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Contents 0.1 Display 0.2 Cables 0.3 Ports 0.4 Speakers 0.5 iSight HD 0.6 Gaming 0.7 Going Green 0.8 Before and After <li> <a href="#Share_this"><span class="toc_number toc_depth_1">1</span> Share this:</a> </li> With the increase in travel as of late I am finding myself tied more and more to the laptop. Despite an extensive home lab with KVM switches and dual monitors, there I would sit with my 11″ MacBook Air. Simplicity was the main reason I found. Transfer files, syncing something to a new machine, etc. just was much more hassle than I needed. I had what I will call the semi-dock with my Air in which I’d sit it on a stand and then run the myriad of wires to tie it into the home desk system. GONE! ...

This post will serve to upset both sides of the coin. Apple users wondering why I would load an inferior OS Linux users wondering why I spent all that extra money on Apple Hardware I am going to skip the religious battles over OS and platform and say that if you happen to have loaded Linux on a piece of Apple hardware this post is for you. One of the first problems you will find is that your Alt+Tab doesn’t work as expected. If you follow the instructions your Command and Alt keys will work as you had hoped with the Apple Keyboard: ...

I purchased Civ V for Mac the day it was released. LOVE…LOVE…LOVE Civilization. I had this issue after the 4GiB Download on 3 different machines and configurations that the music would play, but no graphics. Black nothingness taunted me for days. Aspyr was silent and worthless as usual and the forums sang with similar rage. Here is the fix for me on my Mac Mini and Air: Edit “Documents/Aspyr/Sid Meier’s Civilization 5/UserSettings.ini” ...

Wanted to share a quick “how does it work” about PGP WDE for Mac. http://www.pgp.com/mac/ This is the only solution that does pre-boot and true WDE for the Mac. The software is 189 for a yearly license or 239 for perpetual. The software itself is very “apple-ish” with great wizards and walk through for those not familiar with key based authentication and encryption. Some of the features are: WDE for Intel based Mac running 10.4/10.5, no SL due to the 64bit kernel from the debug trace on my Mac Pro :) ...

I compiled bin2iso from source for all the mac users out there. For some reason bin2iso is not in macports. Link below: bin2iso Unzip into a directory and chmod +x bin2iso Recommend moving to /usr/local/bin *\* Update 11/22/10 ** I get a ton of Google hits for this post. If you have macports or fink installed you can now use the bchunk program. The syntax to convert a bin to iso is as follows: ...