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Category: Apple

  • MobileMe free alternative with Google

    MobileMeI have been using MobileMe and paying 79$ for a couple of years now. Couple of days ago I show an article saying that you could sync all your Contact,Calendar and Notes with Gmail. This is done by connecting your iPhone to Gmail as an Exchange Server instead of as a regular Gmail Account.

    Before continuing further you should backup your iPhone since in many steps you will be prompted to delete all your contacts locally from the iPhone and you should do so!

    The first thing you need to do is connect your iPhone to your PC and sync your contacts with Google. After doing so you should be able to see all your contacts through Gmail. You must verify that the number of contacts match in order to be sure not to lose any contact. Having your contacts safe on Gmail and on your iTunes backup you remove any gmail account from the iPhone and setup a new one but instead of selecting Gmail Account you choose Microsoft Exchange. Give your Gmail credentials and when prompted for a server use m.google.com. Then select all three possible syncs (Mail,Contacts,Calendar) and continue. When prompted to delete all your contacts from your iPhone you should do so to avoid duplicate values.

    That’s all! You are now synced with Google!

  • Bootcamp Time Difference Between Mac OS And Windows

    This is what you need to do in order to fix the time when booting in Mac OS:

    1. Create new file /sbin/localtime-toggle with the following contents:

    #!/bin/sh

to_utc() {
echo "localtime-toggle: Toggling to UTC."
date -f %m%d%H%M%Y `date -u +%m%d%H%M%Y`
}

to_localtime() {
echo "localtime-toggle: Toggling to localtime."
date -u -f %m%d%H%M%Y `date +%m%d%H%M%Y`
}

trap 'to_localtime; exit' term
to_utc
{ while true; do sleep 86400; done; } &
wait

    2. Ensure that localtime-toggle is executable:

    chmod +x /sbin/localtime-toggle

    3. Create new file /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.osx86.localtime-toggle.plist with the following contents:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
   <key>Label</key>
   <string>org.osx86.localtime-toggle</string>
   <key>Program</key>
   <string>/sbin/localtime-toggle</string>
   <key>KeepAlive</key>
   <true/>
   <key>RunAtLoad</key>
   <true/>
   <key>HopefullyExitsFirst</key>
   <true/>
</dict>
</plist>

    4. Reboot.
    At this point, your computer’s clock should correctly be set to UTC as Leopard boots, and reset back to local time as Leopard shuts down.

  • Bootcamp Problem on Windows 7 with Audiodg.exe High CPU Usage

    BootcampDid you recently installed Windows 7 on your Mac Book Pro and experience problems while watching movies or YouTube videos? This problem is comming from your audio drivers. It seems that whenever you play something on your laptop and because the microphone is always open your sound card is trying to eliminate noise and this causes audiodg.exe to use some times more than 30% of the CPU.

    So here is what you have to do to be able to use your laptop with no problem!

    Disabling Audio Effects

    In order to fix the high CPU usage, I disabled the audio enhancements processed by the audiodg.exe file. To disable the audio enhancements, use the following steps:

    1. Right-click the speaker icon in the lower right corner.
    2. Select Playback Devices from the menu. A list of devices should appear on the screen.
    3. Double-click the device that has a green checkmark. The properties windows for that device should open.
    4. Click the Enhancements tab at the top.
    5. From the list of enhancements, uncheck all of them, or click the Disable all enhancements checkbox.
    6. Click the OK button to save your changes and close the window.
    7. Click OK to close the Playback Devices window.

    Once I disabled the enhancements, the movie played without any issues. I also didn’t notice any difference in sound with the enhancements disabled. If I do want to use sound enhancements, I’ll stick to the the options provided in the application. Something else you could try is disable the microphone if you do not use it, although I have not tested this myself.