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Category: Mac

  • the main Fink web site is down, there is an alternative though (UPDATE)

    You can’t reach the main Fink web site right now, but there is an alternative though.

    2009-10-28: You can fink again. The main Fink web site is still not available though.

  • Safari AdBlocker

    Do you think, I am starting a fairy tale here? No, I’m not. Look it up on Apple’s list of public downloads for Mac OS X. The link there is broken (right now), but read it and bend it! It points you to sweetpproductions.com, there you want to look for the Safari AdBlocker (maybe this link will still be functional). It works with Firefox AdBlock Plus filter subscritions.

    Question is, how long it will take, until the iPhone’s Safari can be made to block ads as well. I mean, an iPhone is an OS X derivative using Cocoa, so I wonder how hard that will be.

    Well, now don’t you complain here, if you find browsing without ads a poor experience!

  • pipe symbol at Apple keyboard

    there is that nice article on where to find the “pipe symbol” / “pipe symbol” on an Apple keyboard. of course nowadays with Snow Leopard or “just” Leopard that’s all different. but it still (with a little fancy and curiousity) helped me finding out, how to get to that thing.

    in short: System Preferences / Language + Text / Input Sources / Show Input menu in menu bar / Show Keyboard Viewer.
    there you play a little with combinations of the shift key, the function key, and just try yourself!

    alright, I actually completed this article — at the cost of letting my SO wait for my call to the gym. sorry for that!

  • my Mac now connects through my UMTS USB modem

    I have been using my “XS Stick W12” from 4g-systems.com for almost a year on my EeePC running WinXP and also on my FRITZ!Box 7270.
    Now I can also make use of it on my Mac Book Pro. Splendid.
    Looks like 4g-systems.com now sell their current model (XS Stick W14) w/o branding and SIM-lock for EUR 100. Not bad, question is, whether the 7270 supports it.

  • my Mac now prints on the colour laser printer attached to the FRITZ!Box router

    The Samsung CLP-315 gets accessed via “HP JetDirect”. Yesterday I wasn’t able to set it up as network printer and let it find the driver on Samsung’s CD. Today I let Samsung’s printer installation routine set up a local printer (which isn’t actually installed), but at least the driver got installed somewhere on OS X, and then I could assign the right driver to the network printer configuration. Now I successfully printed my 1st page on my very own Mac.
    Alright, alright, I admit it: I vaguely remember already having successfully attached my ex’s (i.e. “-1”) Mac Mini (which isn’t officially hers …) my FRITZ!Box …, so I knew it would work sooner or later.
    Now this is really a nice CUPS printer set up underneath!!!
    I wished my openSuSE-11.1 computers would accept the CLP-315 driver as well!
    Until then I only create PDF-s on them and printed them via Windows or OS X.

    I really love this set up: the laser printer attached via USB to my 7270, acting as a network printer.

    AVM’s description on how to attach a printer to the 7270 through USB was actually very helpful:

    Update 2014-07-15:
    The vanilla Mac OS X on my 2014 Mac mini did not have the drivers for my Samsung printers available, even not after the 1st OS updates. After attaching one of them via USBn though (apparently) all the Samsung printer drivers got installed (supposedly via the network). Then installing them one way or the other as network printers worked.