Just for the record, I updated my 2009 MBP 13" from 4GB of RAM to 8GB of RAM. From the factory it was spec'ed to have a maximum of 4GB, but somewhere along the road Apple updated the BIOS/EFI to allow 8. Maybe it was around the release of Lion, but as long as you have it you are ready. It wasn't trouble free for me as I initially purchased two 4GB 1333MHz DD3 from Crucial thinking the Mac would underclock them to the specified 1066MHz. Nope. Multiple hard-as-a-rock crashes, not even a blue screen or grey screen or reboot, just stopped. Windows via Bootcamp would start and run for a bit at 1333MHz, but MacOS wouldn't even get close. Swapped them SODIMMs out for 1066MHz parts and everything was great. I've had a two hard freezes since the upgrade, but not sure if it is x64 compatibility with some of my engineering hardware drivers or what.
I really wanted an SSD for the laptop, but I needed at least 500GB which was just too much money for now, so I found a Seagate Momentous 750GB Hybrid drive on Amazon. It is a 7200RPM laptop hard drive with an 8GB SSD buffer integrated, with 32MB of RAM buffer, too. I found it for just $20 more than a regular 750GB so I went for it. Turns out it was a good choice! Loading the operating systems and dev tools is very noticeably faster, and I was coming from a Western Digital Scorpio Black 320GB 7200RPM drive. Since then I read some reviews at Gizmodo and Anandtech and my feelings were confirmed by their benchmarks. Sometimes you get SSD performance and sometimes you are limited by the spinning platters but still get performance as good as a high end desktop disk. I'm so happy I ordered another one for my 2007 iMac because I'm tired of hearing the factory 3.5" drive churn and I'm pretty sure it'll breath new life in to the ol' girl.
[UPDATE 1/9/2013]
Love the upgrade still, the initial freezes must have been unrelated. Everything is great working the old computer to death with Mountain Lion, Parallels 7, and Windows 7 x64. My wife's new Core i7 MacBook Air with 8GB of RAM and 512GB SSD is making me look kinda dumb now though.
S
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Microsoft Office Crashing When Editing Chart Titles
Wow, it's been 3 months since my last post. I guess I'm not learning enough! Well, that's not true. It's been a busy time of moving to a new home, moving also to a new office, releasing a new software product, and crazy holidays. It's fun!
Today's biggie is a result of changing my Boot Camp installation to Windows 7 x64. After the complete redo of my Windows partition I had the strangest problem of Office 2007 crashing 100% of the time when I tried to edit the chart or axis title of a chart in Excel. I think it also happened when editing text blocks in Paint. Well after LOTS of searching, service pack installs, and many restarts I found this: Microsoft Technet
In summary this is all you need to do, and from what I read it affects Office 2007 and Office 2010 equally, for me it was only the x64 version, but you never know.
Today's biggie is a result of changing my Boot Camp installation to Windows 7 x64. After the complete redo of my Windows partition I had the strangest problem of Office 2007 crashing 100% of the time when I tried to edit the chart or axis title of a chart in Excel. I think it also happened when editing text blocks in Paint. Well after LOTS of searching, service pack installs, and many restarts I found this: Microsoft Technet
In summary this is all you need to do, and from what I read it affects Office 2007 and Office 2010 equally, for me it was only the x64 version, but you never know.
- Open Control Panel
- In view mode “View by Category”, find the section “Clock, Language and Region”
- Click “Change Keyboards or other input methods”
- Press the button “Change Keyboards”
- Press the button “Add”
- Scroll down to “English (United States)” and expand.
- Check box “US”
- Press OK.
- Press OK. — You’ll see two keyboards listed “US” and “United States (Apple)”
- Press OK.
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Magic Safari Disappearing Trick
Maybe its an old developer bug/Easter egg, or a iPhone 2G jailbreak shadow hanging on, but since I can remember (iPhone 3G iOS3, iPhone 3GS iOS4, iPhone 4S iOS5) triple tapping my Safari icon will make it disappear and the only way to bring it back is to move the icons around which makes it pop back, but it still won't work anymore. I have to restart the phone to make it work, otherwise I need to use the taskbar or search in Spotlight to open the app. None of my co-workers or family have the phenomenon. Anyone else?
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Shortcuts to WiFi and Other Settings on iPhone Homescreen
Finally! One click access to the WiFi switch without having to jailbreak.
http://iphoneza.co.za/IconSettings/
Thx u for the WiFiz.
http://iphoneza.co.za/IconSettings/
Thx u for the WiFiz.
Friday, November 11, 2011
Broken Visual Studio 2008/2010 Wizards?
On multiple computers at various times I have run into this INSANELY frustrating issue where creating a new project in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 or 2010 will fail when the created project type brings up one of those Application Wizard screens. The symptom is that instead of the Wizard showing its content a File Download window pops up asking if you want to save, open, or cancel the download of Default.htm. Microsoft is surprisingly quiet on the issue, but its gone on a for a long time, since the IE7 days and VS2005, judging from the forums. I searched for "Visual Studio Wizard Navigation to this webpage cancelled" and every variant I could think of and tried multiple solutions until I found this: Microsoft Forum that at the very bottom linked to this: Registry Keys to Fix the Problem in which you can find the ".htm" fixer. The registry keys that it defines are extensive, and I haven't gone through all of the file to see what exactly it does, but it does work. Disclaimer is that I've only used this on Windows 7 32-bit.
