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… Poursuivre la lecture KeePass and user interface problems
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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… Poursuivre la lecture QuickTime components: one key to step further!
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… Poursuivre la lecture Desperately slow
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… Poursuivre la lecture From Snow Leopard to Lion: a leap towards the limbo
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… Poursuivre la lecture Recovering Final Cut Express
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… Poursuivre la lecture Ubuntu on my Mac: possible but limited
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,… Poursuivre la lecture Unblocked… at least for now…
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… Poursuivre la lecture Preliminary results with Ubuntu booting on Mac
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… Poursuivre la lecture MacTracker report about my MacBook Pro
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… Poursuivre la lecture The obsolescence road block