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Size of iOS

Yesterday I have updated my iOS to version 12.0. My iPhone has only 16 GB of storage and that sometimes causes troubles. Occasionaly I look at the iPhone Storage in Settings and I do some cleaning. I was surprised and wondering why does the "Other", which is basically the iOS, take so much space. Apple should know that there are still people in this world that use iPhones with 16 GB storage every day. I followed several recipes how to increase the free space in iPhone, but still: why does the iOS take so much space? This week I have found an article on OSXDaily ,  describing a very unusual way (for me) how to reduce the "Other" storage space. Before I tried this method, my "Other" took around 8 GB of storage. Then I connected my iPhone to iTunes, actually I did a back up, one restart and in total waited approximately 30 minutes (the iPhone was still connected to iTunes via cable). No idea what happened but the system really reduced its size, to 6.7 GB...

Jailbreaking and unlocking iPhone 3GS

On Monday I have bought the iPhone 3GS. According to the offer it should be unlocked. According to the pretty girl, that was selling me the phone, too. Well accoding to the iPhone itself - not that quite. I tried two SIM cards before buying it but the activation failed and even not-inserted SIM card was not recognized. Because I had no experience I thought it needs to be connected to the iTunes and some updates or restore should be performed prior to activation. So I have bought it and took home. I did the update in the evening and still the same. My SIM card was not active. I got No service all the time. The girls had perhaps jailbreak on her phone even without knowing it. She just didn't know anything. And that was the problem. So next whole day - literally whole day - I was trying to jailbreak and unlock the iPhone 3GS. In order to see if other iOS can be installed and find out what actually the problem is. The motivation was to activate the iPhone without the SIM card. ...

Minimum fan speed at MacBook Pro

If you have any experience with loudness of fans or high minimal fan speed with your MacBook Pro, this could be solution for your problems: 1) Uninstall Fan Control app (maybe you or some previous user has installed it on your system): Uninstall Instructions Please follow these instructions to uninstall FanControl permanently: Remove the following files and folders (both on your start disk):      /Library/StartupItems/FanControlDaemon     /Library/PreferencePanes/Fan Control.prefPane  (You will be prompted for the Administrator's password when deleting these items.) Reboot Reset the System Management Controller (SMC). Please follow these links for instructions:  Portables ,  Mac Mini ,  Mac Pro 2) To repeat the last step of the first step - reset SMC. Before starting your MacBook Pro, hold left shift, control, option and power key at the same time for a few seconds and release them at the same time. Then turn your MacBook Pr...

Diablo 3 on MacBook Pro 2007

Wondering if Diablo 3 will run on your older (and still very good) MacBook Pro 2007? I have created a video for you:   Later I have lowered the resolution to 1024x640 (16:10 aspect ratio). Still very good resolution. Similar to Diablo 2! But in 3D environment :-)

MacBook Pro (late 2007) - benchmarks

More about this MacBook Pro here . Version of Mac OS X: 10.6.4 Cinebench 11.5 OpenGL: 7,55 fps CPU: 1,22 points Geekbench 2.1 Score: 3113 Doom 3 1.3.1.1304 (1440x900, High Quality, All effects on, No AA) timedemo demo1: 49,4 fps Peacekeeper Safari 5.0.2: 4461 Chrome 6.0.472.62: 5926 Xbench 1.3 Score: 112

MacBook Pro (late 2007)

After one year, when I have bought old iMac G3, my thinking about computers has changed. I knew that my next computer will be an Apple one. After finalization of my diploma thesis, my HP laptop has broken down. Since then I was using desktop. Thinking about buying a new laptop came when I decided to go study in Vienna. I needed some portable and not expensive computer. So I started looking for some Apple Macbook. Actually MacBook Pro. Mainly because of the graphics and body. After few days of exploration I realized that I can afford MacBook Pro 3,1 late 2007. 3 years old machine but still very nice and solid computer. First times I was unsuccessful. But once I was lucky. I was sitting in the train to Vienna and I browsed web on my mobile phone. I opened Google and typed "macbook pro 2007 wien". And a fresh advertisement appeared! I wrote down the telephone number and called immediately after I came to Südbahnhof. We arranged meeting in Hütteldorf and the next day the Ma...

