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Comment on Eliminate Your Unreliable Hard Drive with a Solid State Drive by David Balogh

David Balogh — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 22:03:20 +0000

@The Pontificator: Apple is definitely going in the SSD direction as well. And once you get one, its tough to go back. As far as my hiatus.. I became a little too busy to maintain my post schedule but thanks for visiting after such a long time!

Comment on Eliminate Your Unreliable Hard Drive with a Solid State Drive by The Pontificator

The Pontificator — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 02:46:32 +0000

My next Mac will definitely run an SSD of some kind.

Good article.

BTW…where have you been? Haven’t seen a new article posted to this blog in like 2 years?

Comment on Replacing an External Drive by Angel

Angel — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 09:17:47 +0000

@ David – Amazing find. It will let me to put the “Go as far as you can see, when you get there you’ll see further” saying to the test.

I thank you, and appreciate the help.

Comment on Replacing an External Drive by David Balogh

David Balogh — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 21:30:26 +0000

@ Angel – Great question! I found a Flickr photoset with some pictures that might help. It looks like you remove the feet and pry open the casing on the underside. Be careful not to damage anything when opening the case. Here’s the link:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bartclaeys/2462751758/

Comment on Replacing an External Drive by Angel

Angel — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 14:36:19 +0000

Would love to know how to take apart the LaCie brick desktop hard drive that looks like an oversized Lego. I like it too much so I could replace the supplied hard disk, should the need arise. I have done this to the LaCie d2 FireWire but it seems to me the brick design make things is a lot more tricky.

Comment on Check up on your Internet Service Provider by ali alquraan

ali alquraan — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:36:15 +0000

-what is the reson if the ping is too high in adsl service ………….and what is the mormal ,example:if the ping is around 200 is this normal and if it’s around 300$400why????
-when i can visit website but i can’t ping on it, why????

Comment on Dealing with Microsoft Access Files and OS X by David

David — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 01:10:27 +0000

With Microsoft Office 2010 for Windows, there will be a new option:

Option Five – Sharepoint 2010 with Access Services:

Although development will require Access 2010 running on Windows (virtualization included), publishing a web database to Sharepoint 2010 will be accessible on Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari and give full read/write access to the web database and created by the developer. It’s certainly a good option for multi-platform client access.

Comment on Dealing with Microsoft Access Files and OS X by Tune Up Your PC » Post Topic » This Week in Access

Tune Up Your PC » Post Topic » This Week in Access — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:43 +0000

[...] Using Access with Apple OSX. Cool little article about how Access can be used on a mac. http://www.interrupt19.com/2009/11/09/microsoft-access-files-os-x/ [...]

Comment on Dealing With 10 Common MacBook/Pro Problems by David Balogh

David Balogh — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:48:58 +0000

@Sherprinia – You’re going to need the OS X Install DVD to reset it. Or just take your Mac to the Apple Store (or Apple repair center) closest to you and they’ll be able to help you out.

Comment on Dealing With 10 Common MacBook/Pro Problems by Sherprinia

Sherprinia — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:53:54 +0000

Can anyone help me to figure out how to change an admin passwrd, but can’t remember the old one. I either mispelled the current passwrd, and the thing won’t let me change the od passwrd cause I don’t have the old one. What must I do you all, I know that there is a very computer savy person out there that would to love 2 make some extra cash, right?

Comment on Connect your Mac to an HDMI or DVI HDTV by Michael

Michael — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 04:31:41 +0000

Things are changing very quickly for Apple users where multi-media is concerned and how one can use their Mac hooked up to an HDTV.

As stated, the Mac Mini can be a very good option for playback to a 720p or 1080p HDTV. A few things to consider would include – types of movie media to play and, what player use. What I suggest is that if you have a Mac Mini 2.26 running CPU or greater, explore the use of PLEX or XBMC. They are extremely flexible home theater front ends on the Mac. There is a small learning curve but they are both FREE and meant to be front ends for your Mac_to_HDTV. The Mac Mini can provide two types of audio output – digital and analogue. The former providing the ability to do 5.1 surround and the latter stereo.

If you have DVDs and Blu Ray that you wish to archive to a hard drive, enlist the use of MakeMKV. When this software scans your purchased DVD or Blu Ray, it will give you options on what you want to do/save. In most cases, it would be the main movie, audio (5.1) and as needed, subtitles. It is a FREE software for now as it remains long term in beta. The above software can play these types of mkv files. There are of course other tools to convert into either smaller files (Handbrake comes to mind) or more standard formats such as .mt2s or .ts files (more like the original blu ray).

if you plan to use 5.1 surround, consider running the digital out of your Mac Mini into a receiver capable of toslink input and surround output. Both XBMC and PLEX have avid users who constantly add advice and answer questions in their respective site forums.

Last – if you like gadgets and to get more bang out of your system, there are ways to merge* the digital/analogue audio out with the dvi/displayport video and end up with HDMI going to your HDTV. What this does is give you one cable to your TV and ideally beyond less clutter, a nice way to to use the audio out passthru of your TV like your other equipment.

Comment on How To Spellcheck in Another Language with Word, Pages, and OS X by Pat

Pat — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:02:39 +0000

Thanx, I was looking every where to do that on pages.

Thank you very much.

Comment on How To Spellcheck in Another Language with Word, Pages, and OS X by David Balogh

David Balogh — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 15:35:15 +0000

@Ken: Word 2008 / OS X / Pages will spell check Russian but if the grammar checking doesn’t work you may have better luck with Word 2007 (Windows Only).

Comment on How To Spellcheck in Another Language with Word, Pages, and OS X by Ken

Ken — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 13:17:28 +0000

Hi,

the spellcheck is great but does grammar check work also? Haven’t found a way of grammar checking in Russian

Thanks,
Ken

Comment on Don’t Let Winter Ruin Your Laptop by David Balogh

David Balogh — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:59:04 +0000

@ Cheryl: If the air is super dry, a humidifier might help you out. I usually get a shock from my MacBook Pro in the dry winter air.