Thunderbolt and Mini DisplayPort : differences and compatibility

As this issue os often misunderstood, I will expose the difference (and also similarities) between Thunderbolt and Mini DisplayPort.

Posté le 10/12/2012 par

Create a Fusion Drive with command line

Good news, OS X 10.8.2 tolerates Fusion Drive and it is possible to create manually a Fusion Drive.

Posté le 31/10/2012 par

Getting a new SSD on MacBook Air

Recurring issue : is it possible to change the SSD of a MacBook Air, or put one when you own a model with a hard drive? Overall, the answer is yes , if you have a good budget.

Posté le 31/10/2012 par

The iPhone 3G : outdated ?

I would not allow myself to think that Apple uses planned obsolescence , although I recently titled a big troll on the subject, but the fact is that iOS 6.0 make the iPhone 3G – released in 2008 – outdated , and in the worst way in my opinion. And everyone does not want to buy an iPhone 5S.

Posté le 22/09/2012 par

A gamepad on Mac : the PlayStation 3 SIXAXIS

You own one of the few Mac games but you do not have a joystick ? Good news , a single Playstation 3 SIXAXIS works perfectly on a Mac, without any third party software.

Posté le 12/08/2012 par

The HDMI adapter for Apple iPad

Since the release of the iPad 2, Apple offers an interesting accessory : an HDMI adapter for iOS devices . Sold 40 € , the digital AV adapter allows you to connect some iOS devices to a TV via an HDMI cable. This is quite handy while traveling to quickly show a video or photos to someone.

Posté le 09/06/2012 par

The first (and only ?) MacBook with a dedicated GPU

My black and white MacBook, with a pink apple on the back, suffered again : I implanted him a dedicated graphic card. So I own (to my knowledge) the first and only MacBook (2006 in my case) with a dedicated GPU, a Radeon HD 2600 XT.

Posté le 22/02/2012 par

An external GPU under Mac OS X : three screens on a MacBook Pro

An external graphic card on a Mac? Some dream of. Others do. An American company has indeed boxes that can contain an ExpressCard card or any PCI-Express card.

Posté le 17/02/2012 par

Acknowledgments under Mac OS X (for Outlook fans)

For Windows and Outlook fans, it is possible to activate the acknowledgments with Mail on Mac OS X. I tell you first : this is a hack. Mail does not support acknowledgments by default and responses may not reach. And unlike Outlook (randomly), it is not really possible to configure the acknowledgments : in other words, either all messages have the demand, or none.

Posté le 13/02/2012 par

Virtualizing Snow Leopard or Leopard on Lion, with VMWare Fusion 4.x

Today, I will show you a trick that will help you to virtualize easily Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) or 10.6 (Snow Leopard) with VMWare Fusion 4.11 (the latest). The MacOS X license does not allow to virtualize the customer versions of the system, even if sometimes the developers ignore it, as with version 4.1 of VMWare Fusion … But as it is perfectly legal to virtualize Mac OS X versions in its dedicated server, it is possible to override the limitation.

Posté le 14/12/2011 par