OS X Lion freezes at login screen App…: Apple Support Communities. So the poster updated the issue. Apparently a known issue that Apple is working on. Applies to the following issue: “Mid-2010 MacBook Pro 15” which experiences a spinning-ball freeze at login with OS X Lion”

You can’t use AirDrop over ethernet, so if you try to connect to a wired machine, it won’t work. Kellow goes into more detail below.

I might have found the reason behind the aforementioned behavior:

The AirDrop feature is apparently a Lion/AirPort-feature, and not a Lion/network-feature, meaning, if the iMac is connected to the network through a cable (RJ45), the above described behavior is the result.

The third issue mentioned, is apparently just how AirDrop works. AirDrop needs to be “activated” by Finder, which opens a ad hoc network though the AirPort. This does limit the use cases a lot.

Now, if only Apple would consider implementing AirDrop in iOS, the use cases would make a lot more sense…

I had a friend who has a new MacBook Pro and called me this morning panicked. His MBP started up and said “Could not find a bootable drive” or something like that. I had him restart and hold down the option button and then select his boot drive. Then he went to the System Preferences > Startup Disk and selected his drive. He shut down the computer. Then started it up and it started normally. He had upgraded from the most updated Snow Leopard 10.6.8.

I am going to help him burn a USB drive and do a clean install. It was a negative experience and one that I don’t recall any other version of Mac OS doing. The Mac OS has some great features, but when there is a bug, there is a show stopping bug. Apple doesn’t go halfway with features or with issues.

Using a Mac on the Corporate Windows-only Network – A Guide for Macbook Users. These are tips that I have used myself to set up Mac’s in Windows standard infrastructures. I think the key point that many might have problems with is that IT may restrict printers and other things to only computers that have joined the domain. So if you can’t get these suggestions to work, go to the accounts window and ask your IT person to join it to the domain.

Why Wine and Macbooks Don’t Mix…and How to Handle the Aftermath | Nettuts+. He was very fortunate. Many times liquids and laptops don’t end so well. I always put drinks far away from laptops. I have seen too many damaged.

MacBook Battery Won\’t Charge…Get \. I have seen this myself on my laptop. I know that my battery is nearing its end, but for some posters it seems to be a new battery that can cause this. This is what I would do.

1. Make sure you have all the updates to your system. I believe there was a firmware update for the MacBook Pro for this.
2. Do the SMC reset, the PRAM reset, and fix the disk permissions.
3. Take out the battery and leave it out for a half hour. Put it back in and start-up the laptop and do a fsck -fy in single user mode.
4. Trash any battery/power related preferences in the user preference library.

Let me know if this works for you. It worked for me.

My black macbook from fall 2007 has served me very well for the 3 and a half years Ive had it.  The only upgrade I did since buying it was to upgrade the RAM to 4 GB (667 MHz DDR2), which was relatively inexpensive and certainly worth it.  The 2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor is relatively speedy, or at least speedy enough for nearly anything Im doing with my computer.  The screen is large enough for me, and I wouldnt really want a machine l … Read More

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For those who don’t mind a little work, installing your own RAM or Hard Drive on a Mac is a pretty easy way to improve performance. This gentleman shares with you something that you might benefit from as well.

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I have the 2010 macbook pro i7, i love this thing and its nice and powerful. A good friend got a new macbook air and when i watched the speed of the little thing it was obvious the hard drive in any computer becomes the biggest bottle neck in the speed of the thing. So i decided to stick a SSD in my macbook pro. So 1st decision which one? You will spend days looking in to this, the big area to keep an eye on is that Lion will support TRIM so i wo … Read More

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I helped a friend yesterday with this problem. She said that her MacBook Pro just started to double-click items when she single clicked on them in the finder. It did this behavior with other mice, and also with the built-in trackpad. So here is what I did to solve the issue.

1. Trashed specific plist’s in the /users/username/library/preferences folder.
2. Trashed all plist’s in the users/username/library/preferences folder.
3. Trashed all files in the users/username/library/caches folder.
4. Reset the PRAM by holding down the keys 3 times
5. Reset the SMC
6. Tried a terminal command that was something like write -g Delaysomething 1000
7. Reinstalled the OS system with the disk that came with the machine. Updated the software configuration.

Nothing that I did helped. She said the machine also had a kernel panic for the first time. According to the research that I did, Apple genius workers solved this issue by swapping out the machine for others. Has anyone else found a solution to this?

