Archive for the ‘apple’ Category

Thunderbird Won’t Open…

I use the Mozilla Thunderbird client to check our departmental e-mail account. This morning, it hung on me and I had to Force-Quit the application. Every time I tried to re-open the application after that, I kept getting the following message:
Close Thunderbird. A copy of Thunderbird is already open. Only one copy of [...]

Mount Time Capsule in Linux

I recently decided to swap my home file-server from OpenSuse to FreeNAS. I needed to temporarily copy all the data somewhere, and my Time Capsule seemed to make sense. Only problem was, I’d never mounted it on my Linux box before. It turns out to be really simple though, here’s how:

Create a [...]

VMware Fusion can’t mount Boot Camp partition

If you get an error in VMware Fusion saying “The Boot Camp partition is not prepared to run as a virtual machine…” it may be because you formatted the partition to NTFS after Apple’s Boot Camp Utility initially formatted it FAT32.  The Problem with this is that the partition table still reflects a FAT32 filesystem [...]

iPhone 2.0 Firmware – My First 24 Hours

About this time yesterday, I decided to install the 2.0 firmware after seeing stories on Engadget and MacRumors about the availability via direct download.  In an attempt to avoid any number of complications that always seem to find me (like the first time I tried to JailBreak my iPhone), I performed one last sync and [...]

Remove Duplicate Events from iCal Calendars

For a couple weeks now, I’ve been fighting some duplicate appointments in my iCal calendar on both my MacBook and my iPhone.  While I was still able to function, it was extremely annoying.  My problem seemed to be with some recurring events that were somehow duplicated and corrupted so that I could only remove them [...]

Microsoft Office 2008 SP1 – Setup Assistant Loop

Some users who have installed Office 2008 for Mac Service Pack 1 are reporting an issue that occurs after installation. The issue causes the Office Setup Assistant to open when they try to open an Office application. This situation occurs when the Office Setup Assistant detects that an invalid Product Key was used to install [...]

Boot Camp “Disk Error” problem when installing XP

Since Apple released Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), many people have reported having trouble installing Windows XP via Boot Camp. This article from Apple outlines the issue: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306504
The problem is, Apple’s recommended solution doesn’t work…at least it hasn’t for me on multiple occasions. Following their solution, I constantly get a hal.dll error [...]

iPhone-ready Site

Thanks to iWPhone and WPhone Admin, this site now fully supports iPhone visitors. All that is necessary to take advantage of this new feature is to visit claydawg [dot] com from an iPhone or iPod Touch with Safari mobile. Enjoy!

+1 for Apple

It’s pretty common knowledge that Apple, Inc. doesn’t just replace devices when there’s something wrong. They fix it and that’s that. But I think times of change are on the horizon…
Last June I purchased my first Apple. It was a MacBook with a 2.0GHz Intel CoreDuo, 2GB of RAM, and an 80GB [...]