http://www.enik.ch Home of Niklaus Hirt Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:24:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Popular Science just opened their archives for free.A must to check out. Try “1958″ for example scroll through one edition and rejoice… Via Popular Science http://www.enik.ch/2010/03/search-the-popular-science-archives-2/ This is hilarious... via macfidelity.de http://www.enik.ch/2010/01/the-new-ipad-nano/ I just watched Steve's keynote about the iPad and I am happy to announce that this is the first Apple gadget that does not trigger the "must have" effect. Seeing the keynote I really don't get the excitment about this thing: It's yet another device to carry around, too big to fit ... http://www.enik.ch/2010/01/finally-one-apple-gadget-i-dont-have-to-buy/ Finally a site has come up with comprehensive benchmarks for the most important players in the mobile processor market. It was getting confusing when the new Pinetrail processors were slower than the N270/N280, only for longer battery life... Go to the YugaTech website for more information.... http://www.enik.ch/2010/01/ratings-for-mobile-cpus/ Our partner site technow.cc just published a video tutorial giving you the basics for creating a custom DSDT file that matches your configuration (eee PC model, amount of RAM and BIOS version). Read more here http://www.enik.ch/2009/10/learn-how-to-create-your-own-dsdt/ I just published a post on our brand new partner site technow.cc. It is a two part video tutorial on how to install OSX Snow Leopard on the Asus eee 1000HE (should work with the other models as well). http://www.enik.ch/2009/10/osx-10-6-1-snowleopard-on-the-eee-1000he/ Friday afternoon just before heading home from work, streaming radio playing on my MacBook Pro while working on my work PC... Suddenly no more sound... Lost the WIFI connection. No panic, just reconnect, but to my big surprise there are no more hotspots detected (there are more than 10 in ... http://www.enik.ch/2009/08/apple-does-care-with-a-happy-ending/ Finally the veil of silence has been lifted on the beta phase of the newest upcoming product from Propellerheads. It's simply called Record and it helps you to do just that - record your music as easily as possible. It inherits the basic "modus operandi" we know from Reason (that I ... http://www.enik.ch/2009/07/record-the-new-genius-application-from-propellerheads/ Update: You can find a video tutorials on how to manipulate DSDT files on our new partner site technow.cc. As a lot of my readers have observed there are some problems when using certain dsdt.aml files with certain RAM configurations. It seems that when you export/generate dsdt.aml files from the real existing BIOS, ... http://www.enik.ch/2009/06/eee-1000he-dsdt-files-and-the-memory-problem/ So I finally got my first Mac (a MacBookPro 13") and I have to say that I like it a lot (you'll be able to read about that in a post in the near future). Coming from a Windows background and still working on XP at work there is one major ... http://www.enik.ch/2009/06/safari-is-driving-me-nuts/ Update: You can find new video tutorials on how to install SnowLeopard on our new partner site technow.cc. I finally got OSX 10.5.7 to install on my new eee 1000HE. This guide is quite basic, again you’ll have to enable your brain at a certain moment ;-) Thanks go to Greg, slither2007, pentiumpc, Thireus,strongesthylian, ... http://www.enik.ch/2009/05/osx-leopard-1057-on-the-eee-1000he/ As I said in my previous article, my 1000H just died on me with a high pitched whining sound… It seems that it is beyond repair and I got a 1000HE instead. I love the new keyboard and the battery life is pretty amazing (and I got ... http://www.enik.ch/2009/05/the-1000h-is-dead-long-live-the-1000eh/ Turn off this baby monitor, let the baby cry and finally get full WIFI throughput… A very interesting article on ars technica gives some details on possible bandwidth limiting, wave emitting devices in our household that interfere with a healthy WIFI reception. The ones that are ... http://www.enik.ch/2009/05/let-the-baby-cry/ Today, the fan of my Asus 1000h started to make some bone chilling, whining sounds which are absolutely unbearable. So I took it back… 3-4 weeks for the repair and me without my trusty netbook…   Fortunately I did test the 10.5.7 ... http://www.enik.ch/2009/05/fan-noise-my-1000h-died/ Update: you can find new video tutorials on how to install SnowLeopard on our new partner site technow.cc. I just upgraded to version 10.5.7 of Leopard on my 1000H. I did this by downloading the Combo Update directly from Apple (just to be sure…) and executing it on the eee PC. Everything went ... http://www.enik.ch/2009/05/osx-leopard-1057-update-on-the-eee-1000h/ After the February redesign I saw some very annoying performance issues. The Theme was gorgeous but extremely slow to load with all the scripts and images. So I decided to go for a very simple and sober new theme in order to ensure a good user experience on eNik based on ... http://www.enik.ch/2009/04/enik-redesign-for-performance/ Update: You can find new video tutorials on how to install SnowLeopard on our new partner site technow.cc. I finally got the time to update my article on how to install OSX 10.5.5 on your eee 1000h. The procedure is pretty much the same but I tried to add the cool stuff ... http://www.enik.ch/2009/03/osx-leopard-1056-on-the-eee-1000h/ The proof that you can take quite interesting pictures with the iPhone. http://www.enik.ch/2009/03/iphone-photo-art/   As you may have read some posts below I had some bad stuff happening to my iPhone last time I tried to Jailbreak it (first the boot logo loop and then the phone part not activating – meaning I made a wonderful jailbroken iTouch out my iPhone). Now ... http://www.enik.ch/2009/03/iphone-jailbreak-with-obstacles/ Finally got the Hibernation (aka Deepsleep) working on my eee 1000H Hackintosh. This with the latest Chameleon loader and some modifications in the ACPI handling. Below you see a short video of my 1000h waking up (is a bit slow because I have 2GB of RAM). http://www.enik.ch/2009/03/eee-1000h-hibernation-works/