fosk.it! 2.0

The so called tethering is when you use your cell phone signal as a method of connecting your laptop to the internet.

In the case of the iPhone we will be using EDGE to get online. Its not fast but it will do the job.

On your iPhone:

1) From Installer.app install the program called Tinyproxy;

2) Navigate to the settings menu then to the wifi menu. From here select your newly created network. Then press that little blue arrow to the right of the network name;

3) Change the IP Address to Manually and enter “192.168.1.1″ in the IP field and “255.255.255.0″ in the subnet field. Leave everything else blank.

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The iPhone field mode shows a lot of information. In fact, it is more comprehensive than many other phone field modes, allowing you to see the details of the individual cell towers and a lot of detail about the cell phone network. For a phone that tries to hide much of the technical details of how it works, that’s a litte surprising. To access it, dial *3001#12345#*. If you are already in a call, just hit “add call”, enter the number above and hit call; the phone will go into test mode, but keep your call connected.

Main Screen

The first screen that you see is the main menu for the field mode. This presents you with the following choices: Network Information, Cell Information, GPRS Information, PDP information, Call Information and Versions. Let’s look at each of these in turn.

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I was searching for a graphic card to replace my 2yo 7600GT, 256MB. I’m definitely not on videogames, but I’d like some decent 3D capabilities and over all a MPEG4 AVC hardware decoding. And, most important point, it *MUST* be fanless! I hate that buzzing noise.

There are several “0dB” cards on the maket, built from both nVidia and ATi. From what I understood the latter ones, from series HD2×00 and HD3×00, have an onboard audio decoder that can directly be used as an audio output. That is nice because I plan to use as a second monitor a 32″ LCD TV linked via DVI (with a DVI–>HDMI cable). So that DVI/HDMI cable can be used also to transmit the “sound” avoiding me to use another 3,5″ jack only for this. Then I read some benchmark comparison from an HD3400 and a nVidia 8600GT… uhm better to stay with nVidia!

Even if the nVidia counterpart has not this onboard sound decoder, some card manufacturers that don’t use the reference nVidia PCB design had implemented an S/PDIF pass-through connector. Bacause, trust me, the audio signal that can be transmitted on a HDMI cable is the good ol’ stereo S/PDIF! (yes left/right only, no 5.1 dolby, LOL).

So I was searching for fanless, nVidia and with S/PDIF pass-through. The GPU for my budget was a 8600GT 512MB class.

My first, unlucky bought was a MSI NX8600GT-TD512EZ/D2.

This card is clocked at stock 540Mhz, with 512MB of cheaper 800MHz DDR2 memory (on a 128 bit interface). It’s a nice card with good temperatures due to his big heatsink, copper based.

But it simply won’t fit on my Coolermaster Cavalier 2 HTPC case, with these two heatpipes being too high in the case profile.

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A pretty handy tip I picked up from the Mac OS X Hints useful if you tend to open multiple Finder windows for organising/moving folder/files on the Mac OS X. This script helps to reduce the time after you open a new instance of Finder (ctrl + N) and navigate through endless sub-directories to reach the folder you want.

In more details, this Applescript gets the location of the front-most Finder window and opens a second instance of Finder with the same path and view. If there is no Finder windows at the present when this script is executed, it launches a new Finder window at the system root directory (or any other pre-defined target path).

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A quick way of changing the default file format for Grab.app (or “Command + Shift + 4″ short-cut) from .tiff to other formats such as .pdf, .png, or .psd etc…
Choose any of the following line and paste it in your Terminal window and press the return key, that’s it.

defaults write com.apple.screencapture type png
defaults write com.apple.screencapture type pdf
defaults write com.apple.screencapture type jpg
defaults write com.apple.screencapture type tif
defaults write com.apple.screencapture type psd

By the way, here is a list of short-cuts for making a screenshot quickly:

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When I bought the macbook I immediately replaced the stock 160GB, 5400rpm hard disk with the faster 7200rpm in production nowadays: her majesty Hitachi 7k200 (HTS722020K9SA00).

Being this HDD quite expensive (due to the shortage in production) how much it improves seek/read time? I can confirm that power consumption and noise are the same as the stock unit, and that is wise to buy the 100 or 200GB models with an higher storage density per disk face in comparisono of the 160 GB unit.

Here there are some benchmark between a 200GB 7200rpm Hitachi 7k200 running a 3,1 macbook (2.2GHz Merom based, 4GB ram) and the stock 160GB 5400rpm Fujitsu on a 4,1 macbook (2.4GHz Penryn, 4GB ram). So sorry but no HFS+ bench, I can’t find any decent benchmark app for OS X: Xbench is extremely old, and Geekbench 64 told me absolutely random crap marks on the new Penryn, reporting a numerical result more or less the half in comparison of the “old” Merom one!?!

FAT32

5400rpm

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No dai sul serio, c’era veramente bisogno di mettere su la bellezza di quattro blog in italiano (imbottiti di pubblicità all’inversosimile) con l’unico scopo di ricopiare le stesse identiche minchiate da Mac Rumors e Apple Insider?

Eh?