Catégorie : PoneyMac
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KeePass and user interface problems
This morning, I tried to install Ableton‘s Live on my Mac and got an endless sequence of issues. First, I needed to log in to my Ableton Live account in order to get the Mac OS X binaries. Unfortunately, the machine-generated password for that account is stored in a KeePass keyring, so I had to…
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QuickTime components: one key to step further!
Final Cut Express could almost open my Bandicam AVI captures: no image but sound. I recalled that I chose to use Xvid as encoding format in Bandicam so tonight, I did a quick Google search to find some QuickTime components that could add Xvid support. I was not really hopeful to find anything useful, was…
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Desperately slow
This morning, I tried to install Razer Synapse on my Mac now equipped with Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion). That worked very well but brought absolutely NO improvement with respect to mouse smoothness. In fact, it does absolute nothing: no compensation or removal of the unwanted acceleration, and no handling at all of the side…
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From Snow Leopard to Lion: a leap towards the limbo
Again, I was a bit stuck with my Mac. SmoothMouse was helping with the mouse handling but not fully solving the issues with acceleration. Sometimes, the pointer was just going away. I cannot believe I loose it so often: it just disappears! I often have to bring the pointer to the top left corner two…
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Recovering Final Cut Express
Yesterday, I tried to get my Final Cut Express setup back on my Mac. It went away when I reinstalled Mac OS X and formatted the hard drive. However, before formatting, I backed up the complete Applications and Library folders, so I had a possibility to get Final Cut Express back by just copying back…
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Ubuntu on my Mac: possible but limited
I read quite a lot of wrong and contradictory information when I searched for feasibility of installing Ubuntu on my 2006 MacBook Pro. Part of the problem is that users don’t all understand the pieces of the puzzle involved to boot a Mac into Ubuntu, but the multitude of variants of MacBook Pro, with varying…
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Unblocked… at least for now…
After I successfully started Ubuntu on my old Mac, I tried to play YouTube videos from Firefox and that worked relatively well. That means the graphic chip of the Mac is not broken, still capable of doing some work. I thought about just installing Ubuntu on the machine, maybe getting rid of Mac OS X,…
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Preliminary results with Ubuntu booting on Mac
After my more and more frustrating failures with Mac OS X, I wanted to do something to give a second life to this apparently dead system. My previous attempts and research about Ubuntu installation on MacBook Pro 2006 have been a real disaster. But this evening’s attempt is a step toward success! I first downloaded…
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MacTracker report about my MacBook Pro
OVERVIEW Introduced October 2006 Discontinued June 2007 Model Identifier MacBookPro2,2 Model Number A1211 EMC 2120 Order Number MA609LL/A (2.16 GHz), MA610LL/A (2.33 GHz) Initial Price $1,999 (2.16 GHz) $2,499 (2.33 GHz) Support Status Obsolete Case Lightweight aluminum alloy Weight and Dimensions 5.6 lbs., 1″ H x 14.1″ W x 9.6″ D PROCESSOR Processor Intel Core…
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The obsolescence road block
Last weekend, I got to a first dead end: Mac OS X 10.5, installed on my Mac, being deprecated and not accepting any new application, including Firefox, Google Chrome, SmoothMouse, the Razer Synapse driver and probably many others. Besides the difficulties installing applications, I had issues with YouTube playback in both Safari and Chrome (before…