Category: OSX / Apple / Steve Jobbs

if hfs+ is greyed out in gparted there is hfs+ compatibility software missing hint: sudo should be up and running, or gparted won’t be able to open a display (as root) and won’t be able to create partitions (as non […]

“Apple Wireless Direct Link (AWDL) is a key protocol in Apple’s ecosystem used by over one billion iOS and macOS devices for device-to-device communications. AWDL is a proprietary extension of the IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi) standard and integrates with Bluetooth Low […]

contains advertisement. to be honest, it is hard to keep up the speed at which cyber incidents are reported. here is the latest take on “Russian IT Sec Updates”. have phun!   SecurityLab, [28.09.20 08:20] Last month, TikTok developers rolled […]

probably THE most important film, that every school kid (of the age of 16) should have seen (highly recommend to cut out the violent scenes) 1984 mass surveillance: for a better world? as people might have noticed: privacy is survival […]

Weapons of Mac Destruction: MACs OSX no longer safe? Apple takes it security seriously iOS secured locked down “blackbox” zero days exist against fully patched iOS devices: at the same time the lock down makes it almost impossible for user […]

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to be straight: have not managed yet to unlock a pin locked ipad 3 and ipad 4 and/or recover the data. it is easy to just overwrite the ipad with the latest firmware via itunes. but i want to backup […]

On computers with SSD system drives any iOS device backups can take up a significant proportion of the available space. iTunes doesn’t provide a mechanism for choosing where this backup data is stored, but it can be relocated onto another […]

aim: the harddisk of a macbook has grown too small (256GB), so all data shall be transferred to a new bigger harddisk (512GB SSD) hardware: you will need an external harddisk and switch in your new bigger harddisk. usb to […]

Macs used to be overpriced high quality hardware: this iMac model A1418 with Retina Display costs 1500€ and it does not even come with an SSD! DESPITE i5 QUADCORE CPU AND 8GB OF RAM – IT IS HORRIBLY SLOW! APPLE […]

most people will probably use a usb cable to iphone<->PC/Laptop<->USB-Stick. But can it be done iphone<->USB-Stick? Apple’s devices do NOT come with a file explorer per default. which sucks. So you will have to rely on the quality of 3rd […]

what is great about mumble: clients exist for Windows, OSX, (at least Debian/Ubuntu) Linux and even Android and IPhone. the audio quality is SUPERB (better than phone) if you use good headphones like sennheiser a disadvantage is the reverb that […]

200Watt WHEN IDLE ! 300Watt under Full CPU Load. WTF? Quiet a lot 😀 Get a GIADA F-300 and reduce it (including Screent) to 50Watts!

did i actually mention how i love it that those Gnome guys copied the OSX settings menu? ( can’t wait until Microloft comes around) it’s pretty and good usability.. simply search for something… and find the right setting. here is […]

… das ist deswegen, weil man wenigstens ein zuverlässiges Gerät braucht (auf welchem so gut wie keine Software installiert ist, nur das nötigste), welches zuverlässig die E-Mails abruft und einen relativ sicher im Internet surfen lässt und auch so “einfache” Dinge […]

OSX can Run 64Bit Processes on 32Bit Kernel! (and hardware?) wow! http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/2498/why-can-mac-os-x-32-bit-access-all-4gb-of-memory-while-windows-32-bit-cant http://superuser.com/questions/453090/mac-osx-32bit-or-64bit OSX is 32Bit an CAN address more than 4GB of RAM ! (this line is written on a Dual XEON with 12GB RAM) All Versions of OSX have a […]

When Windows goes out of RAM… things get slow… when Apple goes out of RAM things get “sluggish”… (you really can almost see the cursor stutter) I really don’t know what happened… okay i loaded my 50MB TODO List (it’s […]

How to remove and clean Macbook Pro keyboard keys the problem with the spacebar was that a tiny tiny tiny little piece of plastic broke off the bar and caused the bar to stick.

Apple was innovative while Jobs was alive, but also was taking freedom away from it’s users by forcing them to use iTunes to upload music to their iPods and iPhones. OSX won’t even let you remove iTunes… but you can […]

# become root sudo bash # edit file vim /etc/rc.common # this is how the end of the file looks like # hit Ctrl+G to jump to the bottom of the file ## # Generic action handler ## RunService () […]

The Story: Beeing fed up with OSX 10.8.6 (performance is significantly worse (my old macbook boots faster than the new one) they changed hotkeys and menus and i can’t produce *.gif with preview no more… since Jobs is dead – […]

  i use preview a lot. sadly in the new version of osx… there is no *.gif anymore…. only space consuming *.png especially when saving screenshots like this file: *.gif is a real space (and bandwidth!) saver!

2013: WHY OSX IS STILL BETTER THAN WINDOWS XP, 7 OR 8 Leave a reply my mac story goes like this… i hated windows since windows 95… it was buggy, it crashed all the time… you had to reinstall every 10x […]