Monthly Archive: August 2009

Aug 25

Dell Mini 9 – Upgraded to 10.5.8

Wow.. I just upgraded my Dell Mini 9 to OS X 10.5.8 and I’m just completely overjoyed on how uneventful the upgrade went. Almost not worth writing a blog entry about it. I made a backup of my DellEFI v1.2 alpha 5 application, upgraded to 10.5.8 via Software update, re-installed the DellEFI, reboot. Done.  

Although it seems like a lot of people have starting doubting the usefulness of these netbooks, I can tell you I get a lot of mileage out of mine yet. It now has a permanent home in my Go-Bag.

Aug 23

iPhone 3G LCD Screen Replacement

I’m on a roll! I can’t remember the last time I’ve ordered so much stuff from eBay! This time, I got a LCD screen replacement for a cracked iPhone 3G. This replacement was CAKE! Mainly because I opted to get the right part and save me a ton of work. Details after the jump.

Aug 18

MacBook 13.3″ LCD Replacement

Ahhh… kids…. such bliss. What could be better? Kids and laptops…One of the kid’s laptop LCD screen was damage – magically, of course. The screen had two very serious cracks which rendered the device pretty much useless. However, that didn’t stop them from using it anyway.. In any event, this is a quick article to point out a couple of really great resources to perform your own upgrade.

Aug 10

Much needed feature in Outlook

Now, I’m not too much of a prude, but when you’ve been using the best of open source or Lotus Notes v8 (or even v7 or v6), Outlook 2003 seems to be a bit dated.

…Here are two reasons why rules don’t work – you need to set the rule up before you send the email and in order for the rule to work, you have to trigger on something that is common in all the emails. ugh.