Turn your iPhone into a wireless keyboard & mouse [Update]

By madgunde, on Thursday, March 5, 2009 at 3:27 pm

[Update 1] Like a lot of tech-savvy people out there, I’m using a Mac mini as the heart of my home theatre to play music, view photos, watch downloaded TV shows and movies as well as DVDs. I also do the occasional web surfing with it. For most of those uses, the tiny white Apple [...]


5 comments

Time Machine & AirPort Update breaks 10.5.2 Combo Update [Update 2]

By madgunde, on Tuesday, March 25, 2008 at 12:28 pm

About This Mac 9C7010[Update 2] So I recently attempted to re-apply the Mac OS X 10.5.2 Combo update to my MacBook Pro in the hopes that it would fix an annoying little bug that is preventing the contents of my Desktop folder to get dynamically updated. To my surprise, when I went to select my boot volume to install on, the Installer wouldn’t let me continue stating:

“You cannot install Mac OS X Update Combined on this volume. This volume does not meet the requirements for this update.”

At first I thought my OS installation was corrupted, but before I reached for my Leopard install DVD to do a clean install I decided to investigate whether one of the recent Apple software updates may have caused the problem. Read on to see the results of my [...]


14 comments

iNdependence v1.2.3 enables latest firmware on some unlocked iPhones [Update 2]

By madgunde, on Wednesday, October 17, 2007 at 11:30 am

Firmware 1.1.1 Compatible Unlock[Update 2] A lot has happened in the iPhone hacking world in the past week. On October 10, the iPhone Dev Team published detailed instructions for jailbreaking and activating iPhone firmware 1.1.1. Within 24 hours, the folks at iPhoneSimFree, confirmed that their unlock solution in conjunction with the iPhone Dev Team’s hack would enable unlocked phones to be fully operational running the latest firmware. They also released an update to their SimFree application which repaired iPhones that had previously been bricked due to corruption of the baseband radio firmware caused by some of the free unlock solutions.

Yesterday, an update to iNdependence for Mac OS X was released that makes the process of updating, activating and jailbreaking iPhones a whole lot easier. I tried both the old manual instructions as well as using iNdependence 1.2.3 to update mine and my wife’s unlocked iPhones to the latest firmware with a high degree of success. Read all about my experiences in the full [...]


19 comments

Reason #1,687,592 why Apple ROCKS

By madgunde, on Wednesday, March 14, 2007 at 1:53 pm

I have been on a quest for the ‘perfect’ mobile phone for several years now, buying a new one every 6-9 months, but never being quite satisfied with any of them. I think the quest started back in 2003 when I bought a Sony Ericsson T68i, my first BlueTooth equipped phone, and was able [...]


1 comment

Safari 3.0: Leopard can’t come too soon!

By madgunde, on Thursday, October 5, 2006 at 10:44 am

If you’re like me, you spend a crazy amount of your waking hours in a web browser. For me, that browser is Apple’s Safari, and despite some enticing features of other browsers for Mac OS X (there are quite a few), I stick with Safari because I love it’s uncluttered interface, excellent support for [...]


Leave a comment

Apple enters phase 3 of it's Mac ad strategy

By madgunde, on Thursday, September 7, 2006 at 12:00 pm

Most Mac enthusiasts were relieved when Apple launched it’s Get a Mac TV campaign a few months back, but we weren’t holding our breath that it would last, given Apple’s past Mac advertising efforts. The ads have been received quite well among the Mac faithful, and have certainly ruffled some feathers in the Windows [...]


1 comment