Tuesday, April 22, 2014

How to make a bootable Mavericks install drive (usb, disk on key)

The text below is "copy paste" from liondiskmaker site. version 3 supports the Mavericks installer

Link: http://liondiskmaker.com/ 

DiskMaker X (formerly Lion DiskMaker) is an application built with AppleScript that you can use with Mac OS X 10.6, 10.7, OS X 10.8 and 10.9 to build a bootable drive from Mac OS X Lion, OS X Mountain Lion Installation or OS X Mavericks Installer program. As soon as you launch the application, it tries to find the OS X Install program with Spotlight. Then, it proposes to build a bootable install disk and make it look as nice as possible. It’s the easiest way to build an OS X Installer in a few clicks !


iMac fan working at full speed ( making noise ) after replacing HDD by SSD


Problem: After replacing the hard disk on my iMac to SSD, the fan/s started to work at full speed and make noise.

Reason:  Replacing the original hard disk breaks the system’s temperature monitoring and the fans will stat to work on full speed.


Solution for Mac OS X:
Install the free software "SSD Fan Control", Find the noisy fan and control it in ‘Manual’ or ‘SMART’ mode.
Don't forget to donate!!!

Link:
http://exirion.net/ssdfanctrl/







Solution for Windows 8 on BOOT CAMP partition: 
Install the free software "Macs Fan Control", Find the noisy fan and control it in ‘Manual’ or ‘SMART’ mode.
Don't forget to donate!!!
Link:
http://www.crystalidea.com/macs-fan-control



linux bulk prefix filenames

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