OSX supports real hibernation not only that sleep mode that costs electricity. It really supports it. But you gotta enable or disable it manually. So what to do:
sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 1Enjoy folks…
We all know Time Machine is handy (at least since update 10.5.2 which fixed tons of issues). But one thing is not very handy: we usually cannot change the intervall of the backups. Before I will show you a simple solution please do me the favor to tell me:
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sudo defaults write /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.backupd-auto StartInterval -int 1800sudo defaults write /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.backupd-auto StartInterval -int 3600sudo defaults write /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.backupd-auto StartInterval -int 21600
sudo defaults write /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.backupd-auto StartInterval -int 43200The simple formula is just a conversion from minutes or hours to seconds. Means: 1800 seconds = 30 minutes…
You can also go smack to the /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.backupd-auto file and edit it using a texteditor and change the StartInterval values. But I feel like the solution above might be faster… Kudos fly to mactricksandtips.com.
Loading ...“and first for something complete different”: Muzaq… coding or administrating system can’t do without gooood muzaq. Check our latest tunes here :-)
Deutschsprachige Version weiter unten…
Sadly but the iPhone and the iPod Touch doesn’t understand a regular DivX, XviD or anything else in AVI containers. So if you don’t like commercial software either there is a very nice way using the VideoLanClient MediaPlayer. Follow these steps:
File -> Open File” – a dialog pops upBrowse” to the file you wanna convert (see pic for reference)Streaming/Saving” and click on “Settings” – a new dialog pops up
Encapsulation” as “mp4“512 - 2048” kb/s (problems may occur above 2500 kb/s – btw: there is no need to convert an xvid with 800kb/s to mp4 with 2000kb/s. My experience says: 1024kb/s is way sufficient for the iPhone’s little display)Audio” as “mp4a“64 - 256” kb/s (I am really satisfied with 192kb/s but don’t hesitate to play with these configs)
OK” ;-) – you will land in the first window againOK" aswellProlly some errors occur with dropped frames or something: you can almost forget them. So far I didn’t have any video that did not play properly on the iPhone…
This howto is based on notes by Tim Fick.
See above for english language version…
Ok also für das Land der Filmfreunde eine kurze Übersetzung mit deutschen Bildern… Ihr kennt möglicherweise das Problem schon: das iPhone kann mit den allermeisten Eurer Videos nichts anfangen, außer mit diesem merkwürdigen .mp4 Format, mit dem sich Euer DVD Player oder das XBMC gar nicht gut vertragen. Das iPhone braucht also mal wieder eine Extrawurst und die lassen sich viele Hersteller von Konvertierungsprogrammen gerne ein wenig bezahlen. Im Folgenden findet Ihr allerdings eine Anleitung, bei der Ihr mit einem einzigen kostenlosen Tool (dem VideoLan Client) nach iPhone kompatiblem .mp4 konvertiert. Die Fotos sind von der Mac Version, der VLC sieht aber unter Windows (nahezu) identisch aus…
Ablage -> Datei öffnen” (unter Windows wird das “Datei -> Datei öffnen sein”) und ein Dialogfenster wird sich öffnenDurchsuchen“, um die zu konvertierende Datei auszuwählen (siehe Bild)Streamen/Sichern” and klick auf “Einstellungen” – und es öffnet sich ein neues Dialogfenster
Verkapselungsmethode” (schon ein geiles Wort auf Deutsch, tsts…) nehmt Ihr “mp4“512 - 2048” kb/s festlegen (ab 2500 kb/s soll es wohl Probleme geben mit der Wiedergabe auf dem iPhone – aber es macht ohnehin keinen Sinn ein 800kb/s XViD nach 2000kb/s mp4 zu transkodieren. In meinen Fällen haben 1024kb/s für das Minidisplay the iPhones vollkommen ausgereicht und ich meine vollkommen ausgereicht)Audio” auf “mp4a” stellen64 - 256” kb/s festlegen (mir reichen 192kb/s vollkommen ;-)
OK” klicken und Ihr landet wieder in dem ersten DialogfensterOK" klickenEnjoy
As a dualbooter you are often confronted with the problem that you just saved a file on the other system. While being on OS X this is not a too big problem since you can at least access those NTFS (read only) and Fat32 (read/write support) drives. But being confronted with Microsoft Windows you are stuck.
