If it was up to me, i’d just replace the cracked topcase on my Macbook myself. I’ve got the Macbook service manual (one that gets issued to the Official Apple Service Centre places) and it’s just as straight forward as I thought. However when I asked the Genius at my local Apple store if [...]
Posts from ‘January, 2008’
Apple Macbook – Build quality continued
In the short time since my previous post about my cracked Macbook i’ve been doing a bit of research and have found identical issues.
Here is a pic with the same problem in the same place, via this thread on Macrumours:
Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch!
There’s even a Flickr group for this problem and an old Engadget post. [...]
Post MWSF Keynote shopping list
Definitely want to pick up the 1TB Time Capsule, much easier than remembering to connect up my external drive every night!
Also, i’m considering picking up an Apple TV to replace the old Mac Mini I have under my TV at the moment (Which i’m going to relocate to the music room to use as a [...]
OS X: Finder won't quit (WindowServer process?)
My last post mentioned that I was having some intermittant issues with my Macbook after resuming from sleep, in that after entering my password I just got a blank screen. Key presses result in an error tone and I have to close the lid and reopen it to gain access to OS X.
It just happened [...]
OS X: Finder won't quit – Logout Timeout
I’ve noticed a few problems with OS X on my Macbook over the last couple of weeks.
I’ve got added ‘Keychain Access’ to my menubar (or toolbar – the one up the top anyway) so that I can just hit ‘Lock Screen’ when I step away from my machine at work. In general it’s been [...]
Renaming folders/tags in Google Reader
I can’t believe that there isn’t a built in way to rename tags within the Google Reader UI! Shocking.
Quickest way I’ve found is to export your feeds (Settings | Import / Export), edit the XML by hand (fortunately my 100 or so feeds are organised within ~12 folders), delete all of your subs from GReader [...]