Posts Tagged ‘Mac’
Posted by John Witt in Featured, Technology, Tutorials Wednesday, 2 September 2009 20:34 3 Comments
I decided to add a second hard drive to my 17” Unibody MacBook Pro. To do this I purchased an OptiBay adapter from MCE Technologies. This adapter replaces the built DVD drive in the MacBook Pro. I rarely use it so it is no big loss to remove it. In doing so I gain another 500GB of storage bringing my total storage to 1TB. MCE Technologies also sells an enclosure which allows the DVD drive you removed to be used as external USB drive. I happened to purchase the OptiBay while they were giving away this enclosure for free with purchase. The installation was pretty straight forward and simple. I mistakenly removed a connector from the system-board which I didn’t have too. It made my heart race a little since it was a delicate connector and I was having difficulty reconnecting it. That particular connector is what connects to the display so I was worried i just hosed the laptop, luckily I didn’t. My only gripe was that it uses two less screws to connect to the chassis then the original DVD drive did. They user the cover to help hold everything together and keep things from moving. Also one less screw could be used to affix the Bluetooth antenna to the OptiBay adapter instead of the two that was originally used to attach to the DVD drive. The attached video is of me installing the OptiBay.
Posted by John Witt in Tutorials Saturday, 2 August 2008 04:25 No Comments
While I in the middle of designing my new Mac related website, the need came up to create a video tutorial. I created a video tutorial that teaches you how to configure Internet Sharing on a MacBook or MacBook Pro. Since it is mac related it will be the first video tutorial to go up when the site is done.
BTW.. macbeacon.com won!
Posted by John Witt in Etcetera Friday, 25 July 2008 19:52 No Comments
I am in the beginning stages of designing a new website. The site will be Mac related. It will be focusing on news, reviews and video tutorials for beginners. It will also provide more advance tutorial as time passes and the end user’s skill increase. I will update everyone once I am further along and supply the new domain name associated with it.
Posted by John Witt in Etcetera, Technology Wednesday, 26 March 2008 16:44 No Comments
It is official I have completely transitioned myself away from Microsoft (Personally). I think Vista was the final nail in the coffin for me. Back in September before my Vegas trip I purchased a Mac Book Pro, under the assumption I would run both OSX and Windows on the notebook. I found myself more and more using the OSX side until I no longer had the need to run Windows. Believe it or not, everything I needed to do could be done under OSX. As far as my client’s servers, I could manage them all remotely with the Mac version of Remote Desktop. This past weekend I replaced my workstation with a Mac Pro. The only thing left was my Windows server and my wife’s workstation. Moving away from my Windows servers that were handling my network file sharing (running raid for data protection) as well as Exchange and Blackberry services would be the hardest, so I thought. I wound up moving my domains to Google Apps for email and used T-Mobile’s services to connect via IMAP and forward my email to my Blackberry. I am purchasing a Drobo to handle my network file sharing as it runs it’s own version of raid for data protection.
Posted by John Witt in Etcetera, Technology Friday, 8 February 2008 12:47 No Comments
Setting up a number of MacBook Airs that arrived today. After holding one of these I can say it is way cooler than any commercial can display. Well off I go to load on the VPN software needed to connect these to the corporate LAN and hand them out.