glen e
May 4, 01:44 PM
Been working with it for a few days and and I'm 50 % impressed - l lost the WiFi signal once in a presentation and had to move to the MBA to continue. Also it takes a swipe of your finger across the face of the phone which is not comfortable to do with one hand, although I got pretty good using my thumb. As opposed tot the 2 screens remote app that will advance slide with a shake, KR is pretty basic in its approach. Looking forward to a new revision that would give me a button and iPad interface.
Philberttheduck
Jan 9, 08:41 PM
Can we request anyone to encode the keynote, not just a full stream (connecting to internet)? This is, it is legal to get that (and free please).
balamw
Apr 24, 02:04 PM
Should i start reading up on it now, or wait till thursday when i actually get the mac before i delve into it?
You can definitely get something out of it just by reading it without Xcode available and running.
NOTE: Some folks find Kochan boring or at least slow going in the beginning. Give it a chance and if the first few chapters don't grab you skip ahead a bit.
The second book you mention (Hillegass & Conway) is a great second book since it delves more into the iOS specific/GUI stuff that is barely touched at the end of Kochan.
EDIT: If you are really anxious to get started you could always rent time at http://www.macincloud.com/. For as low as $20 for a month's access.
B
You can definitely get something out of it just by reading it without Xcode available and running.
NOTE: Some folks find Kochan boring or at least slow going in the beginning. Give it a chance and if the first few chapters don't grab you skip ahead a bit.
The second book you mention (Hillegass & Conway) is a great second book since it delves more into the iOS specific/GUI stuff that is barely touched at the end of Kochan.
EDIT: If you are really anxious to get started you could always rent time at http://www.macincloud.com/. For as low as $20 for a month's access.
B
arn
May 25, 08:48 AM
odd. I think I fixed both problems.
let me know
arn
let me know
arn
CarlsonCustoms
Mar 4, 07:17 PM
I was on the totally rad show folding team but now on my PS3 i switched over to my mac brethren.
Let's find a cure,
GO TEAM
Zack
Let's find a cure,
GO TEAM
Zack
vniow
Oct 19, 08:10 PM
Originally posted by King Cobra
SPAM!
Professor Drap Drawers is going to have to retire soon!
Poor guy.http://img.ranchoweb.com/images/veronica/damn.gif
I think he's had to drop his drawers one too many times.http://img.ranchoweb.com/images/veronica/ppphhht.gif
SPAM!
Professor Drap Drawers is going to have to retire soon!
Poor guy.http://img.ranchoweb.com/images/veronica/damn.gif
I think he's had to drop his drawers one too many times.http://img.ranchoweb.com/images/veronica/ppphhht.gif
ECUpirate44
Mar 23, 08:10 AM
If you didn't save your blobs, you cant downgrade.
iMacC2D
Dec 5, 11:58 AM
Greetings MacRumors. Posting here as a long time reader, but i've only been a member of the forums for a very short time. I've been reading some of the forums, getting an idea just what goes on around here and thought perhaps the regulars to the Apple Collectors section would be interested in this. :)
I started working on this project in August so a while ago now. I'm a regular over on MacTalk Australia, and at the time I arranged with one of the forum members to buy up 2 old Compact Macs from a batch of 20 to 30 machines he was clearing out, one of which worked and one of which didn't, a Macintosh 512Ke. For the most part it was completely dead, it didn't even make it to a successful boot chime. Being an otherwise huge fan of the Macintosh (original) body shape and design, I bought it with the intention of doing some work on it. I had no idea what to expect and admittedly assumed something fairly minor.
When it arrived, it was in pretty good shape externally. Internally it was the opposite. Age had taken its toll on the old Macintosh and left the internal frame looking a little rusty, the lower logic board cover stained with calcium, the floppy disk drive gummed up and the rest of it covered in dust. It quickly became apparent that this would be more of a challenge than i first thought.
Being a bit of a Mac nut that has a background of repairing cars, I chose to begin restoring the old machine.
http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/1624/photowvp.jpg
So obviously the first challenge was to make this thing actually power on and boot up. When connected to mains and switched on, it would initialize the floppy disk drive over and over again while whistling... so it wasn't supplying the necessary current to start the machine up, or too much, but all I knew was that the power supply was in a self-protection mode due to some form of fault.
So, I bought a new set of capacitors. Unfortunately the total of the capacitors was around $60 AUD... $47 of which was in 4 mains filter capacitors. So I just skipped them and bought the rest. In the end I needed to bite the bullet for the remaining 4 filter caps, so it has all new capacitors all around, but that was still not enough to kick it over. Admittedly this left me somewhat puzzled. I was pretty sure that would have done the trick.
