Xcode Compile/Neon/Subversion

On a long path to get subversion working in Eclipse on OS X. Command line SVN is not working because the command line client is too old. Found great instructions on this here.  Thanks Jason McCreary for this, great instructions. Neon fails, seems to be because I’m missing Xcode command line tools.  “No acceptable C […]

Rebooting iOS (Phone)

My phone just stopped (iPhone 4S).  It was switched recently from my personal carrier account to my corporate carrier account.  So, when it stopped working I contacted the company help desk. Nature of problem: the buttons don’t turn on the phone.  Holding down the power button does not bring up the restart slider.  Plugging in […]

RSS Reader – Bloglines

A lot of news lately about Google disconnecting their “Reader” product, an RSS newsfeed aggregator.  In the wake of this, a lot of unhappy customers, and a lot of discussion about how the reason was probably because no one uses RSS anymore. I use it daily; I use Bloglines as an RSS aggregator.  Fast Company […]

Checklist for Changing Email Accounts

Here’s mine: Make sure the new Email is set up; test that you can send and receive from it. Make a list of all the places and people that you can to make sure can find the new address: Walk your address book and send each person a message from the new account letting them […]

Apple Air Drop

The machines have been on a scattered assortment of 10.x OS’s, some because of hardware limitations, some because its a lot of trouble to upgrade when you’re busy with other things.  But, the older machines are starting to be used seldom, and the newer machines are 10.7 or later now.  Transferring files with the USB […]

Monitoring Network Traffic

This may apply to OS X only, but maybe Unix/Linux as well. My DSL service is pretty low end by today’s standards, around 786K bandwidth compared to the bazillion G per second of FIOS or whatever.  It’s always been fine, you only really notice its low end when downloading something really big like streaming HD […]

My Apple Life

Here’s the inventory: 20 inch iMac G5 (2005) 30G iPod (2006) 15 inch Mac Book Pro (2011), employer supplied iPhone 4S (2011) 21 inch iMac (2012) 11 inch Mac Book Air (2012) I don’t think we intended to collect all this stuff.  The original G5 purchase was unusual after a series of home-builts and a […]

Moshi FireWire 800 to 400 Adapter

In the move from the old Mac Book Pro to the new Mac Book Pro, the Firewire 400 port was eliminated as part of the normal technology progress of Apple products.  This creates the problem of having two Firewire 400 external hard drives I use for music files that I can’t plug into the new […]