But hey wait: try this nice Java Open Source Project: Catacombae HFS Explorer (link). It opens and extracts files from drives and images formatted in HFS+. Sadly it seems not be able to write to those disks. For having read and write access to your HFS+ disks I strongly recommend Macdrive 7
Jeder von MacBook Pro oder Hackintosh Dualbootern kennt die Situation, dass wir gerade nach Microsoft Windows gebootet haben, aber eine bestimmte Datei leider eben unter OS X liegt. Für Leute, die nur lesend auf ihre OSX Partition zugreifen wollen, gibt es das Open Source Projekt Catacombae HFS Explorer (link). Schreiben kann dieses Programm auf HFS+ Dateisysteme aber leider noch nicht. Um lesend und schreibend auf die OS X Partition zuzugreifen, empfehle ich Macdrive 7
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver Quartz2DExtremeEnabled 1sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver Quartz2DExtremeEnabled -boolean YES – it does perfectly the same like the first command and is only a matter of taste!There is also another way via using QuartzDebug (search for it on the net, it required the Development tools on the Leopard disk)…
Abstract
After having had too much hazzle with the Gigabyte ATI x1650 (Device ID 71c6) I decided to buy a new graphics card. What made me buy that ATI (or in general an ATI card) again?
Where to obtain
German users are provided with a link to Amazon.de where they can buy exactly the graphics card I used for the following howto. But in contrast to my fellow german users the american users cannot be provided with such a link, because Amazon.com doesn’t offer that card. Search it elsewhere or just order from the german Amazon store using this link: Sapphire RADEON HD 2600 XT PCIe
How to install (_t_h_e___h_a_z_z_l_e___f_r_e_e___w_a_y_)
Ok so, after having bought this new graphic card, don’t just install it yet into your tower or desktop. Instead boot your system into OS X while having your old graphics card installed. Follow those steps:
/System/Library/Extensions/Natit.kext : open terminal and type: chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/Natit.kextCircumventing issues
If anything does not work and your screen looks garbled. I recommend having an XP or Vista installed on another drive and use MediaFour’s MacDrive 7
Sapphire ATI2600 XT 256MB
with HP w2207 (click to enlarge)
Final words
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Addendums for the german speaking community
Falls Ihr Fragen zu der Anleitung habt, bitte in die Kommentare. Wenn sich mehr als fünf deutschsprachige Leute melden, übersetze ich den Artikel. Ansonsten: wer exakt die Karte sucht, die ich verwendet habe, kauft bitte im deutschen Amazon Shop genau diese Karte hier: Sapphire RADEON HD 2600 XT PCIe 256 MB DDR3 128 Bit, Dual DVI, TV-Out, HDMI, OpenGL, DirectX10 Retail
The following assumes:
And most likely since then you – as an ATI x1650 owner won’t be able to change the screen resolution and you have no QE/CI.After hazzling around with my system a lot I can at least offer a solution for the screen resolution problem. Requirements: you have no ATI hacks installed at all. Since I will modify the original ATINDRV.kext. I got device id 71c6 although this should not matter here. Before proceeding please do me the favor and tell me:
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/System/Library/Extension/ATINDRV.kext to your desktopATINDRV.kext package on your desktop/Contents/PlugIns/ATY_Wormy.kext/Contents/
<key>IONameMatch</key>
<string>ATY,Wormy</string>
<key>IONameMatch</key>
<string>display</string><key>IOProviderClass</key>
<string>IONDRVDevice</string><key>IOProviderClass</key>
<string>IOPCIDevice</string>/System/Library/Extensions/ATINDRV.kext with the one you just edited on the desktopAfter reboot the screen resolution should be selectable. Tell me your experiences. I did this with an ATI x1650 which got device id 71c6.
P.S. QE/CI will not be enabled with this! This will be part two ;-)
Loading ...Update 4: (November 27th, 2008): Another formerly fast way of editing has been reported to induce other issues and has thus been removed. Some links for Windows users have been updated.
Update 3: (July 21st, 2008): Pwnage 2.0 tutorial for firmware 2.0 finished (see here). The way to reenable the EDGE settings is still applicable. Please follow part II.)_T_H_E__Z_E_N__W_A_Y_ (scroll down).