What was still holding it back was the Flyback transformer. Although otherwise healthy and working, the solder joints securing it to the Analog Board were cracked. After desoldering and resoldering it with fresh solder, fixing the electrical connections in the process, the Mac was able to finally power on.
http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/6301/dcp2423.jpg
http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/9049/20090826qxq1119wmnu1atj.jpg
http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/4949/dcp2364.jpg
I considered that a temporary success, being surprised to get even this far, and reapplied the glue to the new capacitors to prevent them from moving, as they do in the factory.
Even so, I still had a Sad Mac to deal with. There was no error code, just garbage, which didn't make the fault isolation process any simpler. I didn't know what was wrong, only that the logic board was at fault. Many of the usual basic components tested fine, so the culprit had to be a bad IC, which are not only near impossible to diagnose with home tools, but also difficult to find replacements for.
I had no idea where to go from here, so I turned to another member on the MacTalk Australia forums who happened to find another compact Mac, a Macintosh Plus, with analog board issues (cracked joints) and some case yellowing. I at least wanted one working Compact Mac. When it arrived, I noticed the case was indeed a nice shade of yellow on the front bezel and the analog board had a nasty habit of tripping the safety switches in my house.
However the logic board from the Plus did work in the 512Ke and did in fact tell me that the analog board restoration had gone well, so I pressed on with some of the basics. This involved cleaning out the 512's floppy disk drive and relubricating the moving parts, removing any rust and corrosion from the internal frame by means of sanding and cleaning away the remaining dirt and debris from the rear "bucket" casing.
Once all that was done, I took a bit of a random shot at resolving the issue with the Macintosh 512Ke logic board. In the process of tinkering at random, I took the ROM LOW chip from the Plus board and fitted it to the 512Ke board, which resulted in a successful boot. Not surprisingly, the ROM was the same down to the checksum, so I left the Plus ROM on the 512Ke board instead of seeking out another set of replacements.
With a successful boot, I was now presented with the flashing question mark prompting me for a system disk. In another stroke of luck, I was able to find a System Disk in my random stash of old disks, which booted the system to the desktop without any issues.
http://img571.imageshack.us/img571/908/dcp2438.jpg
This was a great result, but it exposed another issue that I hadn't quite noticed before. The CRT was displaying a raster that was taller yet narrower than Apple's specifications and it was also somewhat warped on each corner. To correct this, I borrowed the electronics tools from my high school at the time to calibrate the display. These CRTs are extremely sensitive to even a 2 degree turn of the yoke, so even the very slightest movement will be reflected as a significant tilt of the CRT raster. It took literally hours to get the raster displaying perfectly straight with no warping or blurring of the edges. After that was sorted though, brightness, contrast, focus and voltages were otherwise extremely easy to adjust in comparison.
This pretty well bought the project to completion. Not one component inside the system hadn't been worked on at some stage and all of them seemed to be working within spec, so I was satisfied with the result.
I had some other bits and pieces collected over the years that I was finally able to use now that I had the computer to use them with.
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/2509/dcp2449.jpg
For the most part the computer has stayed in that condition and configuration since then. It doesn't get much use, but it makes for an interesting discussion piece and every now and then it's great to fire up MacWrite, MacPaint or Apple's bundled Maze game (titled "Amazing") and just mess around with it for a while. It has a certain charm of its own, in its design, its simplicity and it's overall retro appeal.
Anyway, that's the story of the 512Ke Restoration Project. It took just a little over a month of on and off work to complete it, and about $80 Australian to build it up with fresh components.
I'm sure some of the vintage Mac collectors around here will be interested in it, and also interested to know it's not the only machine i've done such work to. I also have an Apple II Plus in the next room that's had similar treatment (mainly cosmetic) and an iMac G3 that's undergone extensive work similar to this. For me, it's the challenge that keeps me coming back, but the end result is equally as rewarding.
Cheers :cool:
- Michael
I started working on this project in August so a while ago now. I'm a regular over on MacTalk Australia, and at the time I arranged with one of the forum members to buy up 2 old Compact Macs from a batch of 20 to 30 machines he was clearing out, one of which worked and one of which didn't, a Macintosh 512Ke. For the most part it was completely dead, it didn't even make it to a successful boot chime. Being an otherwise huge fan of the Macintosh (original) body shape and design, I bought it with the intention of doing some work on it. I had no idea what to expect and admittedly assumed something fairly minor.
