Jul
09
2009
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. …
May
29
2009
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 …
Apr
26
2009
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 …
Jan
20
2009
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 …
Jan
03
2009
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.
Oct
06
2008
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 …
Mar
25
2008
Safari 3.1 adds some important updates for web developers: Adds option in Safari preferences to turn on the new Develop menu which contains various web development features Allows access to Web Inspector Allows access to Network Timeline Allows editing CSS in the Web Inspector Allows custom user agent string Improves snippet editor I was very …
Mar
11
2008
today i noticed after a reboot (i do that very rarely), that my iStats Menu CPU monitor shows me heavy CPU load. I fired up Activity Monitor and found that syslogd is using 90% – 100% cpu power – bad syslogd! I did some research on the net and found quiete some hints relating Time …
Mar
10
2008
I had again some troubles with my XSan. I have 1 MDC (client/controller) and 2 clients and 2 Volumes on the XRaid. All clients and all volumes automounted as expected, except one volume on one of the clients I saw the client in the list for that particular volume in the XSan Admin application, but …
Mar
03
2008
After updating Leopard to version 10.5.2 using Software Update, iSync stopped working – it flashed in the dock, but never opened Luckily i found this dirty but awful simple trick to get it back to working: open Applications folder drag iSync app to your desktop open iSync from desktop -> it works! drag iSync from …