(Outdated article removed)
The standard iPhone EDGE settings for Germany (means for people with legit T-Mobile iPhone service plans) are:
apn: smartsites.t-mobile
username: t-mobile
password: tm
Those settings cannot be edited and will always be applied to any T-Mobile SIM card. Problem is: customers with a non-iPhone contract cannot use EDGE then since they need different EDGE settings. Most likely those:
apn: internet.t-mobile
username: t-mobile
password: tm
To be able to change these EDGE settings in a pleasant way just do the following (I assume you got OpenSSH installed already):
1. use Cyberduck (Mac), SmartFTP (Windows) or any other SFTP capable client to connect via SFTP into your iPhone
2. go to /System/Library/Carrier Bundles/T-Mobile_Germany.bundle/ and download carrier.plist to your host
3. since you can’t edit this carrier.plist you first need to convert it
3.1. on OS X you can do it by installing the plist editor contained in Apple’s Developer Tools (bundled with XCode) on your Leopard or Tiger Retail installation DVD or available via download here (site requires registration. Btw: do you know Guerrillamail yet?).
3.2. Windows (and lazy OS X) users go here: http://140.124.181.188/~khchung/cgi-bin/plutil.cgi to convert the plist online. (This address seems not to exist anymore). We recommend to give
a try (warning: we did not have the time to test this yet with either one of these tools. Your feedback is highly appreciated, thanks!).
4. Opening in one of these tools above mentioned, It should most likely look like this (click picture to enlarge):
5. So we need to add those tiny lines to get back EDGE editing capabilities:
<key>AllowEDGEEditing</key>
<true/>
6. You will find “EDGE settings” menu under “Settings” » “General” » “Network” » “EDGE”. Enter the approprate APN and you’re done…
BTW: you can also change the APN settings permanently inside this carrier.plist file. Just locate and replace these lines:
<key>apn</key>
<string>smartsites.t-mobile</string>
<key>password</key>
<string>tm</string>
<key>username</key>
<string>t-mobile</string>
with the appropriate APN settings of your contract…
Kudos to Volkspost (Volxpost) for his findings and his initial 1.1.3 tutorial.
iClarified just released a manual for jailbreaking, activating and unlocking firmware 1.1.4. Bootloader 3.9 seems to be required. They use a modified version of ZiPhone. I expect Zibri not to be happy with this. However this is not updating but recovering to 1.1.4 therefore I strongly recommend to do like iTunes recommends: to save the configuration of your iPhone automatically (means: contacts, calendar entries, text-messages, network configuration, weather etc.). I reinstalled those save configuration settings afterZiPhone activated the phone and before the unlock.
However I can confirm the howto (Mac version) works flawlessly. There is also a howto for Windows users – not tested though…
Die Jungens von iClarified haben eine nette klar verständliche Anleitung verfasst, wie man Firmware 1.1.4 bearbeiten muss. Diese Anleitung benötigt Bootloader 3.9. Zum Einsatz kommt eine modifizierte Version von Zibris ZiPhone. Genau genommen ist der Prozess kein Updaten, sondern ein Recovern auf die Firmware 1.1.4. iTunes bietet deshalb vor dem Recovery-Prozess auch an, die Einstellungen zu sichern. Wenn Ihr das nicht macht, sind die Kontakte, Kalender Einträge, SMS Einträge, WLan Einstellungen, Wetter Einstellungen nach dem Recovern natürlich im Eimer. Meine Empfehlung daher, nach dem ZiPhone das Telefon aktiviert hat, könnt Ihr die gesicherten Einstellungen noch vor dem Unlock wieder in das Telefon zurückspielen…
Ihr findet das englischsprachige HowTo für Mac hier – es funktioniert einwandfrei. Eine Windows Variante gibt es ebenfalls, die ich jedoch nicht getestet habe…
iNdependence 1.4 beta 5 has been released (Mac only). It now supports unlocking (gunlock method by GeoHot). You can get it here. However, the author of “Windows-Mobiles” has had some shocking bad experiences with updating and unlocking using iNdependence 1.4b5. You can read his article here. So prolly stick with whatever firm you got working right now and come back regularly. We’re gonna release a tutorial when everything has become foolproof…
iNdependence 1.4 beta 5 wurde soeben veröffentlicht (nur Mac OSX). Es beinhaltet nun auch die Möglichkeit zu unlocken mittels gunlock Methode von GeoHot. Download hier. Dummerweise findet sich auf “Windows-Mobiles” ein Artikel, in dem recht schlechte Erlebnisse mit dieser neuen iNdependence Version beschrieben werden. Updaten also weiterhin auf eigenene Gefahr. Wir empfehlen noch ein wenig zu warten. Sobald es eine Möglichkeit gibt zu aktivieren und zu unlocken, die wir als foolproof einstufen, wird sie hier als HowTo veröffentlicht…