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Apple / MacBook Pro / OS X / Technology
by Ken Ng · Published June 29, 2012 · Last modified January 30, 2018
If you find yourself wanting upgrade your Mac’s Bluetooth 2.1 support with a USB dongle that supports Bluetooth 4.0, here’s a tip for you to get it working with those cheap but unsupported Bluetooth 4.0 USB dongles you can find posted on eBay.
Safari 5.2 is already seeded to Safari developers. Question is can you get it as well, and if you could, is it stable enough to run it on your primary PC? Well, read on to see how I’ve found Safari 5.2 a much welcomed update on my OS X Lion system!
Microsoft / OS X / Technology
by Ken Ng · Published March 6, 2012 · Last modified September 14, 2012
Wondering what all the fuss on Windows 8 is all about, but only have a Mac in your hands? Don’t worry, just get the latest update of Parallels 7 and you can quickly run Windows 8 Consumer Preview in a few easy steps!
Apple / Microsoft / OS X / Technology
by Ken Ng · Published February 24, 2012 · Last modified December 12, 2020
SSD is very expensive in terms of it’s real estate and you simply do not want to put just about any junk you have that’s not worth it’s space there. Therefore, you would want to make sure if it’s really worth plunking the tens of GBs worth of VM image onto your precious SSD storage. So, should you or should you not? Is there significant performance improvements that warrant the large chunk of the SSD dedicated to the VM image? Read on to find out!
Apple / MacBook Pro / Technology
by Ken Ng · Published February 21, 2012 · Last modified January 23, 2021
In the recent Mountain Lion preview announcement, we are starting to see quite a bit of convergence of iOS apps being introduced into Mac OS X. There’s a whole lot of iCloud enhanced apps like Calendar, Reminder, Notes, etc. If you are familiar with the iPad, there’s nothing really new here, except that it’s going to be available soon! But there’s also a gem that was released on the same announcement, and that’s the Messages app which is available now as a beta app.
Beware of a scam that’s targeting Wordpress blogs. Banner ad placement for Lacoste on your site? That should ring all the alarms!!! And see what else I’ve discovered!
Trying to install Oracle Server 10g release 2 (10.1.2.0.2) on Solaris x86 64-bit and getting the “Error in invoking target ‘agent nmo nmb’ of makefile ‘home/oracle/OraHome_1/sysman/lib/ins_sysman.mk’. See ‘/home/oracle/oraInventory/logs/installAction2011-11-17_07-04-25AM.log’ for details.” error? Fret not. Here’s the fix for it.
Ever felt that even having a tablet, you still could never leave your notebook behind because you always have ‘that’ file that you might need. Well, here’s how SugarSync, a cloud storage solution, can help you leave that notebook behind for good.
If you are uncertain whether to go for Parallels Desktop 7 or VMWare Fusion 4, perhaps this article could help you. Here’s my A usability-based comparison of VMWare Fusion 4 vs Parallels Desktop 7. No useless benchmarks, no pointless feature-by-feature comparisons. Just purely based on my use of the two.
Just got that nice MacBook Air with the roaring Lion, then figured out that you need to run some Windows apps still? Fret not, here’s how you can do just that and between the usual choice of Parallels vs VMWare, why I’d recommend you to put your money on Parallels instead.
Having trouble getting your Bluetooth devices to pair in Lion after it wakes from sleep? Try this fix that I’ve found to see if it works for your too.
If you faced the “iTunes was unable to load dataclass information from Sync Services” error, here’s how you can safely fix the problem.
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