Category Archives: Apple

A day back in iOS jail

Posted on December 31, 2010 by Josh Anderson

It’s only been 1 day since I received my replacement iPhone 4, this one, dutifully, has a working lock button, but it also has the latest firmware (4.2.1 at the time of writing) and the only jailbreak currently is a ‘tethered’ … Continue reading →

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Using Steam on a Mac with a case-sensitive drive

Posted on May 13, 2010 by Josh Anderson

It can be done, but there’s a little hassle involved: If you just try running it from your Applications folder, you’ll most likely see this, which fortunately isn’t as big a problem as it is with Photoshop Ok, so, since … Continue reading →

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Adobe CS5 on a Mac with case-sensitive drive?

Posted on May 2, 2010 by Josh Anderson

Nope. All you’ll see is the message below; which should be worded entirely differently since you can’t choose a “different drive location”. Basically, it’s saying if you want to use it, reformat your Mac. Also, as far as I can … Continue reading →

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AppleCare – Is it worth it? I think so.

Posted on November 27, 2009 by Josh Anderson

Have you ever found yourself wondering whether that AppleCare you purchased was worth the money — I know I would have if I’d had to pay the full price (fortunately as a student it was only around £40). Or perhaps you’re … Continue reading →

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“Select CD-ROM Boot Type :” prompt during Vista, Server 2008 (& R2) & Windows 7 x64 Boot on Macbook

Posted on November 8, 2009 by Josh Anderson

These instructions initially appeared at this url: http://blog.aproductofsociety.org/?p=13 but have since disappeared. As is mentioned on my primary blog with instructions for Windows 7 and Windows Vista, unfortunately, in order to complete this process you need an existing Windows installation. … Continue reading →

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iTunes 8.1 – ‘iTunes DJ’ iPod touch and iPhone integration

Posted on March 12, 2009 by Josh Anderson

I just upgraded to the latest version of iTunes (version 8.1) and I can’t really comment on whether it’s any faster as it wasn’t that slow for me in the first place. Supposedly it improves the speed for people with … Continue reading →

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Windows 7 x64 on a MacBook Pro – Guide

Posted on January 11, 2009 by Josh Anderson

As I expected, installing the 64 bit version Windows 7 on my MacBook Pro wasn’t as easy as perhaps it should have been. You can’t just burn the x64 image to a disk and expect it to work. My MBP … Continue reading →

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iPhone 3G unlock – yellowsn0w – My experience

Posted on January 5, 2009 by Josh Anderson

Since the 3G iPhone came out in July (’08), people have been waiting for an unlock. On new years day, the iPhone-dev-team released one… Many reports I’ve seen suggest that people aren’t having any luck with the unlock. This was … Continue reading →

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Stop your MacBook / MacBook Pro from waking when you plug in the power adapter under Windows

Posted on September 15, 2008 by Josh Anderson

OK, so…. When you’re in Windows on your MacBook / MacBook Pro and your computer is asleep, if you plug in the power adapter, it wakes up; in lots of cases, this is annoying and it certainly doesn’t do that … Continue reading →

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Is the iPod Classic dead?

Posted on September 10, 2008 by Josh Anderson

Yes, I know it’s just been ‘updated’ along with the iPod nano & touch. But you can’t surely say that that was an upgrade? It’s exactly the same! WITH LESS SPACE. Prior to today you could buy an 80GB or … Continue reading →

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