Posts Tagged ‘hardware’

iMac 24″ hard drive replacement

Sunday, April 12th, 2009

Recently my fiancee‘s iMac 24″ was having some issues.  She had come back to the computer to find it frozen up, having to force-reboot.  When the machine rebooted, it showed the feared “flashing question mark” icon, indicating the system could not find a usable/bootable OS on the machine.  Inevitably, we ended up having to replace the drive.

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My new old MacBook

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

So, due to some software development projects I’m starting (which you’ll be hearing more about soon), I’ve been needing a more modern Mac to work on.  Fortunately, a friend of mine, Dan Udey, just upgraded to a newer machine, so I figured he may be willing to sell his “old” 1.83ghz MacBook. (more…)

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eMate 300 battery cell replacement

Monday, February 16th, 2009
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no AC power needed :)

Yes, another post about the eMate 300! I successfully replaced the rechargeable battery cells in the battery pack over the weekend. I actually had to do it twice, as the first time I didn’t do a decent enough job of ensuring all points of contact were contacting enough.

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Getting the eMate 300 online – wirelessly

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

Alright, it’s online! After a multiple-day process, my eMate 300 is now successfully online, and wirelessly to boot!

NCU software for Mac OS

It’s actually a fairly straightforward process to get the eMate 300 online.

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