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Aug 18 2010

Dial back your iPhone 3G or 3GS to a previous iOS

As mentioned before, iOS 4.0 on the 3G iPhone is not awesome—it’s slow, over heated, quickly drains the battery and is generally unstable. And though Apple is apparently aware of the problems and is working on fixing the situation, the rest of us need to get stuff done in the meantime.

My friend, Mike Bjorndal ( @mbjorndal ) pointed me to this iHackintosh article that allowed me to put my iPhone in DFU mode, restore an older firmware and boot back out of DFU mode again. After restoring my apps and settings in iTunes, I was back in business with a faster 3G iPhone experience running an older firmware.

Keep in mind, many of the apps you may be running now might require iOS 4.x and will be inaccessible from an older version of the OS. I take no responsibility for any lost data. Backup and then backup again…and then reconsider doing this hack.

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Apr 27 2009

Handle Your Home Folder

By: Jon Gales

This is the first of a weekly series on being a power user. Since every
week you’ll see a new article on Monday, it’s smartly called “Power User
Monday”. If you have any tips, questions or comments please shoot them
my way.

Upon switching to OS X, most 9 afficianodos wanted to make X behave like 9.
That’s when the little hacks to get the trash can to be on the desktop, Apple

menu’s to come back, and the like all came into power. These things were really
popular because no one really knew how to use OS X. Times have changed. To
be a power user in OS X you gotta maximize what’s given. Here’s how to get
the best out of the Home Folder:

  1. Don’t store any personal data outside your Home folder. There’s only one
    exception… If you have a seperate hard drive or partition that certain
    types of file (media?) stay on. In this case just make sure you remember
    to back up that drive as well. If everything is in your home folder, Backup
    (from .Mac) or any other backup tool makes it easy to have all your data.
    A nice thing about X is that it even stores your prefs in the home folder
    (Library).

  2. Don’t have folders on your Desktop, have aliases that link to folders in
    your Home Folder. Folders on the Desktop are a waste of time. It may sound
    odd at first, but the advantage is obvious on a second look. Desktop’s get
    cluttered (just like your real desk
    can get stacked up and become confusing). I keep an alias of my Documents
    Folder on my Desktop, as well as another alias for whatever I’m
    working
    on (PowerUser Monday for instance). If you still aren’t convinced… When
    you backup your Documents Folder, all of your docs go with it. Otherwise,
    you’d have to look through tons of folders and sub-folders to get the same
    backup. Any organization you can add to your computing will speed up your
    work time, which is great unless
    you get paid by the hour icon smile Handle Your Home Folder .

  3. Put the Home Folder (and any common sub-folders) you use into the Dock.
    That way with one click you can access anything on your Home folder from
    any
    application. Update: Had some people asking how this helps… Click and hold, control click, or (if you have a 2 button mouse) right click on the icon in the Dock and see the folder displayed as a menu. I can’t tell you how much this speeds up things, and I see very
    few people doing it. I have the Home Folder, Documents and Desktop folders
    in my dock (as well as the Applications Folder).

The Home folder is the hub of data for OS X. Make it your friend. Check back
next Monday!

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Jul 8 2008

Second generation Drobo adds support for Firewire and improves USB 2.0

Drobo Front Med 20080708 192726 Second generation Drobo adds support for Firewire and improves USB 2.0

Today Data Robotics launched the second generation of its Drobo “storage robot”. Drobo is a drive system that offers redundant data protection, and instant expandability allowing storage capacity to grow over time as need be. New enhancements in the second generation Drobo include an upgraded core processor, two FireWire 800 ports, dramatically increased USB 2.0 performance, and newly optimized firmware. If you held off on buying the first generation Drobo because it was USB only, this new one is for you.

Features include:

  • Best in class performance
  • Redundant data protection
  • Hot expansion up to 16TB
  • Ability to take advantage of mix and match drive capacities
  • Two FireWire 800 ports (FireWire 400 compatible)
  • One USB 2.0 port

The second generation Drobo is priced at USD$499 and also comes in a 2TB version for USD$899, and a 4TB version for USD$1,299. Discount codes are also available if you know where to look.

If you’re unfamiliar with the Drobo, take a video tour with Cali Lewis.

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