I was recently invited by Apple to take part in one of their customer support surveys. Besides the somewhat strange URL I noticed an all too familiar favicon: yes, Apple runs JBoss (Web). Of course I played around with the URL a little…here comes the confirmation, it’s JBoss Web 2.2.1:
Looking for a way to modify the default printer presets i.e. the presets called “Standard” in OS X I came across a Mac OS X Hints article that talks about the ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.print.custompresets.plist file. However, what I found way more interesting is that apparently OS X provides a web interface for CUPS at http://localhost:631/ for the […]
On a new OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard the Huwei E220 USB modem (from Swisscom in my case) didn’t work anymore. The USB dongle mounts and the files on the mounted drive were visible but the Unlimited Connection Manager (UCM) installer contained in the mounted drive crashed always. It’s obviously not compatible with 10.6. To […]
By default if a folder in Apple iPhoto contains albums and you delete the folder, the photos in its contained albums will be deleted with it. There’s a warning dialog about this but there’s no option for you to tell iPhoto to get rid off the folder but keep the albums. To achieve this you […]
After upgrading my Mac mini from Leopard to Snow Leopard it did no longer wake from sleep when I sent the magic wake-on-lan package. So, I checked the network and energy settings and noticed that Snow Leopard’s new Wake-On-Demand (WOD ?) feature was disabled. I didn’t change that and started to wonder why WOL didn’t […]
Just discovered a wonderful tutorial over at iClarified how to sync my iPhone with multiple computers. I was quite surprised to learn that I get a “An iPhone can be synced with only one iTunes Library at a time” warning message when I attempted that. I was surprised because this works just fine with the […]
WARNING this was posted in 2009, there’s a newer review for iPhone headsets here: In-ear headset for the iPhone 3GS, round II I’ve spent hours searching for in-ear iPhone headsets that suits my needs (for 3GS). I just might have reached the light at the end of the tunnel… The initial priorities were good sound […]
When I came back from vacation I noticed the Apple remote was not working anymore with my Mac mini. Pressing the “menu” button did not trigger Front Row anymore. I checked the remote itself against the Macbook to rule out low battery or the like – it worked. Hence, the problem had to be the […]
A brother printer hooked up to my AirPort Express base station was not recognized by the AirPort – so it seemed. The respective dialog in the AirPort Utility said: “USB Printer: None”. I spent quite some time trying to find out what the problem was. It turned out that the dialog simply didn’t tell the […]
With Apple Remote for iPhone and iPod Touch you control iTunes on a remote computer. What I only recently found out is that Apple Remote acts as a Wake-On-LAN (WOL) client. At least it does that in my environment. My Mac Mini wakes up from sleep when I start Apple Remote on the iPod Touch […]