Posts Tagged ‘OS X’
July 25th, 2011
A very small post for people searching about this specific issue:
You’re trying to delete an icon/shortcut from the sidebar in Finder, under Mac OS X Lion/10.7.
Right clicking doesn’t work, because that folder does not exist, or maybe it points to a share using an old version of AFP or SMB that you can’t connect to, because some company that almost has the same name as a famous dog if you pronounce it in french is a bad company that doesn’t update the firmware on any hardware old enough to have a lot of important data on it.
What you need to do is hold command and drag it to Trash instead of doing a right click.
November 6th, 2009
Latest build of Chromium 4 as my default browser for a week, on OS X.
Let’s see how I can survive this.
First step: Install AdBlock+ And Subscribe to EasyList. That was why I could never survive Chrome before. Oh well that and the fact that the window decorations on Chrome for Windows make me want to jump out of the Window. (no pun in…yeah it was intended).
September 16th, 2009
Msi Wind Forums • View topic – 100% Working Snow Leopard Retail install
This solution seems to work. Here are the exact steps I followed
1) Image your Snow Leopard CD
2) Restore the image on your USB stick
3) Run NetbookMaker (the instructions mention running Netbookinstaller which is an error)
4) Boot the USB stick
5) Format the drive as 1 partition, make sure in options you select GUID partitions. (This is in Utilities/Disk Utility if you’re not used to this)
6) Install…
7) Boot and install the Realtek drivers ( http://files.binaryfactory.ca/windtools/Realtek_RTL8187SE_MacOS10.5_Driver_073_UI_1.6.2.zip )
Reboot. At this point, video works, Wifi works, sound doesn’t, and I haven’t tested everything else.
9) Enable Filevault. The whole point of Netbooks is to bring them to places where you’ll forget them isn’t it?
9.5) Enable Time Machine (See point 9)
10) Install 10.6.1 as I had forgotten to slipstream it to my USB stick. I didn’t install the combo. I’m such a rebel.
More to come tomorrow or Friday !
September 1st, 2009
Right click Safari, click Get info, check the Run in 32bit mode box !
Tada!
August 6th, 2009
I have just upgraded my Macbook pro to 10.5.8.
I didn’t use the combo update for two reasons:
1) My ADSL is totally messed up, waiting for Bell to fix it, so 700+megs is insane for an update
2) I figured that since my OS X install was about a WEEK OLD that it could handle updates easily.
The install went fine, I rebooted.. and now I can’t even launch Firefox 3.5 !
Update: I rebooted a second time, and now Firefox seems to work fine. My spotlight index appears to be wiped, which I assume is normal.
Weird.
