Enable Auto Startup After Power Failure For Apple Mac Mini

I recently came across a very useful tidbit after receiving several inquires asking how to configure an Apple Mac Mini to automatically startup after a power failure. This is extremely useful for situations where power is eventually restored and you are not physically around to press the power button. Automatically starting up after a power failure is not a new feature of the Mac Mini and it actually exists on most modern day systems and can...

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How to make an OS X Lion USB thumb drive

Here are three different ways to put Lion on a USB thumb drive. If you buy and install Lion from the App Store  it downloads all 3Gigabytes from the App Store, installs Lion, then deletes the installer!  So when you go to install it on another machine it needs another 3Gigabyte download! Here’s how to make a re-usable installer.Option 1: Put a full bootable Lion installation on the USB Drive with a recovery partition.What you need:...

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How to Air Print to ANY printer from your iPod, iPad or iPhone

Apple has introduced a ‘print’ button onto iPads, iPhones and iPods to allow you to print directly to a printer from your iOS device. Unfortunately  you need a special AirPrint enabled printer. Thankfully there is a free application called ‘AirPrint Activator’ that allows you to print to any printer, here’s where to get it and how to use it.AIRPRINTOn your iPhone at the bottom of some apps is a ‘share’ button. If you click this button you...

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How to create a disk image of a DVD or CD using the terminal

This is a little bit advanced, but useful.1. Insert the DVD/CD into your drive.2. Run the TERMINAL application (In your Appplications Utilities Folder)You will get a little window with a prompt something this: Macintosh:~ wayne$3.Type the following and then hit return:drutil statusIt will give you some info like this:Vendor Product RevSONY DVD RW DW-U21A AADBType: DVD-R Name: /dev/disk2Cur Write: 4x DVD Sessions: 1Max Write: 4x DVD Tracks: 1This is information about your DVD/CD drive and the important thing to notice is the name, it will be /dev/disk1...

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How to connect your iPhone or iPod to your home stereo.

To connect your iPhone, iPad or iPod to your home stereo you just need a 3.5mm to RCA cable like this cable here. The RCA cable plugs into the rear of your stereo and the 3.5mm plugs into your iPhone headphone jack.When plugging into the back of the Stereo Amplifier, you can use almost whatever inout you want: CD-INPUT, TAPE-IN, TV-IN, DVD-IN or the AUX-IN,  but do not use the PHONO-IN as it is designed specifically for a record player...

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iPhone Error 3194 and Solution

If you have been using iOS 4 on iPhone and if you have downgraded iOS4 to 3.1.3 then you might have encountered this Error 3194. This error is associated with firmware.This error occurs when you have an unsigned firmware. This is because, Apple now signs the firmware and if your firmware has no authenticity then you are bound to get this error. However, getting back on the signed firmware might not solve this error.So, how do you fix this error?...

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How To Edit Your Hosts File : Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6)

In Snow Leopard, accessing the hosts file is very similar to Ubuntu. Begin in terminal and use your favorite editor, even is you wish to call a GUI text editor, it is easier to do so from terminal.The file will look a bit more like Windows, only with a little less explanation. Again we are going to redirect Facebook.This time it seems that 0.0.0.0 is a loopback and will direct you to the computers Apache test page....

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