It is pretty amazing the investment that this person has made. Its pretty cool looking isn’t it?

So I was just surfing the web, googling random stuff, you know. Then I come across this chair and it was love at first sight! I want the one with the iMac touch screen installed in it! Its just TOO awesome! How come I never knew about this! Its costs around 10,000 Euros so it must be amazing, but is it really worth it? Haha that I do not know! Anywho just thought Id inform you of this awesome invention! … Read More

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Pegasus Thunderbolt™ Technology DAS. I would like to see a benchmark if this really is the fastest. Lots of things can affect speed. Other options for DAS are here.

ColbertBook Pro

Originally uploaded by Dan Correia

Both Colbert and Stewart have used MacBook Pro‘s to use onscreen. I wonder if they get Apple product placement money?

I already had a 500GB hard drive in my computer (a MacBook Pro) and 4GB of memory, but I was looking for the next upgrade, the computer still being fairly current and only a year old. Perceived wisdom would say upgrade to 8GB of memory, but a new breed of disk drive has been introduced which in my opinion changes this. Solid State Drives have been around for a while, but they are prohibitively expensive, being well over £1500 for a 500GB drive, 8 … Read More

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Apple – Support – Discussions – is Macbook pro i7 good for starcraft 2? ….  I know, we finally get to the crucial issues!  I don’t have this game.  Anyone else playing it successfully?

Apple is being sued by the insurance company of a Connecticut family whose house was badly damaged by a fire started by an Apple laptop charger. The fire occurred in May 2008, and the Glastonbury fire marshal determined that the charger for an Apple MacBook Pro triggered the blaze. Insurance company Great Northern paid a claim of more than one-million dollars in damages, and is now seeking to recover those damages from California-based Apple. … Read More

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I was talking recently with Heather, who now owns a MacBook, an Apple TV, a Mac Mini and multiple iPhones, and uses a MacBook Pro at work. Heather was relatively anti-Mac when we started working together. Now, there are people who own Apple products because of her. She half-joked that there should be some sort of referral program. Apple, she argued, should cut me in for a piece of the action on purchases made directly or indirectly because of me. … Read More

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Apple – Support – Discussions – System clock jumps ahead seven hours ….  Reinstalling the system seem to fix the issue but it reoccurs for Carla.  Weird isn’t it?  Probably a bad battery or logic board.

MacBook Pro owners eligible for free repair in Nvidia lawsuit settlement Laptops MacUser Macworld.  What a pain this has been for everyone.

Colorful Personalized Mod on a Mac Book Pro 15 inches

Originally uploaded by Ruben Mcqueen

Beautiful work! It’s really creative the kind of mods that are done.

251/365 Danbos Guerilla Marketing

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These box people are everywhere! Its fun to see those situations.

First of all… apparently this blog will continue to live as a more informal counterpart to http://www.MajorC.co.uk/ and http://www.MajorC.co.uk/blog because I need a place to post these less music related-stories. so…Hurray! But this article is more for people with Macbook Pro laptops that are suffering from nvidia always-on-itis.  This is the terrible condition where your “up to 8-9 hours” battery life proves to be absolutely nowhere near tr … Read More

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Some of the useful applications/utilities I use on my Macbook Pro: Textmate Notepad++ used to be my favorite code editor an year ago when I was a Windows user. I still feel Notepad++ is the best GUI based text editor, very useful and lightweight. But Textmate is equally good and when you get used to it, you’ll realize the power it offers to you. Adium Probably the best messenger client on Mac. Supports all the major IM services. DiffMerge A simpl … Read More

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Turns out it needed a new logic board. Applecare fixed it. What a deal! If you don’t have Applecare, but still within the warranty period go to an Apple Store. Apple has the best repair policies of any vendor I have worked with.

Resolution

1. Wait 5 seconds for the screen to automatically re-size or activate.
2. If this doesn’t occur after 5 seconds, click Detect Displays in the Displays pane of System Preferences.
3. If the internal (or external) display still doesn’t re-size or activate, press the F7 key to turn on mirroring mode, or restart the computer.

You can do much more with this application. Very cool.

Apple said: “This update is recommended for all Macintosh computers running Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.2 and includes fixes for the following:

• Inability to turn AirPort on or off in some cases after upgrading from Mac OS X Leopard
• An occasional loss of network connection when using Wake on Demand
• Inability to create a computer-to-computer network, or share the Internet connection on some MacBook, MacBook Pro, and Mac mini computers”  Go to software update and run it.