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A Complete List of Apple’s Recalls

Saturday, March 14th, 2009

I’ve just compiled a list of all the known Apple recalls (aka Exchange & Repair Programs). It includes current and expired recalls (so people can know if there is a known problem with their system even if Apple won’t cover it anymore), how to identify problem models, and links directly to Apple’s site for each specific recall.

This information should be helpful for Mac techs (like myself) and fix-it-yourself power users, plus anyone else hoping to troubleshoot their broken Mac.

The list is in a wide (spreadsheet) format, so it will open in a new window.

See the complete list of Apple Recalls

Download the excel version

* Please notify me of any errors or missing recalls.

Popularity: 6% [?]

Tags: apple, apple recall, apple recalls, apple repair and exchange program, exchange, exchange program, mac, mac exchange, mac recall, recall, recall list, rep, repair, repair & exchange, return
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Install 2 Drives in Your Mac Mini For 1TB Storage!

Sunday, March 8th, 2009

Man I love ifixit.com. They’ve got a great looking (and easy to navigate) site for buying Mac parts along with dozens of custom made instruction manuals for many Mac computers.

But today they’ve stepped it up — showing us how to hack the Mini (by removing the optical drive) in order to fit a second hard drive, allowing up to 1TB of storage (with 2×500gb sata drives).

Photo from ifixit.com Mac Mini 1TB Installation Guide

It involves a little soldiering, but looks pretty easy if you know what you’re doing: take a look at ifixit’s Mac Mini 1TB Installation Guide and upgrade kit ($249 for everything you need, minus soldiering tools).

Popularity: 6% [?]

Tags: mac mini, mac mini hack, mini 1tb, mini hack, mini hard drive, mini hard drive upgrade, upgrade mac mini
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Fusion + XP + uTorrent = Super Fast & Reliable Mac Torrent Downloads

Friday, October 10th, 2008

As previously mentioned, Transmission works for downloading torrents on your Mac. But lately, at least for me, it’s been slow and unreliable — so I’ve set out to find a new solution.

While browsing forums for ideas, I found a post mentioning uTorrent. A few hours later, I was downloading torrents VERY quickly and reliably using a streamlined process: downloaded torrent file, torrent automatically opens in uTorrent (in Fusion/XP), torrent downloads very quickly, once completed the file is moved back to my Mac.

Keep reading for instructions on setting up this streamlined process…
A complete guide for setting up Fusion, XP, and uTorrent to give you fast and reliable torrent downloads on your Mac

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Tags: fast torrent downloads, fusion, mac bittorrent, mac bittorrent tutorial, mac torrent, mac torrent tutorial, mac tutorial torrents, mac utorrent, mac xp fusion torrent, torrent, utorrent mac, vmware fusion
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How to fix the SSL “Verify Certificate” issue in Leopard Mail

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

Does this screen look familiar?

If you’re constantly having to click “Always trust XXX when connecting to XXX” when using Mail with SSL on, your solution may be a few clicks away.

In the above image, notice that it says “Always trust “smtp.gmail.com” when connecting to “imap.gmail.com”.” The problem here is that Leopard won’t ever trust a certificate (even after clicking the check box) when the server you entered in your account details doesn’t match the server name the certificate is using.

In this case, imap.gmail.com should be changed to smtp.gmail.com to reflect the name of the server on the certificate and the problem goes away like magic!

Here’s another slightly more complicated example…
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Tags: certificate, gmail, gmail imap, gmail ssl, keychain, leopard mail, Mail, mail can't verify the identity of, smtp, ssl, the certificate for this server is invalid, verify certificate
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Automatically Resume File Transfers After Closing LCD Display

Monday, July 28th, 2008

I think this may be a new Leopard (10.5) feature, but perhaps I just never noticed it: if you close your LCD display (sleep your computer) during a file transfer, the transfer will resume after the machine is woken up.

For example, say you’re transferring a 5GB file from your Macbook to your Mac Pro on the same network. Halfway through the file transfer, you accidently shut your LCD display and the computer goes to sleep.

Do you have to start the transfer over? No! Open the LCD display and wake up your computer — it will automatically rejoin your network and immediately resume the file transfer from where it was stopped!

The only caveat here is if your computer can’t rejoin your network. If, after shutting your display, you move to another network or loose your WiFi signal, the transfer will give up and produce an error about 10 seconds after waking up.

Popularity: 4% [?]

Tags: 10.5, file transfer, lcd display, leopard, mac book, macbook, macbook pro, resume
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