Geek Tip of the Day


Geek Tip of the Day and Mac and Snow Leopard02 Sep 2009 10:47 am

For a couple of days, I couldn’t get my Bluetooth mouse to work in Windows XP with the BootCamp 3.0 drivers which was quite frustrating since I am dependent on the mouse when running my Windows applications on MacBook Pro. I searched all over Google and found the solution below. However, before starting the process stated below, I uninstalled the Bluetooth device in Device Manager along with the HID Compliant Mouse to get this solution to work.

Quote http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2001613&tstart=0

1 – Load the ‘Add a device’ dialog for bluetooth

2 – Wait until your device is listed and just select it (highlight only)

3 – Right-click (or press ‘Alt+Enter’) the highlighted item and select ‘Properties’

4 – Go to the ‘Services’ tab and wait until it lists a ‘Drivers’ check box

5 – Place a check mark in the box and click ‘Apply’

6 – Click on the notification balloon that pops up on the right end of the taskbar to watch the progress of installation (it will probably say something like ‘Windows Update..’

7 – When done, your device should disappear from the list and should now have functionality (although from my experience not exactly perfectly consistent pairing).

This works on my MacBook Pro (late 2008 unibody)

Daily Commentary and Geek Tip of the Day13 Mar 2009 05:58 pm

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Daily Commentary and Gadgets and Geek Tip of the Day and Sony Vaio P04 Mar 2009 10:32 pm

The problem that has plaugued this device since launch has been solved by yours truly! I said in the previous post that the video stuttering on Youtube, Xvid, and Divx movies were unbearable but I stumbled onto a solution without having to downgrade to XP. This is exactly what I did to geteverything to work:

  1. Uninstall all the bloatware (Office 2007 trial, etc…)
  2. Run Windows Update
  3. Restart Vaio
  4. Defragment Hard Drive
  5. Start-> Search Box type MSCONFIG
  6. Click the Startup tab and uncheck the following: Adobe Acrobat, ISBUTLITY, Smart Wi Helper, Unattended000001, Vaio Media Plus, and AutolaunchWLASU
  7. Restart Vaio

Give it a try and your videos should be working fine now! Also, I’m using the Combined Community Codec Pack with Windows Media Player Clasic to play my Dixv and Xvid files, but Youtube on Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 3 work just fine!

Daily Commentary and Geek Tip of the Day and Mac05 Jan 2009 10:37 pm

I posted a question a few days ago on mac-forums asking how to view icon thumbnails in the mac osx like how windows xp and vista does it. it was getting annoying having to open the file to see what the photo was. The solution was very simple and I got a very prompt respond on that forum:

“Have a Finder window in icon view. Select the menu item View/Show View Options. Activate “Show icon preview”. You can set this for an individual folder window or all windows.” – ron4mac

Thanks Ron!