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Keep your MacBook alive with an SSD upgrade

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December 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 >

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3+1 Reasons why Parallels 7 wins VS VMWare Fusion!

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September 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 >

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Fixing the OS X Lion bluetooth pairing after sleep issue

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August 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 >

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How to get your own email domain name with Gmail

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December 14, 2010
by Ken Ng

Some of you may have wondered how I got my own domain name for my email address. I thought it was kinda cool to have an email address with a domain names based on my condominium where I live. In fact, there’s been a couple of times where I mistakenly thought to be working for my condominium as I wrote down my email address, which is happens to have my condominium’s name.

And if you follow what The Oatmeal says about email addresses, you would More >

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Tip: Best network setup to co-exist 802.11G and 802.11N

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September 13, 2010
by Ken Ng

If you just gotten a 802.11n wireless router to upgrade your existing 802.11g router, I bet that you would be wondering how you should set it up to ensure co-existance with older devices and still get the benefits of the much faster 802.11n speeds. Let’s face it, you (and I too) would like to go exclusively 802.11n with it’s 5GHz channels that is much less saturated compared to the over congested 2.4GHz channels that 802.11g uses. However, it’s More >

Fix: Parallels iPhone Service won’t start

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August 4, 2010
by Ken Ng

Here’s a quick tip to fix for those of you Mac users who are using Parallels 5 as the virtualization solution.

Support came back to me with the following steps to fix the problem. First, quit Parallels if it’s already running. Then go through the steps noted below.

  1. Go to /Library/Parallels/
  2. Right-click on “Parallels Service.app” -> Show Package Contents
  3. Go to /Contents/PlugIns/
  4. Right-click on “Parallels Network Start.app” -> Show Package More >
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Tip: Calibrating the MacBook and iPhone battery to maximize it’s life

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July 1, 2010
by Ken Ng

Everyone knows that the battery on the new MacBooks and iPhone are built-in and non-replaceable. Therefore, it’s extra important to try and maintain the battery to maximize its lifetime.

And since both the MacBooks and iPhones uses a lithium-based battery, there are a few golden rules on how we can keep the batteries in tip-top conditions.

Firstly, lithium-based batteries likes their electrons to keep moving. That way, the battery stays ‘fresh’ More >

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Tip: Enabling ‘native’ NTFS read and write support on Snow Leopard, at your own risk

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June 21, 2010
by Ken Ng

If you’re use both Mac and Windows workstations, then you’d probably also have a bunch of removable hard disks that’s formatted as NTFS laying around. And you’d also obviously know that OS X does read from an NTFS partition. The trouble is, you don’t get NTFS write by default.

In Snow Leopard, both read and write capability is apparently available natively. The reason why it’s not officially available, it seems, is due to licensing issues More >

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