a time. Usually you see this in a server room.
This setup allows you to see all the screens at the same time and allow you to have one keyboard and mouse with any costs. You can have all the monitors setup across the desk and have one mouse and keyboard for all the computers. When you move the mouse to the edge of the screen, it will move to the next computer. You can place the monitors across left or right and on top or bottom.
Tavo iPhone gloves
Using an iphone in the winter with gloves on is very hard, your fingers cannot get the screen to react with gloves on. Tavo offers a pair of gloves with a special material on the index finger and thumb. They also have some rubber patches in the palms for better grip. The gloves work great as driving gloves in the car.
Monster iPhone adapter
Bought one of these adapters, works great with Apple ear buds, the adapter plugs into iPhone and has a separate line with a mic that you can clip on your shirt. Your old ear phones plug into this adapter. It was $20 dollars. I tried them with the Apple ear buds and they worked great. I tried with with my Shure headphone and the sound was not as rich.
Saturday, February 2, 2008
Online backup
A couple of ways you can do this.
Use gmail, save files as attachments. There is a handy download utility that will mount you gmail as a network drive on your pc. This allow you to drag and drop files to your gmail account. Mac , PC
Buy an .mac account. Comes with up to 10gb of storage, depending on how much you allocate to .mac mail. This cost $99/year, however there are a bunch of other services included with a .mac account.
mozy - 4.95/month and you get 2gb of encrypted storage. 30 days before older versions are deleted. - Good if you need to go back to an old copy of a file.
carbonite - 49.95/year, for unlimited space. Data is encrypted and they only keep recent copies.
Use gmail, save files as attachments. There is a handy download utility that will mount you gmail as a network drive on your pc. This allow you to drag and drop files to your gmail account. Mac , PC
Buy an .mac account. Comes with up to 10gb of storage, depending on how much you allocate to .mac mail. This cost $99/year, however there are a bunch of other services included with a .mac account.
mozy - 4.95/month and you get 2gb of encrypted storage. 30 days before older versions are deleted. - Good if you need to go back to an old copy of a file.
carbonite - 49.95/year, for unlimited space. Data is encrypted and they only keep recent copies.
OLED Displays
The next generation of displays shown at 2008 CES is the OLED displays with a 1,000,000 to 1 contrast ratio compared to 15,000 to 1 with current LCD and plasma. This is going to make the current LCD and plasma technology obsolete in a couple of years. Sony is shipping an 11" OLED TV, 3mm thick, in first generation.
HTC Touch - Youtube on Window Media Player Mobile
If you want to play youtube video's on an HTC touch cell phone, which has Window Media player.It is not straight forward like on the Apple iphone. Apple put a special player on the iphone to handle the stream from youtube. To get around this limitation on the HTC phone, you can download this HTC Media player and install in your HTC touch and allow you to play the youtube videos in explorer.
Monday, January 21, 2008
Spyware
I get asked this question a lot. What can I use to help with Spyware and virus's. I usually say they should get a Mac. But if you on a PC and need something and don't want to spend any money. Try the following for spyware:
Lavasoft Ad-Aware, http://www.lavasoftusa.com/. When you install, you will get a drop down asking for a registration key, just skip this to install the free version.
Malware Sweeper
For Virus:
AVG
Avast
If your using Firefox, you should download SiteAdvisor from McAfee. This little plug-in will tell you how safe the sites are that come up in your searches. Very very useful.
Lavasoft Ad-Aware, http://www.lavasoftusa.com/. When you install, you will get a drop down asking for a registration key, just skip this to install the free version.
Malware Sweeper
For Virus:
AVG
Avast
If your using Firefox, you should download SiteAdvisor from McAfee. This little plug-in will tell you how safe the sites are that come up in your searches. Very very useful.
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Flock
Trying out this cool browser called Flock. Integrates a lot of the social sites, media and feeds that I am subscribed to. Will keep you updated. This might the the ticket to keeping the blog going. I doing this post from blogger within the flock browser.
Http://www.flock.com
Http://www.flock.com
Saturday, January 5, 2008
Ringtones for iPhone
The iPhone is really cool with all the applications that you can download and use, from a Super Nintendo emulator, Sudoku and the NY city location finder with subway map (alway had to carry the map when in NY). With all this free stuff, how can you get ring tones into the iPhone.
Disclaimer: do at your own risk, I am not endorsing the methods or programs listed in this post. This method worked for my iPhone.
This is what I have discovered. Goto http://tonefm.com/
There are other sites, but this one has a good number is a number of different categories. They are also in mp3 format. You'll notice that if you play the tone, it only plays and doesn't download. In actual fact when something plays to a browser, it is actually downloading onto your computer (exceptions are a stream, but there are ways around that). To actually get the mp3 tone, I used Firefox and downloaded the free plug in called Download Helper. This is a free plug in will capture the tone and allow you to save the file to a folder.
Once you have the mp3 files, you need to download them to the iPhone. The easiest way is to use a piece of software called iToner (Mac only) available at:
http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/itoner/
You can use it for free for a limited time or just purchase the program it is very cheap and well worth it. This program will sync to your iPhone and all you need to do is drag the mp3 into the iToner window and press sync.
To get your favorite song as a ring tone will require a bit of work or you can use iTunes and pay the 99 cents. If you want to do it yourself. Get a copy of Audacity at: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ , the program is open source and free.
This program will allow you to take a segment out of your favorite song. Most ring tones are a total of 24 seconds or less. Once you get this 24 second segment, you can save it to a audio format for download. I won't go into how this program works, you can read up on it once you download it.
I have not looked to see if there are equivalent or easy ways to do this on a PC. I am sure there are programs that will allow you to do this. I use both platforms but found it very simple with iToner. There are other ways like using sftp to get to the ring tones directory to get your ring tones loaded, but the method is for the more technical person. You can search the internet for the directions on this. You actually need to do this to load the NES games.
Disclaimer: do at your own risk, I am not endorsing the methods or programs listed in this post. This method worked for my iPhone.
This is what I have discovered. Goto http://tonefm.com/
There are other sites, but this one has a good number is a number of different categories. They are also in mp3 format. You'll notice that if you play the tone, it only plays and doesn't download. In actual fact when something plays to a browser, it is actually downloading onto your computer (exceptions are a stream, but there are ways around that). To actually get the mp3 tone, I used Firefox and downloaded the free plug in called Download Helper. This is a free plug in will capture the tone and allow you to save the file to a folder.
Once you have the mp3 files, you need to download them to the iPhone. The easiest way is to use a piece of software called iToner (Mac only) available at:
http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/itoner/
You can use it for free for a limited time or just purchase the program it is very cheap and well worth it. This program will sync to your iPhone and all you need to do is drag the mp3 into the iToner window and press sync.
To get your favorite song as a ring tone will require a bit of work or you can use iTunes and pay the 99 cents. If you want to do it yourself. Get a copy of Audacity at: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ , the program is open source and free.
This program will allow you to take a segment out of your favorite song. Most ring tones are a total of 24 seconds or less. Once you get this 24 second segment, you can save it to a audio format for download. I won't go into how this program works, you can read up on it once you download it.
I have not looked to see if there are equivalent or easy ways to do this on a PC. I am sure there are programs that will allow you to do this. I use both platforms but found it very simple with iToner. There are other ways like using sftp to get to the ring tones directory to get your ring tones loaded, but the method is for the more technical person. You can search the internet for the directions on this. You actually need to do this to load the NES games.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
