Tag Archives: Apple

November 1, 2011

iPhone rings twice with text message

By xiao

It was kinda off putting with my new iPhone 4S to find out that Apple makes SMS alerts ring twice (once on receive and one reminder) instead of having an LED light for alerts like in Android or Blackberry. Kind of a workaround rather than a real solution to the problem of how to find out I have alerts pending when I missed the first alert. Apple operates on a push principle and Google/RIM operates on pull.

Anyway, if I have reason to miss the first one, I most likely won’t notice the second one. It’s also misleading when it rings twice because you’d think there’s 2 messages.

To turn that functionality off, go to Settings->Notifications->Messages->Repeat Alert->Never.

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April 28, 2010

Deploy PyQt Applications on Mac OS X with PyInstaller!

By xiao

The interweb seem to incline on py2app when it come to deploying applications on mac. I’ve tried to make a single deployable .app file for my application for a long time trying to follow these instructions from ars technica. I’m not a hacker and just want to produce a deployable usable application for others to use. And it seems py2app from MacPorts wasn’t able to surmount the Snow Leopard’s 64-bit compatibility issue.

And then, I was slacking off while studying for my final and out of nowhere I found PyInstaller‘s explicit support for PyQt and its recent support for the mac. And after trying, almost everything works out without much of a kink. Credit goes to ChrisWayg who produced an amazingly complete and up-to-date set of instructions to follow. I’m merely telling how my application did using his instructions (April 2010) and hopefully doing my part to draw more attention to the excellent PyInstaller. Continue reading

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April 1, 2010

Moving Bootcamp Partition to New Drive

By xiao

I bought a new hard drive. My Windows setup already had extensive amount of software and configurations on it that I didn’t want to remake. It worked well, which was rare, so I wanted to keep it.

Winclone is an excellent free tool that lets you do just that! Unfortunately there wasn’t much confirmation on the inter-web that it has been done with Snow Leopard and Windows 7 64-bit. So I tried just that and it worked flawlessly! Continue reading

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April 19, 2009

Open Current Terminal Directory in Finder

By xiao

This bugged me today so here’s the one line solution

open .

So after applying the Perfect Visor from my previous blog post, this can be even faster to navigate to awkward Mac style directories than remembering the even more awkward Finder key combo to “Go to Folder”

open ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/

Because you can tab-complete or to go hidden folders

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March 10, 2009

New Aluminium Macbook Isn’t Rock Solid! Be Gentle!

By xiao

Unlike what the intuitive impression might reassure, the new Unibody Macbook is just as fragile as the old white Macbook as discovered rather violently today only 2 weeks after my purchase.

I have dropped my old vanilla white Macbooks non-severely a few times in the past from table height and nothing too permanent in terms of cosmetic damage. Continue reading

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