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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/11/11
Having written how to run Mac OS X Lion in a VM, it is handy how to know to rename your Mac: networks don’t like having multiple machines with the same name :)
It is easy:
–jeroen
Via: How to rename your Mac? – MacRumors Forums.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/10/25
Somehow, Apple made file shareing between Mac OSX and Windows a lot harder with OS X Lion.
My Mac Mini Server at home (running OS X Leopard Server) connectso Windows with ease (and vice versa).
But I could only connect from Windows to an OS X Lion share on my sevelopment setup.
The tips in File Sharing Mac OS X Lion and PC Windows 7 | Mac OS X allowed me to share the files on my OS X Lion machine form Windows 7, but not the other way around. The Access PC Windows 7 Files from a Mac OS X Lion tips didn’t accomplish that either.
Bummer.
–jeroenp
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/10/14
This might not be strictly legal, but it is supposed to be possible to run the retail OS X Lion 10.7 under VMware Workstation 8 (or VMware Fusion 4) and VMware Workstation 7.1.4 (or VMware Player 3.1.4) on a regular PC (if that PC Supports VT) running Windows 7 x64.
Since Apple MacBook still don’t come with a TrackPoint (and having suffered from RSI, that is about the only pointing device I can use) there are only two options for me:
–jeroen
Via: How to Install Retail OS X 10.6 under VMware Workstation or Player – InsanelyMac Forum and
How to Install Retail OS X 10.6 “Snow” and OS X 10.7 “Lion” under VMware Workstation 8 and Fusion 4, A simple set of instructions – InsanelyMac Forum
Posted in Apple, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, Power User, RSI, UltraNav keyboards, VMware, Windows, Windows 7 | 1 Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/10/10
Press Ctrl–Option–Command–8 in your colleagues keyboard and watch them getting their inverted colours back :)
It is like the 3-finger salute on Windows, but much much nicer, as the inversion is all done on the GPU hardware :)
–jeroen
Via: How to Invert Colors on a Mac – wikiHow.
Posted in Apple, Fun, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, LifeHacker, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, Power User | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/10/03
In their infinite wisdom Apple has chosen to cripple the Apple keyboards on the MacBook (and -Pro and -Air) to default the top-row keys to not behave as function keys.
Apparently they expect people to use those keys more often for changing screen brightness, multi media playing, sound volume, than as function keys.
Maybe it is their 1 Infinite Loop address, but out there in the real world, people appreciate the function keys by default to behave, well like they are meant for: Function Keys and not having to press the fn key to use them.
Actually, some people at Apple were smart enough to make this configurable, but it is well hidden behind the phrase “Use F1-F12 keys to control software features” as the MacRumors Forums 2007 post titled “View Single Post – How To F Lock?” points out.
In the mean time however, the Mac OS X System Preferences to reorganized quite a bit, and “Keyboard & Mouse” are now to separate entries. So the steps are now these:
Press Command-Space to start the Spotlight WindowThere even seem to be some answers on the Apple discussion forums seem to hint on this, but – at the time of writing – they all conveniently show up as “We’ll be back soon” for some time now, thereby redefining the term “shortly” in the same pass:
Being in this mode, it would be soooooo nice if actually they marked the option key with the same character as they refer to it from the menus: ⌥.
They used to on older versions of the option key (even on old MacBook Pro machines). Now that would be consistent user experience…
Now people have to find the right Apple documentation on keyboard shortcuts to find out what the symbols mean.
But – though often famed for consistency – I don’t think it is one of Apple strengths.
–jeroen
via: MacRumors Forums – View Single Post – How To F Lock?.
Posted in Apple, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, Mac, MacBook, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, Power User | 2 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/09/30
If you use Mac and Windows machines, then – despite the Mac keyboards – it sometimes is handy to use Mac to remote login to a Windows machine.
For that, the Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac 2.1.1 (especially the download <g>) comes in handy.
–jeroen
via: Microsoft Office for Mac Downloads and Updates | Office For Mac.
Posted in Apple, LifeHacker, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, Power User, Usability, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/09/20
One of the things hard when doing FireMonkey iOS development Delphi XE2 is that you have a multi stage process:
Basically you need to share your project files both ways between Windows and OS X.
Naturally, you would share files between your Mac and Windows using Samba. With the introduction of OS X Lion, the Samba support was rewritten, causing all sorts of problems.
One of the problems is that it uses a lot of CPU (I tried copying over a 40GB VM, and stopped because the fan in my MacBook Air was making so much noise, I was afraid it was going to take off).
I didn’t even realize it had one, but a MacBook Air has a Fan, and it vents through the keyboard :)
Now I use DropBox to share files between it. If you like that to, sign up with the URL at the end of this line. The 2GB account is free! http://db.tt/6f95UJW
And if you know a better way of sharing: please let me know!
–jeroen
Via: Dropbox – Referrals – Simplify your life.
Posted in Apple, Delphi, Development, FireMonkey, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, Power User, Software Development | 15 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/09/16
Right after finding out VMware Fusion 4 got released, I downloaded and installed it.
Basically, there are two VMware Fusion 4.0.1 downloads:
I can’t imagine McAfee being larger than the size of VMware, and if it has the same speed impact on a Mac as it has on PCs, then don’t get it: get the light version.
–jeroen
Via: Download VMware Fusion 4.
Posted in Apple, Fusion, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, Power User, VMware | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/09/15
My MacBook Air has arrived, a few days before VMware Fusion 4 got out and a very early preview of Windows 8 got released.
Time to move my iOS dev env from my Mac Mini Server dev env over to this fully loaded 13.3 inch MacBook Air model (A1369 with 1.8GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7 / 4GB 1333MHz DDR3 SDRAM / 256GB Flash Storage).
A few initial observations on the MacBook Air:
Oh well, will install it at the Embarcadero office later this week.
A few things on VMware Fusion 4:
Time to have a lot of fun :)
–jeroen
Via: VMware: VMware Support Insider: Fusion 4 is here!.
http://www.everymac.com/ultimate-mac-lookup/?search_keywords=A1369
Posted in About, Apple, LifeHacker, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, Personal, Power User, VMware | 1 Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/08/08
If you have a Mac, and enabled automatic login, then it is vulnerable to a FireWire password snooping bug.
Looking at that article, you should either:
–jeroen
via: Mac OS X Lion reveals passwords in sleep mode? | The Digital Home – CNET News.
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