Quicken Essentials on a Macbook Nano
Applications, Mac March 9th, 2010 by Shai Perednik
UPDATE: See below for the fix.
I just purchased the new Quicken Essentials for mac to run on my MSI Wind Macbook Nano only to find out that the icon is marked with an strikeout.
When you double click the icon your told
“You cannot use this version of the application Quicken Essentials.app with this version of Mac OS X.
The Quicken Essentials requirements say Leopard or Snow Leopard. So is it possible Intuit has actually hard coded “Atom=False” to prevent Atom users from running the app?
FIX
I’ve found the issue and the fix.The minimum requirements are 10.5.8 and I’m running to 10.5.7. So here’s the fix:
- Right click Quicken Essentials.app
- Click “Show Package Contents”
- Open the “Contents” folder
- Open the info.plist
- Look for “Minimum system version”
- It will have a value of “10.5.8″. Change that to “10.5.7″.
That’s it. The icon still has the slash across it, but it opens and works fine on my 10.5.7 Macbook Wind. You could probably change it to 1o.5.6 or whatever, but I havn’t tested that.
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Tags: application, atom, Essentials, Hackintosh, intuit, Leopard, Mac OS, macbook, MSI, nano, netbook, quicken
Fully Utilizing Your X-Core CPU
Uncategorized March 2nd, 2010 by Shai Perednik
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Fully Utilizing Your X-Core CPU
Almost all systems sold nowadays have at least a dual-core CPU, even
triple- or quad-cores are getting cheaper and getting standard in the
near future. But how to utilize your shiny x-core to it’s full
potential, with applications that are only utilizing one core ? With
Linux, which has strong multitasking capabilities as all unixoid
operating systems, there is an easy possibility to parallelize tasks
which are normally only using one core of an x-core CPU.
The office – Suck it
Uncategorized February 10th, 2010 by Shai Perednik
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Uncategorized February 5th, 2010 by Shai Perednik
40 Valuable Tools and Resources For Web Designers
Uncategorized January 19th, 2010 by Shai Perednik
Web development can be tricky and time-consuming. To be more effective and productive, we, designers and developers, can integrate useful tools in our daily routine. Also, handy resources can be very valuable as they can help us enhance communication with clients and other developers as well as improve the quality of our work. We are permanently looking for new tools, techniques, resources and services that can improve your workflow and increase your productivity.
In this post we present a couple of extremely useful and valuable tools and resources that we found over the last months. Please make sure to follow us on Twitter for a stream of useful resources, tools and design-related articles.
Getting Inspired: Interesting Redesign Projects
Boarding Pass / Fail
A boarding pass redesign project by Tyler Thompson, the Creative Director at Squarespace. How would you design a boarding pass? The result is very impressive.
You’re killing me, Zappos
Andrew Wilkinson’s attempt to redesign Zappos.
Dollar ReDe$ign Project
An attempt to rebrand the US Dollar, rebuild financial confidence and revive our failing economy. Created by Richard Smith.
Useful Front-End and Back-End Tools
ie-css3.js
CSS3 pseudo selector emulation for Internet Explorer 5-8. ie-css3.js allows Internet Explorer to identify CSS3 pseudo selectors and render any style rules defined with them. Simply include the script in your pages and start using these selectors in your style sheets — they’ll work in IE. An alternative is Offspring.js.
CorMVC
CorMVC is a jQuery-powered Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework that can aide in the development of single-page, web-based applications. CorMVC stands for client-only-required model-view-controller and is designed to be lowest possible entry point to learning about single-page application architecture. It does not presuppose any server-side technologies, or a web server of any kind, and requires no more than a web browser to get up and running.
Typograph
A typographic tool that generates CSS for beautiful web typography, according to traditional scale and vertical rhythm.
Venkman JavaScript Debugger project page
Venkman is the code name for Mozilla’s JavaScript Debugger. Venkman aims to provide a powerful JavaScript debugging environment for Gecko-based browsers namely Firefox 3.x, the Netscape 7.x series of browsers, Netscape 9.x series, Mozilla Seamonkey 1.x and Mozilla Seamonkey 2.x. It does not include Gecko-based browsers such as K-Meleon 1.x, Galeon 2.x and Netscape 8.x. The debugger is available as an add-on package in XPI format. Venkman JavaScript Debugger has been provided as part of the Mozilla install distribution since October 3rd 2001.
