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Keep your MacBook alive with an SSD upgrade
0December 13, 2011
by Ken Ng
So you have a MacBook (or any PC or notebook really) that’s a year or two old and things seems to be slowing down a little. You basically have two choice. Suck it up and just live with it. Or buy a new notebook. And burn some cash in the process of course. Sure, you’d get new spanking CPU and perhaps even a faster GPU to boot. But hey, unless you are dying to run the latest games in all 2000 FPS glory, 90% of the time, you don’t r More >
Fixing Lion’s iCal’s CalDAV password problem
4September 8, 2011
by Ken Ng
So you’ve upgraded your Mac from Snow Leopard to the new roaring Lion. Once done, you browse around your Mac and is generally happy that everything remained working and all the data is still available as if nothing’s change except for the new features and functionality of Lion.
Then, you opened up iCal and noticed that your CalDAV-configured calendar isn’t working and is asking for you to reenter the password. You was sure nothing’s changed, More >
3+1 Reasons why Parallels 7 wins VS VMWare Fusion!
6September 7, 2011
by Ken Ng
Caveat: This is an updated article which I originally wrote using Parallels Desktop 5 and quickly after that, upgraded to Parallels Desktop 6, comparing it with VMWare Fusion 3.0. That’s almost exactly one year ago from today.
Now, if you are not already aware, Parallels Desktop 7 is to be released on September 6. With this latest version, here’s a revised and updated viewpoint on my comparison between the two.
Why virtualize and not just More >
Fixing the OS X Lion bluetooth pairing after sleep issue
1August 17, 2011
by Ken Ng
Upgrading to Lion on my MacBook Pro was great. It was perhaps the easiest OS upgrade I’ve ever done thus far. While I generally like how it is, there are a few nagging issues with Lion that just irritated the heck out of me.
One of it is that when my MacBook wakes up from sleep mode, my bluetooth mouse would never get paired again without the need to turn the MacBook’s bluetooth module off and on. This was never the case with Snow Leopard! All More >
Fixing the Mac App Store Error 100 issue
0January 7, 2011
by Ken Ng
If you’ve just updated your Mac today, you’ll notice the new Mac App Store sitting on your dock.
All is great when you immediately fire it up and try to download an application. But after doing so, you might get a nasty ‘unknown error (100)’ problem.
So how do you fix this problem if it’s unknown? Well, the solution to this problem is actually rather simple.
The main issue with this problem, so it seems, is that the Mac App Store (obviously More >
To Mac, or to Windows? That’s your question, here’s my answer
0January 5, 2011
by Ken Ng
If you’re looking to get a new PC or notebook, chances are, you’ll be asking the question above. So, should you be getting a Mac or Windows machine? Well, in my humble opinion, the answer is pretty simple. If you are willing to fork out a little more (to get more too of course), then go for the Mac option as I had.
Sure, like I mentioned, the Mac option will be a little bit more expensive when compared with the ‘equivalent’ Windows option from More >
Fixing the iPhone Bluetooth Internet Tethering with OS X
24November 10, 2010
by Ken Ng
Recently, my iPhone’s ability to wirelessly tether the Internet connection from my mobile data plan through bluetooth was broken. I wasn’t sure what went wrong or what broke it. All I did right before it happened was to upgrade my RAM from 4GB to 8GB and also the hard disk to a nice 7200RPM 500GB Western Digital Scropio. And the guy that helped me upgrade it did a PRAM reset as well.
But anyways, it just go screwed up. It would still pair with More >
3 Reasons Why I Chose Parallels over VMWare Fusion
10September 18, 2010
by Ken Ng
UPDATE: This article is refreshed in this latest published version here: 3+1 Reasons why Parallels 7 wins VS VMWare Fusion!
If you’re like me, especially if you are working in an organizations where a most of the internal ERP systems are built only for Windows platform, and is also a Mac user, chances are you would want to be able to run both Mac and Windows applications at the same time. And if you’ve done your homework online, you would More >
