iPhoto : special album for the iPhone 4 and the 4S

A little trick to recover your photos on the iPhone 4 and to sort them depending on the camera used in iPhoto, with the Smart Albums. It’s pretty simple: ask iPhoto to recover pictures from an iPhone 4 (normally, it will propose it to you if there is at least one photo taken with the iPhone 4) and then sort them by aperture : above 2.6, it is the pictures taken with the back camera, below 2.6, they are taken with the front camera.

Posté le 26/11/2011 par

Connecting a CRT TV to a Mac : the compatibility

Sometimes you need to connect a Mac to an outdated equipment, such as a CRT TV, a projector, or a pico projector. And these seldom manage digital interfaces: analogical interfaces are required.

Posté le 19/11/2011 par

Problem with iMessage ? There is a solution

iMessage, the Apple BBM sometimes encounters a few small problems. Indeed, it happens that the number associated to iMessage, even when the SIM card is changed, remains in memory. For example, you have a new iPhone but your SIM card (more exactly its number) is still linked to the previous iPhone : the new owner may receive your iMessage.

Posté le 18/11/2011 par

The Apple Djinn, an unknown product

There was a time … A time when the Internet did not exist. A time when modems could not even reach 2400 bauds …The time of the Apple Djinn. This external modem, proposed in partnership with France Telecom (a French operator), worked at 2400 bits per second and provided access to the Minitel, a French telecommunication system that prefigured the Internet.

Posté le 03/11/2011 par

The Apple PowerBop

In the ’90s, France Telecom (the main operator in France) proposed a mobile telephony offer based on the Bi-Bop technology. Technically, it was essentially a kind of portable phone box : the phone was to be used close to a terminal (about 300 m) and the cell change was not supported.

Posté le 31/10/2011 par

How to read HFS+ on Windows 7, without Boot Camp

I was asked the question from time to time : how to read a HFS+ formatted disk on Windows. The basic answer is quite simple: just by installing Boot Camp. Indeed, Apple provides a pilot to read the HFS+ for Snow Leopard.

Posté le 02/09/2011 par

Use the Apple external SuperDrive on (almost) any Mac

An interesting hack today, allowing you to use the Apple external optimal drive (SuperDrive) on (almost) any Mac.

Posté le 01/09/2011 par

Turning a Wi-Fi card into AirPort Extreme card

In the previous article, I explained how to install a card purchased on eBay to retrieve an Airdrop compatibility on MacBook. The problem is that the card is not recognized as an Apple card. But it is actually possible to transform a Broadcom Wi-Fi card in AirPort Extreme, thanks to Linux. It is a bit complicated to achieve if you do not really know Linux ; but if command lines are not an issue to you, it is pretty feasible. I will now show you how to flash a Broadcom card (a BCM4322 is used here to hack Airdrop).

Posté le 30/08/2011 par

Install an AirDrop Card into a white 2006 MacBook

Let’s take a white 2006 MacBook. Even if it has a Wi-Fi 802.11n, it offers neither Airdrop (new feature in Lion) nor Wake On Demand via Wi-Fi (to wake up the Mac via Wi-Fi). What about changing the card ?

Posté le 17/08/2011 par

Apple removes the Smart Card support in OS X Lion

In OS X Lion, Apple has removed an interesting feature: the Smart Card support. With Mac OS X (since Tiger), it was possible to authenticate (for example) with a Smart Card, as the U.S. military CAC card or with a Belgian electronic ID card (in particular). But with OS X Lion, the support is deprecated so no longer supported. And suddenly, the necessary files are no longer available.

Posté le 06/08/2011 par