When it arrived, it was in pretty good shape externally. Internally it was the opposite. Age had taken its toll on the old Macintosh and left the internal frame looking a little rusty, the lower logic board cover stained with calcium, the floppy disk drive gummed up and the rest of it covered in dust. It quickly became apparent that this would be more of a challenge than i first thought.
Being a bit of a Mac nut that has a background of repairing cars, I chose to begin restoring the old machine.
http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/1624/photowvp.jpg
So obviously the first challenge was to make this thing actually power on and boot up. When connected to mains and switched on, it would initialize the floppy disk drive over and over again while whistling... so it wasn't supplying the necessary current to start the machine up, or too much, but all I knew was that the power supply was in a self-protection mode due to some form of fault.
So, I bought a new set of capacitors. Unfortunately the total of the capacitors was around $60 AUD... $47 of which was in 4 mains filter capacitors. So I just skipped them and bought the rest. In the end I needed to bite the bullet for the remaining 4 filter caps, so it has all new capacitors all around, but that was still not enough to kick it over. Admittedly this left me somewhat puzzled. I was pretty sure that would have done the trick.
What was still holding it back was the Flyback transformer. Although otherwise healthy and working, the solder joints securing it to the Analog Board were cracked. After desoldering and resoldering it with fresh solder, fixing the electrical connections in the process, the Mac was able to finally power on.
http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/6301/dcp2423.jpg
http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/9049/20090826qxq1119wmnu1atj.jpg
http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/4949/dcp2364.jpg
I considered that a temporary success, being surprised to get even this far, and reapplied the glue to the new capacitors to prevent them from moving, as they do in the factory.
Even so, I still had a Sad Mac to deal with. There was no error code, just garbage, which didn't make the fault isolation process any simpler. I didn't know what was wrong, only that the logic board was at fault. Many of the usual basic components tested fine, so the culprit had to be a bad IC, which are not only near impossible to diagnose with home tools, but also difficult to find replacements for.
I had no idea where to go from here, so I turned to another member on the MacTalk Australia forums who happened to find another compact Mac, a Macintosh Plus, with analog board issues (cracked joints) and some case yellowing. I at least wanted one working Compact Mac. When it arrived, I noticed the case was indeed a nice shade of yellow on the front bezel and the analog board had a nasty habit of tripping the safety switches in my house.
However the logic board from the Plus did work in the 512Ke and did in fact tell me that the analog board restoration had gone well, so I pressed on with some of the basics. This involved cleaning out the 512's floppy disk drive and relubricating the moving parts, removing any rust and corrosion from the internal frame by means of sanding and cleaning away the remaining dirt and debris from the rear "bucket" casing.
Once all that was done, I took a bit of a random shot at resolving the issue with the Macintosh 512Ke logic board. In the process of tinkering at random, I took the ROM LOW chip from the Plus board and fitted it to the 512Ke board, which resulted in a successful boot. Not surprisingly, the ROM was the same down to the checksum, so I left the Plus ROM on the 512Ke board instead of seeking out another set of replacements.
With a successful boot, I was now presented with the flashing question mark prompting me for a system disk. In another stroke of luck, I was able to find a System Disk in my random stash of old disks, which booted the system to the desktop without any issues.
http://img571.imageshack.us/img571/908/dcp2438.jpg
This was a great result, but it exposed another issue that I hadn't quite noticed before. The CRT was displaying a raster that was taller yet narrower than Apple's specifications and it was also somewhat warped on each corner. To correct this, I borrowed the electronics tools from my high school at the time to calibrate the display. These CRTs are extremely sensitive to even a 2 degree turn of the yoke, so even the very slightest movement will be reflected as a significant tilt of the CRT raster. It took literally hours to get the raster displaying perfectly straight with no warping or blurring of the edges. After that was sorted though, brightness, contrast, focus and voltages were otherwise extremely easy to adjust in comparison.
This pretty well bought the project to completion. Not one component inside the system hadn't been worked on at some stage and all of them seemed to be working within spec, so I was satisfied with the result.
I had some other bits and pieces collected over the years that I was finally able to use now that I had the computer to use them with.
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/2509/dcp2449.jpg
For the most part the computer has stayed in that condition and configuration since then. It doesn't get much use, but it makes for an interesting discussion piece and every now and then it's great to fire up MacWrite, MacPaint or Apple's bundled Maze game (titled "Amazing") and just mess around with it for a while. It has a certain charm of its own, in its design, its simplicity and it's overall retro appeal.
