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Drilling Holes into your MacBook Air…

…seems like perhaps a weird thing to do. But it actually does make sense.

Find out your BabyPing Camera to use with the BabyPing Viewer

So it has been quite a while since I have published the BabyPingViewer app on the app store. The reception was great, yet there is one recurring question that people raise: Since BabyPing has modified their way to create a password for the admin user, now depending on the...

2014/11/16 by mnott Computer 3

Add Pinch-In and Pinch-Out (Icon Zoom) back into Apple’s Finder

Ok, this has annoyed many people out there, including me: Apple found it clever to remove the pinch gesture on the icon view of the Finder window. For what ever reason, but it was annoying me enough to find a solution.

2014/11/01 by mnott MacOS Hacks 6

Speed Improvement with Yosemite

I’ve recently upgraded to MacOS 10.10, a.k.a. Yosemite. Here’s a measurement of my wired throughput to my server. Before, I got a maximum of about 75 MB/sec on large files. This is a nice improvement…

2014/10/30 by mnott MacOS 0

Lync cycles login on Yosemite (fixed)

When connecting with Lync on Yosemite, and your primary system language is not English (how could that potentially be…), Lync up to 14.0.9 will cycle the login process. Microsoft has acknowledge the problem and provided for a fix.

2014/10/30 by mnott MacOS 0

Thermal Problem with MacBook Air 2013

Same procedure as last year, Ms Sophie? I’ve had another round of checking Apple’s Thermal Paste, this time on two MacBook Air’s I’ve bought about a year ago. And, just like before, same problem.

2014/10/29 by mnott MacOS 2

So that’s how it looks if you upgrade your WIFI…

Three Nighthawk X6‘s arrived. Bricked one hacking it misconfiguring DD-WRT; serial cable debricks it. Here’s some throughput that brings it to precisely half my wired network connection (measured OTA from my 2013 Macbook Air to my server which is wired using Gigabit LAN / Cat7 to the routers, measured...

2014/10/06 by mnott Hacks Computer 0