Here is a listing of the registry keys from the second link, for posterity:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.htm]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.htm]"PerceivedType"="text"@="htmlfile""Content Type"="text/html"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.htm\OpenWithList]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.htm\OpenWithList\notepad.exe]@=""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.htm\PersistentHandler]@="{eec97550-47a9-11cf-b952-00aa0051fe20}"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile]"AppUserModelID"="Microsoft.InternetExplorer.Default"@="HTML Document""FriendlyTypeName"="@C:\\Windows\\System32\\ieframe.dll,-912"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\CLSID]@="{25336920-03F9-11cf-8FD0-00AA00686F13}"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\DefaultIcon]@=hex(2):25,00,50,00,72,00,6f,00,67,00,72,00,61,00,6d,00,46,00,69,00,6c,00,65,\ 00,73,00,25,00,5c,00,49,00,6e,00,74,00,65,00,72,00,6e,00,65,00,74,00,20,00,\ 45,00,78,00,70,00,6c,00,6f,00,72,00,65,00,72,00,5c,00,69,00,65,00,78,00,70,\ 00,6c,00,6f,00,72,00,65,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00,65,00,2c,00,2d,00,31,00,37,00,\ 00,00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\ScriptHostEncode]@="{0CF774D0-F077-11D1-B1BC-00C04F86C324}"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell]@="opennew"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\open]@="Open in S&ame Window""MUIVerb"="@C:\\Windows\\System32\\ieframe.dll,-5732"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\open\command]@="\"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Internet Explorer\\iexplore.exe\" -nohome"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\open\ddeexec]@="\"file://%1\",,-1,,,,,""NoActivateHandler"=""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\open\ddeexec\Application]@="IExplore"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\open\ddeexec\Topic]@="WWW_OpenURL"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\opennew]@="&Open""MUIVerb"="@C:\\Windows\\System32\\ieframe.dll,-5731"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\opennew\command]@="\"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Internet Explorer\\iexplore.exe\" %1"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\opennew\ddeexec]@="\"%1\",,-1,0,,,,""NoActivateHandler"=""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\opennew\ddeexec\Application]@="IExplore"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\opennew\ddeexec\IfExec]@="*"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\opennew\ddeexec\Topic]@="WWW_OpenURLNewWindow"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\print]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\print\command]@=hex(2):72,00,75,00,6e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,33,00,32,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00,65,\ 00,20,00,25,00,77,00,69,00,6e,00,64,00,69,00,72,00,25,00,5c,00,73,00,79,00,\ 73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,6d,00,73,00,68,00,74,00,6d,00,6c,\ 00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,2c,00,50,00,72,00,69,00,6e,00,74,00,48,00,54,00,\ 4d,00,4c,00,20,00,22,00,25,00,31,00,22,00,00,00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\printto]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\printto\command]@=hex(2):72,00,75,00,6e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,33,00,32,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00,65,\ 00,20,00,25,00,77,00,69,00,6e,00,64,00,69,00,72,00,25,00,5c,00,73,00,79,00,\ 73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,6d,00,73,00,68,00,74,00,6d,00,6c,\ 00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,2c,00,50,00,72,00,69,00,6e,00,74,00,48,00,54,00,\ 4d,00,4c,00,20,00,22,00,25,00,31,00,22,00,20,00,22,00,25,00,32,00,22,00,20,\ 00,22,00,25,00,33,00,22,00,20,00,22,00,25,00,34,00,22,00,00,00
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile_FullWindowEmbed]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile_FullWindowEmbed]@="HTML Plugin Document""AppUserModelID"="Microsoft.InternetExplorer.Default"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile_FullWindowEmbed\CLSID]@="{25336921-03F9-11CF-8FD0-00AA00686F13}"
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.htm]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.htm]"PerceivedType"="document"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.htm\ShellEx]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.htm\ShellEx\{8895b1c6-b41f-4c1c-a562-0d564250836f}]@="{f8b8412b-dea3-4130-b36c-5e8be73106ac}"
[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.htm]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.htm]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.htm\OpenWithProgids]"htmlfile"=hex(0):
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Play Spotify Over Airplay from Mac
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Apple USB-Ethernet Adapter Drivers for Windows 7 64-bit [UPDATED x2]
Through a series of incredibly unbelievable events I ended up needing to use an Apple USB-Ethernet adapter on this fully loaded Alienware M17X laptop running Windows 7 64-bit. The rest of you will probably be approaching this from the much more believable but equally incredible event of installing Boot Camp on your new MacBook Air. Congratulations.
[UPDATE 1/9/2013]
The driver link below has been updated now that MobileMe is dead!
[UPDATE 9/14/2011]
The proper driver is now included in Boot Camp 4.0 from Apple. At the time of this writing the only way to get 4.0 is to download it from your Mac by running Boot Camp assistant and asking it to download Windows support files.
[/UPDATE]
Originally posted 8/10/2011...
Anyway, why these drivers are so hard to find is beyond me. Here’s the link to them on my iDisk. When iDisk becomes iCloud I will have to update this link, remind me if necessary. Apple USB-Ethernet Win7 64-bit Drivers
The .ini files were modified as taught by: YouGottaBeKiddingYou
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