To enable Time Machine to use your network attached share type this in Terminal:
1 | defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1 |
Now you can select your network share in the Time Machine preferences:
I use Yamaha’s studio manager 2 application from time to time to manage and backup some digital mixers we have (O1V96, O2R, …). Because i use it rarely i had recently troubles to sync the data from my mac with the hardware. Here are the steps to follow:
The reason to write this blog entry is step 6. I have used this succesfully a long time ago and when i needed it most, it didn’t work. The cause of the problem was that i updated the USB drivers and the port names for my desk have changed, so step 6 was the most important one, because i had to select the right ports! In my opinion it’s a bit odd to setup the port inside the desks editor first and make a total recall afterwards, but ok, that’s the yamaha way to do it.
umask is a UNIX command to set the default permissions for newly created files and folders. Especially when you have to share your files with other users on your computer or on a network share the default umask of 022 which Mac OS X uses is not very handy, it would be better if all users of a group could write files by default. For that a umask of 002 is needed.
Apple has a knowledge base article addressing this issue. It’s quiet easy, all you have to do is to create two files in /etc in your terminal. You need to have administrator level on your system to do that:
/etc/launchd-user.conf
1 | umask 002 |
/etc/launchd.conf
1 | umask 002 |
If you like to live on the bleeding edge of instant messaging, you may like to chat with your Facebook buddies by using your default Instant Messenger on a Mac: iChat. But wait, there are some pros / cons for this method:
+ only one Instant Messenger for iChat, AIM, Jabber and MSN, Yahoo, etc. (using Jabber transports)
- you have to accept a request for each facebook buddy when he / she gets online for the first time
- as of now, no facebook buddy names get displayed in iChat, you have to name each of your facebook buddies by hand (each buddy gets an entry in your address book)
If you really wannt to dig into that and don’t want to wait for Facebook to implement Jabber instant messaging as they stated in early 2008, here’s how to do it:
Read more…
For quiete some time it bothers me that i’m not able to update apps for my iPhone / iPod Touch directly in iTunes. I get a notification that some apps have been updated, but when i click on this link, i enter the infinite loop of login to the appStore: i enter my username / password correctly, but get the login window again and again and again …
Today i finally found a solution for that problem here.
Nearly at the end of the thread user “X Rookie” got the right hint for me. The problem wasn’t iTunes or Mac OS X, the problem was NetBarrier! I use it as my personal firewall and like it, but somehow a setting in the data privacy part of the program caused all the trouble and i didn’t set it 
After unchecking the “hide my AppleID when using iTunes MiniStore” checkbox, the problems with the appStore updates are gone 
Starting with Pro Tools 7.x it’s possible to have both Pro Tools LE and Pro Tools M-powered running on the same system. I have Pro Tools 8 installed (both flavours) and first thought it’s no big deal. But then i was experiencing some problems:
When i first installed M-powered and then LE and started LE it seemed everything’s ok, even when i switched back to M-powered everything looked fine. But then when i actually started working in M-powered it started to crash constantly, e.g. when i tried to add a new track oder make a new group, etc.
Ok, i then reinstalled M-powered and got the reverse problem: everything worked fine i M-powered and LE kept crashing.
The solution to that problem is so easy, yet hard to find:
I had different versions of these two apps. Pro Tools LE was running with 8.0cs2 and Pro Tools M-powered was version 8.0.
After installing the CS2 patch for M-powered the problems had gone. Easy to oversee, so i had to post it 
I tried to burn both DVD-R DL and DVD+R DL media on my (pre late) 2008 macbook pro with no luck. Toast 9 reported a “Media Error” and i also got an error when i tried it by burning a folder directly with Finder. After some googling i found a very easy, yet very successful fix:
clean your DVD drives lens
Yes, it’s really that simple! I put an old and very cheap DVD lens cleaning DVD in my builtin slotloading DVD drive, let it spin for some seconds and then hit the eject button. After this cleaning Toast started burned my DVD+R DL disk without trouble. I will try it with DVD-R DL next.
Update: even DVD-R DL are working without a problem now!
After playing around with my LaFonera and ddWRT i decided to go back to the original LaFonera firmware. I liked ddWRT for it’s feature-richness, but as my requirements changed i don’t need the router to sit inside the LaFonera and thought it would be good to re-join the fon community
I found most of the commands to achieve this on Stefano Testi’s Blog in this article. I ran into some problems because i tried this on Mac OS X, so i added some steps to this procedure to succeed.
Today i plugged my iPod Touch into my USB port and got an akward error saying iTunes cannot sync my iPod because syncing is disabled and asked me to enabled it. I clicked yes and got a second dialog saying “Cannot enable syncing” and i could click “Override” or “OK”. The odd thing: both choices yield no success and i was left with a sync of my iPod but without my addresse, calendars, bookmarks being synced
After some research and luck i found this solution:
First i repaired my file permissions using Disk Utility, even restarted and run the command again -> no luck, but as found here it helped other people.
Then i found out that not only iTunes stopped syncing, iSync itself reports an error message when starting. The message was “Sync Services: Can’t connect to the sync server …” Luckily i found the topic “iSync can’t be launched” at the Apple Discussions.
I deleted ~/Library/Application Support/SyncServices/Local/ and restarted iSync. It took some time to recreate the Local folder, but then iSync started and the syncing in iTunes works again. Just had to enable the syncing for address book, … for my iPod on the “Info” tab.
Safari 3.1 adds some important updates for web developers:
I was very happy to see that editing CSS in the web inspector is now possible – just inspect a part of your website with ctrl-click – inspect element and double click on a style in the styles bar to edit it and see the update immediately in the browser window.
Warning: you have to inspect a element and then be sure to use the styles, not the computed styles to see the changes! Unfortunately the computed styles are at the top of the window – so stay away from the computed styles, editing is not possible for these!