Sparcitecture

Yesterday I followed the ifixit hard drive replacement guide to upgrade the drive in my Powerbook to a 5400rpm 100GB unit. I have to say their instructions were dead-simple to follow, although I was distracted while dealing with a work crisis. It only took about an hour and a half. Then I found out that I left off two rubber bumpers on the drive to isolate it from shock and had to do it again today. Time to disassemble and reassemble — 30 minutes.

Make sure you print out their handy screw guide before you start. I used double-sided tape to make sure none of the microscopic screws roamed off. Having the right tools really helps as well.

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RadTech (finally) has three new rechargeable bluetooth mice:

RadTech intros new Bluetooth Mice:
RadTech has just added three new Bluetooth mice to their line up. The BT100 and the BT300 are both designed for the mouser on the go, whilst the five button BT600 is designed to roam your desktop. The interesting thing about all three of these mice is that they have internal batteries that recharge via an included USB cable. Now that’s clever.

I checked with RadTech and their older model with a USB cable will slowly trickle charge NiMH batteries if you use those. Regular batteries could swell and leak.

[tags]mac,hardware,bluetooth[/tags]

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Type the following into a terminal when the Tivo server is not running.

defaults write com.tivo.desktop FileVideo -dict-add VideoUIEnabled -bool true

Start the server and you can share movies from the Mac to your Tivo.

[tags]mac,osx,tivo,dvr,hacks[/tags]

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