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How to Install Memory in a Macintosh

Joel Fugazzotto — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 18:14:37 +0000

As I mentioned in my previous post, Other World Computing (OWC) not only has a great selection of Macintosh hardware products at decent prices, but they also have taken the time out to produce some easy-to-follow videos on installing the hardware in your Mac.

Here is an example of a video showing how to install memory (RAM) into G4 AGP ‘Sawtooth’ and ‘Gigabit Ethernet’ Macintoshes:

Click on the PLAY button to watch the movie.

How to Install a Hard Drive in a Macintosh

Joel Fugazzotto — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 17:32:02 +0000

Other World Computing (OWC) not only has a great selection of Macintosh hardware products at decent prices, but they also have taken the time out to produce some easy-to-follow videos on installing the hardware in your Mac.

Here’s an example of a video showing how to install a Parallel ATA hard drive into G4 AGP ‘Sawtooth’ & ‘Gigabit Ethernet’ Macintoshes:

Click on the PLAY button to watch the movie.

OWC offers each video in various different resolutions (High Quality, Medium Quality, Low Quality, and Modem Quality). Depending on your bandwidth restrictions, I would suggest the highest quality video, since the video is easier to view. The video above links to the medium quality video.

The only drawback to using video to explain how to install hardware is that if you only have one computer, you cannot watch the video while you are installing the hardware. I typically watch the video from my PowerBook G4 while doing the hardware installation on another computer. Using the video pause button, allows you to stop the video, while you complete the step just explained to you.

Here’s a list of computers which have videos for installing hard drives (linked to the medium resolution videos):
How to install a hard drive in G4 AGP ‘Sawtooth’ & ‘Gigabit Ethernet’ Macs
- Parallel ATA& PCI Card Installation

How to install a hard drive in G4 AGP ‘Sawtooth’ & ‘Gigabit Ethernet’ Macs
- Serial ATA & PCI Card Installation

How to install a hard drive in a G4 Cube Mac

How to install a hard drive in G4 ‘QuickSilver’ & ‘QuickSilver 2002′ Macs
- Parallel ATA & PCI Card Installation

How to install a hard drive in a G4 ‘QuickSilver’; & ‘QuickSilver 2002′ Macs
– Serial ATA & PCI Card Installation

How to install a hard drive in a G4 ‘Mirrored Drive Door’/'FireWire 800′ Mac
- ATA/133 Connection

How to install a hard drive in a G4 ‘Mirrored Drive Door’/'FireWire 800′ Mac
- ATA/66 Connection

How to install a hard drive in a G5 Mac

How to install a hard drive in a Mac mini (G4)

How to install a hard drive in a G4 PowerBook ‘Titanium’ Mac (all models)

How to install a hard drive in a MacBook Pro 15″

How to install a hard drive in a Mac mini (intel)

How to install a hard drive in a MacBook 13.3″ (intel)

How to install a hard drive in a Mac Pro (intel)

Don’t Forget to Calibrate Your Mac Before You Leave Home

Joel Fugazzotto — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 13:52:36 +0000

Chris MacAskill, President of SmugMug has a great explanation of why web pages you view on your Mac may look strange and he even includes a simple fix for the problem.

WordPress 2.1 and ecto 2.4.2 Workaround

Joel Fugazzotto — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 02:06:35 +0000

Since updating to WordPress 2.1, I have been unable to refresh my posts stored in ecto 2.4.2 (a great OS X and Windows blogging client). Each time I press the refresh button, I would end up with the OS X spinning beach ball loop and eventually I would have to quit out of ecto.

Digging around in the ecto support forums, I came across the fix to the problem. It seems with the update to WordPress 2.1 they modified the xmlrpc.php file. Unfortunately, the changes do not conform to the MovableType API specs, which broke communication between ecto and the new version of WordPress.

In order to fix the problem, either wait for WordPress 2.1.1 or make the following string replacement in the xmlrpc.php file. Search and replace the following:

‘categoryId’ => $catid,

change to:

‘categoryId’ => (string) $catid,

I just tried the fix and can confirm it works. If you have not checked out ecto before, give a test run. It is a great blogging client.

Qualcomm Ceases Eudora Development for Windows and Mac

Joel Fugazzotto — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 14:38:15 +0000

For all those hardcore users of one of the most versatile email programs on the market, Eudora, Qualcomm announced today that both the Windows and the Mac versions of the products will become open source the first half of 2007. The last commercial versions of the products were released today: Eudora 7.1 for Windows and Eudora 6.2.4 for the Macintosh.

The final versions of both Eudora products are available at 60% off for $19.95.

Eudora was a great email program, but over the past few years development on the Mac side slowed to a crawl and there was very little communication from company as to when releases were planned. The writing was on the wall.

It’ll be interesting to see what happens when the source code is released next year, but in the mean time, the debate will begin as to what email program current Eudora users should migrate to.