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Alvin - who has written 270 posts on Alvin Poh’s Blog.
Alvin is a Singaporean who's interested in marketing, techy stuff and likes to just figure out how the two can work with each other. On top of his blog, you can also follow him on Twitter.
Gmail Outages – Scary?
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: Scary? It [...]
Continue reading...How To Resolve Kernel Panics in Mac OSX
Monday, March 8, 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 to [...]
Continue reading...How To Add Cron or Cron-like Jobs To Mac (With MAMP or Otherwise)
Monday, March 1, 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. [...]
Continue reading...Creative Way Of Advertising On Google Maps
Saturday, February 27, 2010
The following is a pretty creative way to advertise on Google Maps using Street View! Originally from Creative Advertising With Street View On Google Maps.
Continue reading...How To Batch Unzip A Series of Sequential Zip Files In Mac OSX
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
I recently got a bunch of zip files, some sequential (X1.zip, X2.zip, etc), and others not. The thing is, they number in the hundreds, and most contain RAR files within them, and simply extracting each one won’t do. I had to find an automated way to unzip all the zip files, and the utility that [...]
Continue reading...How To Remove/Uninstall KEXTs In Mac OSX
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
KEXTs are Kernel Extensions, and I realised that a program that I installed in the past (SteerMouse) had left its KEXT behind even though I uninstalled the program. You can see the list of KEXTs in your system at /System/Library/Extensions/, but do note that Mac OSX only loads whichever KEXT is needed. As you can’t just [...]
Continue reading...How To Disable Gmail’s Spam Filter or Spam Box With 2 Easy Steps
Friday, February 19, 2010
There are several things that I hate, and one of them is spam. The problem with spam is not actually reading the spam, but having to live with all the workarounds that have now surfaced to reduce the onslaught of spam. For example: anti-spam filters in your mail program. In the past, like 10 years [...]
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Saturday, March 13, 2010
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