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An external GPU under Mac OS X : three screens on a MacBook Pro

An external graphic card on a Mac? Some dream of. Others do. An American company has indeed boxes that can contain an ExpressCard card or any PCI-Express card.

Posté le 17/02/2012 par

Acknowledgments under Mac OS X (for Outlook fans)

For Windows and Outlook fans, it is possible to activate the acknowledgments with Mail on Mac OS X. I tell you first : this is a hack. Mail does not support acknowledgments by default and responses may not reach. And unlike Outlook (randomly), it is not really possible to configure the acknowledgments : in other words, either all messages have the demand, or none.

Posté le 13/02/2012 par

Virtualizing Snow Leopard or Leopard on Lion, with VMWare Fusion 4.x

Today, I will show you a trick that will help you to virtualize easily Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) or 10.6 (Snow Leopard) with VMWare Fusion 4.11 (the latest). The MacOS X license does not allow to virtualize the customer versions of the system, even if sometimes the developers ignore it, as with version 4.1 of VMWare Fusion … But as it is perfectly legal to virtualize Mac OS X versions in its dedicated server, it is possible to override the limitation.

Posté le 14/12/2011 par

iPhoto : special album for the iPhone 4 and the 4S

A little trick to recover your photos on the iPhone 4 and to sort them depending on the camera used in iPhoto, with the Smart Albums. It’s pretty simple: ask iPhoto to recover pictures from an iPhone 4 (normally, it will propose it to you if there is at least one photo taken with the iPhone 4) and then sort them by aperture : above 2.6, it is the pictures taken with the back camera, below 2.6, they are taken with the front camera.

Posté le 26/11/2011 par

Connecting a CRT TV to a Mac : the compatibility

Sometimes you need to connect a Mac to an outdated equipment, such as a CRT TV, a projector, or a pico projector. And these seldom manage digital interfaces: analogical interfaces are required.

Posté le 19/11/2011 par

The Apple Djinn, an unknown product

There was a time … A time when the Internet did not exist. A time when modems could not even reach 2400 bauds …The time of the Apple Djinn. This external modem, proposed in partnership with France Telecom (a French operator), worked at 2400 bits per second and provided access to the Minitel, a French telecommunication system that prefigured the Internet.

Posté le 03/11/2011 par

The Apple PowerBop

In the ’90s, France Telecom (the main operator in France) proposed a mobile telephony offer based on the Bi-Bop technology. Technically, it was essentially a kind of portable phone box : the phone was to be used close to a terminal (about 300 m) and the cell change was not supported.

Posté le 31/10/2011 par

How to read HFS+ on Windows 7, without Bootcamp

I was asked the question from time to time : how to read a HFS+ formatted disk on Windows. The basic answer is quite simple: just by installing Boot Camp. Indeed, Apple provides a pilot to read the HFS+ for Snow Leopard.

Posté le 02/09/2011 par

Use the Apple external SuperDrive on (almost) any Mac

An interesting hack today, allowing you to use the Apple external optimal drive (SuperDrive) on (almost) any Mac.

Posté le 01/09/2011 par

Turning a Wi-Fi card into « AirPort Extreme » card

In the previous article, I explained how to install a card purchased on eBay to retrieve an Airdrop compatibility on MacBook. The problem is that the card is not recognized as an Apple card. But it is actually possible to « transform » a Broadcom Wi-Fi card in AirPort Extreme, thanks to Linux. It is a bit complicated to achieve if you do not really know Linux ; but if command lines are not an issue to you, it is pretty feasible. I will now show you how to flash a Broadcom card (a BCM4322 is used here to hack Airdrop).

Posté le 30/08/2011 par