Anyway, that's the story of the 512Ke Restoration Project. It took just a little over a month of on and off work to complete it, and about $80 Australian to build it up with fresh components.
I'm sure some of the vintage Mac collectors around here will be interested in it, and also interested to know it's not the only machine i've done such work to. I also have an Apple II Plus in the next room that's had similar treatment (mainly cosmetic) and an iMac G3 that's undergone extensive work similar to this. For me, it's the challenge that keeps me coming back, but the end result is equally as rewarding.
Cheers :cool:
- Michael
applemacdude
Aug 21, 12:24 AM
Ta-da
Sun Baked
Jul 5, 10:09 PM
Take www.barefeats.com recent FW800 test as an example...
Of what, I don't know. But at least he ran a test and played with the darn things.
Of what, I don't know. But at least he ran a test and played with the darn things.
wrldwzrd89
Apr 27, 06:25 AM
Which version of Microsoft Word do you have? (2008? 2011?) Have you installed the latest service releases?
shannonbrooke
May 5, 03:31 AM
I noticed there is quite a bit of dust in my iPhone charging port...do you think this will eventually affect charging/syncing? And what can I do to clean it without causing any damage? Thanks!
neonart
Dec 10, 08:13 AM
Very interesting! I may try this...
Has anyone been able to use it?
Has anyone been able to use it?
Parkin Pig
Feb 15, 08:04 AM
I've got a 5th generation Nano (and a mint 1st gen which still works a treat).
I love the scroll wheel, as it's perfect for operating in your pocket. Also the 5th gen has the video camera and video playback. OK it's not the most amazing video camera, but it's perfectly adequate for YouTube.
Unfortunately Apple are expected to update their products regularly, and the 5th gen was pretty much optimised, so they had to resort to a radical redesign.
I love the scroll wheel, as it's perfect for operating in your pocket. Also the 5th gen has the video camera and video playback. OK it's not the most amazing video camera, but it's perfectly adequate for YouTube.
Unfortunately Apple are expected to update their products regularly, and the 5th gen was pretty much optimised, so they had to resort to a radical redesign.
Blake1
May 6, 12:17 PM
Samuri
I have a few games I would really to see benchmarked. Starcraft II and Company of Heroes. Company of Heroes is a windows based game, but I would love to see it run if you could! Thanks.
I have a few games I would really to see benchmarked. Starcraft II and Company of Heroes. Company of Heroes is a windows based game, but I would love to see it run if you could! Thanks.
Ibanez Strummer
Apr 1, 12:12 PM
Give it to someone who can't afford a gaming system.
I know people I could give it to, but surely they would have no use for it either. Without a working CD drive they won't be able to play games on it!
I know people I could give it to, but surely they would have no use for it either. Without a working CD drive they won't be able to play games on it!
obeygiant
Oct 25, 08:30 AM
I guess if the person in question was being a complete tool, I see no problem with them suffering the mild embarrassment of having the "in time out" badge under their name. Its a wildly inflated ego who can't deal with a time-out title for a short time.
webazoid
Apr 24, 11:31 PM
In parallels w/ default 1 cpu, 1 gb ram:
Processor: 4.9
Ram: 4.5
Graphics: 5.3
Gaming graphics: 4.7
Primary hard disk: 5.9
I wonder how the mbp 2010 rates in bootcamp and parallels.
Processor: 4.9
Ram: 4.5
Graphics: 5.3
Gaming graphics: 4.7
Primary hard disk: 5.9
I wonder how the mbp 2010 rates in bootcamp and parallels.
Ace134blue
Apr 28, 10:34 PM
Restore and re jailbreak than.
I have 153MB free in Sbssettings on my ipod touch 4g
I have 153MB free in Sbssettings on my ipod touch 4g
simsaladimbamba
Apr 28, 06:32 PM
It is just like any regular USB flash memory thumb drive, thus you plug it into one of the free USB ports.
http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lb8kar0lf41qb73i3o1_500.jpg
http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lb8kar0lf41qb73i3o1_500.jpg
jbembe
Nov 2, 08:18 PM
I can't figure out how to place a song in the category of "simply like" and not recommended.
Anybody know?
Anybody know?
mms
Jan 6, 09:18 PM
Try Pacifier (http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/12743).
weenie
Mar 30, 02:48 AM
...After all we live in deeds not in years.
I like this...
I like this...
bousozoku
Mar 1, 11:18 PM
Okay, after using it for a little while, the only real complaint I have is that the Personal Toolbar Folder items show up in a rather small font size that looks cruder than it should.
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