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How To’s and other guides.

Fixing MBR Tables on iMac or MBP Triple Boot Setups

Posted on November 6, 2011July 5, 2016 by Jon Stacey

I spent several hours today struggling to fix my iMac triple boot setup with Mac OS X Lion, Windows 7 x64, and Ubuntu 11.10. rEFIt does not handle the new Apple Boot partition included in the latest release of Apple’s operating system. This article provides an example of how to fix your MBR table manually…

Apple Bluetooth Keyboard Won’t Link with iMac After Installing rEFIt

Posted on October 14, 2011October 18, 2011 by Jon Stacey

Do you have an Apple Bluetooth keyboard that refuses to link with your iMac after installing rEFIt? Here’s my short story for those with similar problems looking for a solution.

5-Minute WebDAV Server for Dropbox and iPad Pages, Numbers, and Keynote

Posted on November 23, 2010July 5, 2016 by Jon Stacey

This quick guide will get you set up with a secured simple WebDAV server using Ruby and Rack. The idea is to make your Dropbox accessible through WebDAV. This enables secure saving of documents from the iPad iWork apps back into your Dropbox account.

Mac OS X: Changing Your Short Name Without Breaking Time Machine

Posted on April 22, 2009July 5, 2016 by Jon Stacey

Today I got the urge to change my Mac OS X Leopard account short name (home directory) so that I would have less to type in Terminal. Here’s how I changed my short name without breaking my Time Machine backups.

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