iMac G3: 1 GB RAM

I use my iMac during weekend because I leave my laptop (for work and school) in Bratislava. I noticed that sometimes it needs more RAM - especially during browsing and listening to music, reading e-mails, etc. So I have bought another 512 MB SDRAM module for my iMac G3. Now I have 2 x 512 MB SDRAM Kingston modules inside. After few hourse of using full capacity of RAM I can say it is a bit helpful. Geekbench score is higher about 6 points - 266 . Dashboard is still off because it needs a big amount of RAM and I don't need it, but with 1 GB RAM it can be turned on without a significant lack of RAM. iMac is now almost in its full potential (no Wi-Fi card). It makes a good service for me. For easy browsing, listening, reading, watching - it is a truly good machine.

iMac G3: Replacing logic board

Since I have bought my iMac I knew that it is not a very fast version. But because of availability of 350 MHz G3 CPU's I decided to buy this one and see how does it work. After a while there was one thing I didn't like. No FireWire means no Mac OS X Tiger. I used XPostFacto, but still it was not something I like. I looked for many sites how to upgrade your old iMac. CPU upgrade is not reasonable these days - it is very expensive, you can buy a better machine for that price. So only option for me was to find a cheap logic board and replace the old one. I knew about the issues with incompatibility but I risked it. I found one logicboard in NYC. But after a few days, it was only 400 MHz instead of 600 Mhz and I didn't want so little increase of power. Then I found 500 Mhz G3 on eBay in Canada only for 35$. My friend in the USA bought it for me and I waited until Christmas for this delivery. I was not sure if it will work but I wanted to risk it. The most import...

iMac G3: Mac OS X 10.4.11

So my goal to install Mac OS X Tiger has come true. Firstly I needed Tiger on CD's and that was a big problem because you can buy Tiger mostly on DVD although there are also some CD versions but very expensive. But I was lucky because friend of my friend, Neuromanc, lent me this very rare 4-CD version. So thanks again :-). My iMac is not officially supported because it has no FireWire. But you can override this with software XPostFacto . I downloaded and installed the latest version so I could use it with Mac OS X 10.3 (the previous versions worked only with OS 9). I erased HDD entirely before the installation just to be sure. After first restart the installation continued from other CD's. The installation process took approximately one hour and ran without problem. After registration the update process started-up and took another hour or more. It was repeated several times ma inly due to Java updates. Then finally I could download software and this time the latest versions. I ...

iMac G3: Mac OS X 10.3.9 - Internet browsing & other applications

Software for Mac OS X 10.3.9 is usually old and not supported. That was the first thing I noticed. Another reason to go for Tiger. I had to search old releases and sometimes I found only Windows versions. And sometimes I had to experiment - will it work or not? Internet Of course I tried Safari in latest version for Mac OS X 10.3.9. The speed was accepatble but untill I visited pages with Flash (ver 9 for Panther) or JavaScript. I can say that the Safari was unusable. I had to wait too long. My next steps were of course for Firefox. Unfortunately I couldn't download latest version for Panther, only version 2. This version was slower than current version that I have on Windows, so I didn't dowload this old release. To the contrary, I could download the latest Opera browser. It worked well but still slow with Flash and JavaScript. I searched again and I found Camino . It is something like Firefox but only for Macs. I could download the latest version again, what was great. I vi...

iMac G3: Mac OS X 10.3.9

Today is one week since I have bought my iMac G3. I tried to work with Mac OS 9 a little bit and I thought this system fits on old iMacs perfectly and also that it is the fastest option. After one day of using Mac OS X I can say that I was completely wrong. I didn't like Mac OS 9. The main reason was that it was not an UNIX-like system. I didn't know that before and I looked for terminal and there was nothing. Although OS 9 was fast, web browsing was awful. Only one good web browser I had was Internet Explorer and the formatting was ... Well, current web or web 2.0 is something else than 10 years ago. Before buying iMac I was decided that I want Mac OS X. I didn't know which version but I was aware that my iMac is really old machine and I didn't expect smoothness and speed. According to Apple, only 10.3 Panther is officially supported on my iMac. Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger runs also on G3 but it needs FireWire and usually it is on DVD. So I looked for some Mac OS X versions on...

