Archive - 2011

I have a very old MacBook Pro. It is a MA610 /A1211 (MacBookPro2,1, 15-inch, 2.33 GHz T7600, ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 Graphics card), released at late 2006. I wanted to install Windows 7 on it. Now the Windows 7 on my old MacBook Pro works fine. It took me two whole days to install Windows 7 on my old Mac. I met all kinds of problems and tried hard finding way to fix these problems. Now I know how to do it in a right way, so I write this post to share it. I hope it may help you. If you have any question or problem, you are welcome to leave a comment.Read more >>

Some MacBook, MacBook Pro or MacBook Air won't wake up from sleep. My MacBook Pro was one of them. I have been googling for two days, and I learnt different ways to fix the problem. Not all the MacBooks can be fixed by the same one solution. Here I collect five common ways to fix the waking up problem together (trying to save time for others). If your MacBook doesn't wake up from sleep, you may try and see which solution works for yours. If any solution works, you may leave a message including your MacBook model and the solution. It may help the others.Read more >>

Solution 1.Select a Startup Disk in System Preferences

By default, when VLC takes a snapshot, it saves the file to desktop, and names it with prefix vlcsnap, date and video time. If there are lots of snapshots, it is hard to identify from which video one snapshot was taken from. It will be much easier if the snapshots are named after the media filenames. Luckily, it is not hard to do this, and here is how:
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I have a Macbook pro, and it has a 64G SSD. I install lion on the disk. Lion OS takes lots of space, and not much space left, so I took the superdrive away and installed a second 500G HDD on my Macbook pro. But Google Picasa, the photo manager app take Gigas space on SSD for cache purpose (thumbnails, indexes…). Here I will show you how to move these data off you SSD to Hard Disk Drive:

First, create a new folder on your HDD, name it whatever you want. I will call mine "appsupport".
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I wrote how to install Android 2.2 (CM4IS01) on Sharp IS01 /Sh-10B. The newer version of cm4is01 have been out for a while since then. This is a updated post on the how to install new CyanogenMod on IS01. Sorry for the late.Read more >>

What's new with new CyanogenMod Android 2.2 for Sharp IS01 /sh-10B

• earphone now works out of box, no need fixing anymore
• volume up / volume down short cuts work
• GPU enable
• camera works
• new memory menaging system
• Sreen lock, auto wake up when the screen be open(need patch, just follow my installation guide)

NOTE: new version of CM4IS01 has been out. The headphones work out of box now!

Headphones or earphones does not work on IS01 with CM4IS01. I read this post and get way to make it work. Here is how:
download apktool
for windows:
apktool-install-windows-xxxxxxxxx.tar.bz2
apktool1.x.x.tar.bz2

for mac
apktool1.x.x.tar.bz2
apktool-install-macosx-xxxxxxxxx.tar.bz2

extract all files and put them under one directory. Should be three files.Read more >>

This is the feedback page of: Country Codes, Dialing Codes, Currencies and TimeZones of Countries.

Leave a comment if you have noticed any error or outdated information on the page.

I installed Lion on another partition, then migrated the data from Snow Leopard disk to the new Lion system yesterday. Almost everything worked fine, except mysql, php, and mlDonkey did not work, but I fixed these problems.

Restore the scrolling direction of Mouse

System->Preferences->Mouse
uncheck "Move content in the direction of finger movement when scrolling or navigating"

Logitech Control Center

If you use Logitech mouse like me, you need to upgrade the Logitech Control Center application. Only new LCC supports Mission Control.

xcode 4.1

I use macports to install mysql and other tools. Macports needs Xcode. Lion uses new Xcode 4.1. Xcode 4.1 can be download with appstore, and now it is free.Read more >>

NOTE: newer version of cm4is01 is out. I will update this instruction.
updated: new guide on how to install cm4is01 on sharp IS01 is here!

Sharp IS01 or SH-10B is lightweight 5-inch Android phone with keyboard. But sadly it comes with Android 1.6 system. (To learn more about it, see my last post: IS01 (Lynx SH-10B) root, android 2.2 / 2.3 and other tips.

CyanogenMod offers great features not found in the official based firmwares. Now it is ported to Sharp IS01 / sh-10b by DevRenax. The port is based on Android 2.2 (froyo). So, you can replace the old 1.6 rom on IS01 with a new froyo now. I will tell what works and what not with current CyanogenMod Android 2.2 for Sharp IS01 first, then I will show you how to install it on your IS01. Here we go.Read more >>

Website monitors check your sites and alert you when your site is in trouble. I use five monitors. They check my websites at a regular intervals. If my site is down / or back again, they will send me email. I use my phone to receive those emails. So I will know how my sites' statuses, no matter where I go. Here are five of the monitors that offer free monitoring service I am using (some of the links are affiliate links, I hope you do not mind):

Site24x7

http://www.site24x7.com/ Website Monitoring from a global perspective
With a free account, Site24x7 can monitor 2 websites and check your websites in every 60 min.Read more >>