Archive | March, 2010
How To Login To Apple Genius When Your Password Is Rejected
I was trying out Apple’s iTunes Genius today, but then kept getting an error message saying that my Apple login credentials (username or password) was invalid. I was 100% sure that my username and password were correct, and even went to Apple.com to login again to make sure. It was annoying, but I finally found [...]
Continue reading...How To Use Spaces Effectively With Multiple Monitors On The Mac
18. March 2010
Many people swear by Spaces, a feature on the Mac that allows you to have multiple desktops, and have applications “assigned” to each desktop. I think it’s a fantastic idea too, but using it together with multiple monitors just creates a bad experience. The current problem with it now, in my opinion, is that Spaces [...]
Continue reading...Gmail Outages – Scary?
13. March 2010
When you place your trust and confidence in an online service, even something as huge as Google, you’re probably thinking that it’s infallible. Which is what I thought about Google and its services too, especially Gmail, which I personally use on a daily basis (actually it’s more like on a 5-minute basis). Then this happened: [...]
Continue reading...How To Resolve Kernel Panics in Mac OSX
8. March 2010
I had the fantastic opportunity to be the lucky recipient of kernel panics on my Macbook Pro that happen once every 24-48 hours. I’ve been trying to troubleshoot and resolve the kernel panic, because as you can imagine, it’s extremely counter-productive. I finally resolved it by removing a wonky KEXT (kernel extension) that turned out [...]
Continue reading...How To Add Cron or Cron-like Jobs To Mac (With MAMP or Otherwise)
1. March 2010
The Mac runs on Unix, which makes it incredibly powerful. You might be running MAMP or a stand-alone version of Apache, and one of the things that you might want to run is cron, which is a scheduling tool. Instead of cron though, you could actually have your Mac just run a launch daemon. Just [...]
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31. March 2010
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