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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

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 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 >>

Should you upgrade your Apple iPad 1? Does iPad 2 really worth the money for the up-gradation? I hope I can help you answer the questions by list the differences between the first generation iPad and the second generation iPad (iPad 2).

Design Differences: iPad 2 is lighter and thinner than iPad 1

iPad wifi model weights 680 g (1.5 pounds), 3G model weights 730 g (1.6 pounds)
iPad 2 wifi model weights 601 g (1.33 pounds), 3G model weights 613 g (1.35 pounds), Verizon 3G model weights 607 g (1.34 pounds)
iPad 2 is about 100 g lighter than original iPad 1, and iPad 2 is much thinner than iPad 1. (iPad 1: 13.4 mm, iPad 2 : 8.8 mm)Read more >>

Apple has a official incompatible software list for snow leopard, But it is kinda of incomplete. Here is an extra Mac os x 10.6 incompatibility list. Leave a comment if you find software that is incompatible with snow leopard and it is not on the list.Read more >>

List of Snow Leopard Incompatible Software

I met the problem on Leopard again. Today when I tried to ejected my SD card reader, I saw the error message

The disk SDStorage is in use and could not be ejected. 
Try quitting applications and try again.

( SDstorage is my SD card label. )

I had no idea which application was using the card reader. After quitting most of my applications, the error popped whenever I tried to eject the disk. Then I found how to eject it by force, here is how:Read more >>

One day, I found my mac running on Leopard no sound while playing flash. No matter flash on the web, or flash file that I downloaded to the disk, no matter using Safari, Firefox or adobe flash player ( adobe media player), there was no sound for flash. It was strange, because I had sound while playing movies and mp3 files. Then I googled the problem, and managed to fix the problem. here is how:Read more >>