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Upgrading Memory on a Macbook Pro 15-inch 2.66 GHz Intel Core i7
This happens to be pretty straight-forward even though Apple recommends you let an Apple Certified Technician (ACT) perform the upgrade. If you happen to do it yourself, you’ll need the following:
- an 8GB memory upgrade kit
- Official D-I-Y Instructions
- Open work area
- Screwdriver (the Husky HD-74501 works perfectly)
With all theREAD MORE
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GitX: A git GUI for OSX
GitX is a git GUI made for OSX. It was created by Pieter de Bie and is a really solid tool for working with git on OSX. I’ve been using it for about 9 months now. I liked it so much when I first began using itREAD MORE
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Overlaying the Flex SDK with the AIR 2.0 SDK on OSX
Since I develop with multiple IDEs, I maintain the latest releases of the Flex and AIR SDKs in a centralized location outside of their default install locations. This made enabling the AIR 2.0 SDK simple for me as all I had to do was theREAD MORE
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Working with MySQL Doesn’t Have to Suck
That’s the tag line for Querious, an awesome MySQL database management tool from Araelium Group. It’s like MySQL Administrator combined with Sequel Pro.
Prior to Querious, I would have to use both of those other apps plus some CLI to manage all the data systemsREAD MORE
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Installing New Snow Leopard Server
During a super busy week this week the main server on the internal network died. This was bad, really bad. As the Open Directory Master, this machine was responsible for everyone being able to enjoy a smooth workflow. Promoting another server to OD Master justREAD MORE
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The application Finder cannot be opened -10810
If you have experienced this issue since upgrading your Mac to OSX 10.6, here’s the skinny on what’s going on and what you can do about it. Basically, this occurs when attempting to access external drives (ie, USB, Firewire, iDisk, etc). Symptoms of this errorREAD MORE
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Transmit and Amazon S3
Just discovered that Transmit 3.7 has S3 support. You can manage it using the Advanced Preferences tab which you access by holding down the Option key while clicking on the Transmit application menu. From there you will see an extra preference tab where you canREAD MORE
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TextMate + Flex SDK + Ant
This is a pretty sweet combination. TextMate has been my favorite text editor on the Mac for a while although I must confess that I hadn’t been taking advantage of all it’s features. Through “bundles”, you can transform TextMate from an ordinary editor into a completeREAD MORE
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Leopard 1st Thoughts
I installed 10.5 last night when I got in and so far so good. The upgrade process took, maybe, an hour and after that I started thinking of what new feature I wanted to use 1st. The winner was Spaces. This feature lets you split upREAD MORE
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The Way It Should Be
This morning, before work, I remembered that I needed desparately to upgrade the RAM on my MacBook. 1GB just wasn’t going to cut it anymore. Only problem was I didn’t have any spare cash to pick up a couple of memory sticks right now.
No problema.READ MORE
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