Archive for the ‘Cool Mac Hardware’ Category
Aggregate multiple audio devices
Speaker vs. Headphone Did you ever plug in a headphone? Then the same happens like on the iPhone: The Computer is muted and the headphone makes the music. I hate that! Why? Because I am so fussy and want to spare my hardware. Especially jacks are sensitive and easily getting loose. So it would be [...]
Printer LED mystery
Needing a printer While living in the virtual reality I help my environment to save valuable resources. One of them is avoiding the use of paper whenever possible. But, unfortunately there are some rare situations where somethings needs to get printed out and signed – contracts for example. And the winner is Some years ago, [...]
Boot from USB instead of DVD
You do not want to burn a DVD or CD when installing a new operating system or running some maintenance tools? Me not, too! Espacially, when you want to install something large which normally requires an expensive dual layer DVD or even when no DVD drive is available at all, it makes sense to use [...]
Running Virtual Machines from a USB stick
Since I got my 16 GB USB memory stick, which is a quite huge storage amount, I got the idea to make the best out of it and do a performance test. Many disc accesses are usually done with a Virtual Machine, so I put a blank Parallels Windows XP virtual machine image to the [...]
SanDisk U3 Cruzer
My dad made me a very nice gift. It is the SanDisk USB-memory stick U3 Cruzer with a capacity of 16 GB. I was testing it on his PC laptop and it worked fine and damn fast. A very nice feature is the slider, where you can pull the USB-connector inside the stick, so that [...]
Blackberry HS-655+ Bluetooth headset user guide
The Bluetooth headset branded with HS-655+ or just Blackberry 655+ is a great and tiny thing. It supports Bluetooth 2.0 technology and has a good sound quality and distance range. There are lot of testing reports in the web, but no useful reference manual or user guide. The delivered one is one of the worst [...]
Microsoft toasting with MacBook
Walking to the subway station I saw a an advert with a weird looking notebook on a big poster, but the design is very familar to me, so I decided to take a closer look. It is a MacBookPro with a unusal thick screen and toasts falling into it. Next to it the hashkey “Toastbook”. [...]
Suited fax and call monitoring
If you have a FritzBox or a self fritzed box, then you may want use its genius functions like call monitoring and fax sending and receiving. To have all that comfort really greatful on your Mac’s screen, I absolutely recommend the installation of the Fritz.Mac Suite. Unfortunately it costs almost 30 Euro, but keep in [...]
IDE + SATA = USB
In my bargain bin I found some 3.5 inch harddrives. In fact I do not have a PC, but like a salvager I can not sell such gadgets too cheap to someone who does not use it with dignity. But having extra space for data backup is anyhow nice. Moreover I do not have a [...]
Speedport W701V vs. FritzBox7050
The T-Com Speedport router model W701 V has like many other hardware some hidden talents, but they need to be awaken with the help of tricks. Netzwelt.de wrote an article about the compability of the Speedport hardware and that it would be almost the same like the AVM FritzBox 7050, except for missing a USB [...]
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