Posts belonging to Category Operating Systems
Posted by codethought on January 24, 2010
How To: Apple Boot Camp 64-bit for Windows 7 on “unsupported” Macs
Do you own a Macbook Air or other modern Apple and want to install and use Windows 7 ala Boot Camp? If so, you may have encountered the dreaded “Boot Camp x64 is unsupported on this computer model” error dialog when trying to run [...]
Categories: Hardware, Mac OS X, Operating Systems, Windows |
Tags: 2007 mac, os x, windows 7 | 
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Posted by codethought on December 21, 2009
For some reason the ROM Images for the Android Dev Phone 1 have the links missing from the main ADP-1 download site. When you go to http://developer.htc.com/adp.html You’re greeted with a table of ROM images and file names but the links have been removed:
(You can click on the image to see the full-size [...]
Categories: Android, Java, Mac OS X, Operating Systems |
Tags: Android, android dev phone, htc | No Comments »
Posted by codethought on November 29, 2009
In an amazing moment of WTF I discovered this morning that after installing Mac OS X 10.6 (aka Snow Leopard) that the only version of Java running on it was 1.6. Now as an end-user, people probably won’t care. And I can kind of understand why Apple did it, given that Sun has [...]
Categories: J2EE, Java, Mac OS X, Operating Systems |
Tags: installing-java-1-5-on-snow-leopard, Java, os x, snow leopard | No Comments »
Posted by codethought on November 21, 2009
Along with so many others, I upgraded to Snow Leopard. Overall the upgrade went without a hitch. However, I noticed that my Subversion repository was no longer available from Subclipse or via the Web Browser. Not good.
So I did some digging around and upon finding this article from Patrick Rice http://patrick-rice.net/daybook/2009/09/20/subversion-snow-leopard-etc/ I [...]
Categories: Java, Mac OS X, Operating Systems |
Tags: os x, snow leopard, subversion, svn | 1 Comment »
Posted by codethought on July 3, 2009
If you use and Android device like the T-Mobile G1 and you haven’t heard of Bloo yet, you will. This is probably the slickest application for Facebook on *any* platform. Excellent photo album and photo upload support, a slick user interface a small memory footprint, and it’s obviously clean, tight code judging from [...]
Categories: Android, Operating Systems, Telephony |
Tags: Android, Facebook | No Comments »
Posted by codethought on May 24, 2009
T-Mobile was supposed to release Android OS 1.5 (originally code-named ‘Cupcake’) was supposed to be released the week of May 18th. However T-Mobile decided to delay the release.
Enter the Android community… Someone has found the downloadable version of Cupcake, signed and ready to install on the T-Mobile G1! And with a few [...]
Categories: Android, Java, Linux, Operating Systems, Programming, Telephony |
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Posted by codethought on April 19, 2009
The bug allows a guest operating system (that’s the OS running inside the virtual machine) to execute code on the host operating system (the OS running the actual virtualization program). Kostya created a short video that shows just how this works. In the video, a Windows XP guest operating system launches the Calculator application in [...]
Categories: Mac OS X, Operating Systems, Windows XP |
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Posted by codethought on April 18, 2009
Android 1.5 is just around the corner. It introduces APIs for features such as soft keyboards, home screen widgets, live folders, and speech recognition. While none of this will be available on the T-Mobile G1 (until T-Mobile does an official release – IF they do) it’s worth getting ready for.
Android Developers Blog: Getting ready [...]
Categories: Android, Operating Systems, Telephony |
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Posted by codethought on April 18, 2009
Huawei confirm T-Mobile G3 for Euro Q3 launch: “
Huawei have confirmed that they will be supplying T-Mobile with their Android-based smartphone, which will launch in Q3 2009 as the T-Mobile G3. An Huawei spokesperson has told reporters that ‘I can confirm that Huawei will be releasing the third Google phone on T-Mobile this year’, with [...]
Categories: Android, Operating Systems, Telephony |
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Posted by davidjr on January 17, 2009
The (in)famous free Mac software bundle is finally out.
For those of you who want the freebies but do not want to do the heist (like me):
1. Be sure you’re logged into
http://www.macheist.com/
2. Go to
http://mainframe.macheist.com/
3. Copy/Paste each of these URLs into the box and click on the button after each one: *You’ll have to right click -> [...]
Categories: General, Mac OS X |
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