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Solving noisy iMac 27″ fans problem

Solving noisy iMac 27″ fans problem

Recently my 27″ iMac has been generating quite a bit of uncustomary fan noise – even when practically idle! After downloading and installing smcFanControl, I found out that the problem was my hard disk drive fans running at excessive speeds of 4500rpm!! If you are facing the same noise problem that I was, this is the solution: 1. Ensure that you have installed smcFanControl (freeware) 2. Launch Terminal, which is located in your Applications – Utilities folder and type this…

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How to use Dropbox in a locked-down office network and Apple iOS apps

How to use Dropbox in a locked-down office network and Apple iOS apps

MobileMe iDisk is shutting down on 30 June 2012. Following the advice of many, I moved my files over to Dropbox instead. Unfortunately 1. Apple iOS apps such as Keynote or Pages are unable to open documents stored in Dropbox 2. My office network blocks the use of Dropbox Fortunately there is a single solution to both problems! What we need is to sign up for a FREE account at SMEStorage, which lets you utilise the space you already have…

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Fixing the annoying “perl: warning: Setting locale failed” error message

Fixing the annoying “perl: warning: Setting locale failed” error message

I was getting really annoyed getting these messages while managing my Debian and Ubuntu VPSes perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset), LC_ALL = (unset), LANG = “en_US.utf8” are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale (“C”). Turns out the solution is simply to run these commands export LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 locale-gen en_US.UTF-8 apt-get install locales dpkg-reconfigure locales The export lines above…

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Running Diablo 2 on OS X Lion

Running Diablo 2 on OS X Lion

I upgraded my Macs to OS X Lion a few days ago and have been very pleased with all the new features. But when the nephews came vistiing today and wanted to play a local LAN game of Diablo 2, all we got was … Ooops! As it turns out, Blizzard had, a few days ago, posted some information regarding OS X Lion not being able to run their classic games, including Diablo 2! Diablo 2 was released for Macs…

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How to update iOS on your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad

How to update iOS on your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad

I couldn’t find anything similar on Apple’s support site, so I thought I’d do up a quick tutorial for iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad users who have no idea how to go about getting the latest and greatest software updates on their devices. 🙂 In this tutorial, we are updating an iPhone to iOS version 4.3.4 Step 1 Launch iTunes on your computer and connect your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad to your computer using the cable. Step 2 In…

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