Reviews & Opinions to Look For
Uncategorized January 13th, 2010 by Shai Perednik
Having just got back from CES 2010 I’m exhausted and need to catch up at work. In the mean time I’ll be taking some products I’ve received @ CES 2010 through their paces. Here’s a quick list of products that I have and will have a piece coming shortly:
AblePlanet Prototype Headphones: Can’t say much aside from they are the successor to the white sound isolation headphones.
OrbitSound T3 Portable Speaker
Tunebug Vibe
IvySkin Quattro T2
MiPlug T
BandShell
Yurtopia
KonoAudio iPopperz
Pineapple Rumble KW
Some manufactures didn’t have press demo’s available at the show and said they would send me a unit after. I’m only going to list the ones I’m really looking forward to and that really have a promising future in the consumer and military market.
FrameWizard from FaceCake
DataJack
Wink Glasses
Kidos
i2i Stream XR from Aerielle
Casio EX-G1
AudioEngine w1
Album2
5barz
Some interesting things to come. Check back shortly for more info. And remember, these won’t be just reviews or tech specs but rather also possible use cases and how these products fit into personal military usage and lifestyle.
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CES, CES 2010 January 7th, 2010 by Shai Perednik
LightTouch from Light Blue Optics
CES, CES 2010 January 7th, 2010 by Shai Perednik
We’ve seen this concept before in the form of a red laser projected image of a keyboard. What makes the LightTouch different is the full color image thats projected.
Light Blue Optics demoed various usage cases, but when questioned they have not even considered military usage.
So lets dare to imagine and think of a possible use case for the LightTouch on the battlefield.
First we’ll explore a possible current scenario. A squadron leaders calls a halt to his unit calling for a map or recon from the unmanned drone he’s sent in. A soldier will run up with either a paper map or an LCD. We can assume the LCD is heavy and very bulky and presume that the map is made of a paper or plastic that’s seen its share of abuse. So what’s the alternative?
Let’s explore the same scenario assuming the squadron leader was equipt with a LightTouch device. He no longer needs to call for anyone, he simply kneels down, clears the ground of small debris and turns on his LightTouch. He now has the ability to quiqly pull up his map or recon video, make his decisions and move on.
With a multi-touch LightTouch the squadron leader can interact with the map, pinch to zoom, pan the image. Now imagine the recon video where he can halt the drone at a safe location zoom in and pan beyond the optic capabilities built into the drone. He can even reposition and control the drone from the same screen.
This idea is not that far fetched as the reference design already has a 2hr battery, is compact, and can handle uneven surfaces.
Related posts:Tags: battlefield, CES, military, Photo, video
Applications for 3D TV in Military usage
CES, CES 2010 January 7th, 2010 by Shai Perednik
Disclaimer: This is a pure opinion piece.
Looking back at all the announcements from yesterday’s press conferences makes one think of what seems to be the theme: 3D TV.
This is an interesting idea that will have to wait to see if the consumers adobt. Only time will tell. But, looking at the military and government sectors one can only imagine the possibilities.
the first use that comes to mind is on sea vessels and aircraft where space is often limited to small screens. Imagine the tactical officer flipping down his 3D display, throwing on his glasses as having a real life view of the battlefield or tactical maps.
Panasonic showed of there all in one 3D camera, so imagine in this case a soldier wearing the camera on the battlefield and beaming the signal back to the mothership. Yes, this may be a bit far fetched and the camera probably needs to be smaller to make this a reality.
Another view of the 3DTV is it’s actual intended use, for home entertainment. But take this idea and apply to the military. On sea vessels one can often wander the ship and see crowds around the TV. Weather their watching the home team game or news, anything from outside is a huge morale boost. So consider how much more of a boost they’ll get when there watching there home team in full 3D and feeling like they’re actually at the game again. Even that 10 second overview shot of the city would bring a huge boost as it would give them a greater sense of home.
So in closing, one can speculate forever, but only time will tell the direction this technology goes.
Related posts:Tags: 3d, battlefield, CES, military