Additional RAM to iMac and installation of some software and games

RAM upgrade After Mac OS 9 updates I started to use this system. But after a short while I realized that I really need more RAM. It was almost impossible to work with more than one application. Therefore I was decided to buy 512 MB RAM. I knew about one small shop with old computers on Favoritenstrasse (U6: between Taubstummengasse and Südtiroler Platz). I went there and asked about SDRAM PC100. Old but nice guy showed me some 512 MB modules for about 30 €. I didn't have so much money with me at that moment and I also wanted to visit that Mac shop once more. So I left the shop and forgot my umbrella there. That Mac shop offered me the same kind of RAM for about 45-50 €. Hmm, .... No thanks. I went to my room and picked some money from bankomat. I returned to the computer shop and the seller offered me (except my umbrella - for free of course) one module for 24 €. It has not been tested yet. I have bought it and put in my iMac - and nothing happened. Bad, but I had to go to the scho...

My first Apple computer - iMac 350 G3

Why have I for God's sake bought an old slow iMac G3? 10 years old machine, small amount of RAM, CPU with insufficient speed, .... Well, because it's Mac. I made some hackintosh experiments with Mac OS X on my laptop, it worked but it was not Mac. At that time I started to like Apple. I have found this iMac on Austrian eBay . But before that I had found a Mac shop with all kind of Macs and spare parts. The prices there were astronomical. My iMac costed 50 € and a week ago iMac 600 was sold for 74 €. The prices in that shop were approximately 200 € and more. I had to wait more than one week but I have read some articles about iMac G3 during that time. Great website for every owner of old and/or low end Mac: http://lowendmac.com/ So, what's the configuration of my iMac? CPU - Power G3 350 Mhz, 64 MB RAM, 7 GB HDD, Slot loading CD ROM D1-5.5.1 - more info on this Apple's page . And it's blue. Body, keyboard and mouse look very nice, without scratches or visible damag...

Font rendering

Asi mesiac dozadu som si na notebook (HP Compaq nx6110) nainštaloval hackintosh Mac OS X 10.4.8 [JaS]. Táto verzia je veľmi stabilná a existuje k nej veľa návodov pre rôzny hardvér. Mac OS X sa mi veľmi páči, preto som sa ani po dvoch týždňoch nevzdal a výsledom je skutočne dobre bežiaca verzia na mojom PC notebooku. Veľa vecí sa dá dodatočne upraviť, možno aj tieto moje problémy, ale vyžaduje to veľa času a ten momentálne nemám. Tak som sa rozhodol, že ho začnem používať. Okrem zvukovky (nefunguje jack sense) beží všetko ako po masle - WiFi, hardvérová akcelerácia, USB, ethernet, atď. So zvukovkou som sa celkom zmieril, ide len o to, že po pripojení slúchadiel hrajú aj reproduktory. Nezmieril som sa však s veľmi divnou akceleráciou myšky, ktorú som ani po nainštalovaní jednej fajn aplikácie nedokázal dať do mojich želaných hodnôt. Touch pad funguje lepšie a prirodzenejšie ako myš. Potom mi však udrelo do očí zobrazovanie textu. Upravil som nejaké systémové nastavenia no písma sa rend...

iPhone humor

Dnes som si prečítal rozhovor so Stevom Wozniakom v SME . Veľmi som sa nasmial na priloženom vtipe, tak som začal hľadať iPhone humor na nete. Z tých lepších som vybral tieto: A jedno video na záver :-)