Category Archives: mac

my findings about the mac

battery check for your ibook

By Kai Römer | Published: June 29, 2006

You feel your battery is getting old, but you dont know for sure? then check out this application: CoconutBattery It provides you with information about the remaining capacity of your battery.

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Deckenhalterung für den Laptop

By Kai Römer | Published: November 22, 2005

Wer sitzt nicht gerne im Bett und arbeitet mit seinem Laptop. Es gibt aber immer ein paar Probleme: Der Laptop wird zu warm und man fängt an darunter zu schwitzen. Man verrenkt sich den Rücken, um vernünftig sehen und schreiben zu können. Der Laptop verrutscht dauernd. … Ja! Davon war ich genervt. Deshalb habe ich [...]

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mac :: pivot/desktop rotation for my ibook G4 12″

By Kai Römer | Published: November 17, 2005

As i like to rotate my desktop on my ibook i was looking for a pivot software. I read something about a trick to get this feature in the system panel (option key+mouse click on display), but that doesn’t work for me. So i tried the new ATI Driver for my ATI 9200 Mobile card. [...]

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mac :: iPhoto ist grotten langsam

By Kai Römer | Published: October 25, 2005

Nachdem ich heute meine ca 2500 Photos â 2MB in iPhoto geladen habe, war iPhoto nicht mehr zu benutzen. Jeder Wechsel und jede Aktion dauern jetzt mindestens 1 Minute. Da wurde wohl bei Apple ein wenig unsauber programmiert. Anders als mit einer schlecht konstruierten Datenbank und verfehltem Precaching kann ich mir das nicht erklären.

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mac :: kismac support for airport extreme

By Kai Römer | Published: October 17, 2005

The latest cvs from kismac supports airport extreme in passive mode. as I don’t know whether this is a “circumvention device” no link! But I think google will help.

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mac :: usefull progs

By Kai Römer | Published: July 7, 2005

FinkCommander is a GUI for fink. very usefull. NeoOffice is a OpenOffice without X-Server requirement. NVU is a WebDevKit for Unix. provides quite a lot of support for creating your personal homepage.

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mac :: use an extended ibook desktop

By Kai Römer | Published: July 4, 2005

On a new ibook your output to either your tv and your vga output are syncronized to the ibook monitor. That can be improved! have a look at:Screen Spanning Doctor

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mac :: gpsdrive on mac osx tiger

By Kai Römer | Published: June 29, 2005

requirements: fink xcode from mac osx fink install the following packages with their -dev volumes: pkg gtk+-2.0 glib2-dev pcre atk1 gdk-pixbuf maybe there are some more. i installed gimp previous to gpsdrive. this might be a hint. please tell me if i lost one. gpsdrive because gpsdrive is looking for gcc3.x and tiger is providing [...]

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mac :: macscp

By Kai Römer | Published: February 19, 2005

scp GUI for maxosx : http://remotefinder.sourceforge.net/

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