Week seven of my Project 365 is now online. Within this project I will make one picture a day and publish it regularly.
Visit http://www.blogable.eu/project-365/ or http://www.flickr.com/photos/blogable/sets to find out more.
Having bought my second Western Digital MyBook 1TB, I faced an annoying issue: I couldn’t get rid of the virtual CD. This may seem a small problem, but I dislike when I have to deal with stuff, I didn’t ask for in the first place.
My first thought was to delete the part of my hard drive that contains the files. That didn’t work out well, not to say not at all. Not even my beloved gParted could get rid of it.
Step two was the visit of Western Digital’s website for more information. (Only a geek would understand why this wasn’t my first step. 
) I ended up here but wasn’t happy with that solution. Yeah I know, I’m difficult.
My final solution was the cleanest in my opinion and includes typing the following into the terminal:
sudo sh -c "echo UUID=`diskutil info /Volumes/WD\ SmartWare/ | grep 'UUID' | awk '{print $NF}'` none hfs rw,noauto 0 0 >> /etc/fstab"
After a restart there’s nothing but a clean desktop and my Finder isn’t unnecessarily cluttered either.
Week six of my Project 365 is now online. Within this project I will make one picture a day and publish it regularly.
Visit http://www.blogable.eu/project-365/ or http://www.flickr.com/photos/blogable/sets to find out more.
Week five of my Project 365 is now online. Within this project I will make one picture a day and publish it regularly.
Visit http://www.blogable.eu/project-365/ or http://www.flickr.com/photos/blogable to find out more.
Week four of my Project 365 is now online. Within this project I will make one picture a day and publish it regularly.
Visit http://www.blogable.eu/project-365/ or http://www.flickr.com/photos/blogable to find out more.
Facebook is a versatile social utility to keep in touch with your friends, share information and also to play games. While it is interesting to read news about something you’re interested in or participate in as well, I don’t need all updates. I’m not saying I don’t like my friends, I just don’t need to know whenever someone found a lonely duck in Farmville. There are different ways to achieve an uncluttered wall and following I would like to indroduce 2 of them:
Hide unwanted applications
Go to your wall and hover your mouse over the message you would like to ignore. Now click on Hide and choose to either hide messages from that person or just the application.
Install a Greasemonkey script
Visit this page to find out how to install this script and remove quiz messages or other unwanted updates.
Week three of my Project 365 is now online. Within this project I will make one picture a day and publish it regularly.
Visit http://www.blogable.eu/project-365/ or http://www.flickr.com/photos/blogable to find out more.
André wrote a nice article on how to disable the annoying message you get when you call someone or even when someone calls you. Well, the article isn’t really about that but rather tethering. Nevertheless, thanks to Michael, I know now that a side-effect of setting this up, is that the call forwarding message disappears.
If you’re German speaking, just visit André’s (more detailed) or Michael’s (additional information) article and follow the steps. Otherwise, just read on:
1-a) Mac OS X: Close iTunes, open the Terminal and type (copy/paste) the following:
defaults write com.apple.iTunes carrier-testing -bool TRUE
1-b) Windows: Close iTunes and type (copy/paste) the following into Start -> Run
%ProgramFiles%\iTunes\iTunes.exe /setPrefInt carrier-testing 1
2) Visit this website, scroll down to the table, choose your carrier and download the *.ipcc file.
3) Connect your iPhone via USB and start iTunes.
4) Now press Alt (Mac OS X) or Shift (Windows) and search for updates. A new window will open, where you choose the just downloaded file.
5) You don’t get much response from the system (or at least I didn’t get anything), but it sure works.
Seems that I’m in a spacer / blank icon mood lately, but they really help if you’d like to cluster your apps and therefore ‘unclutter’ your working space. (I just wrote an article on how to add a spacer for iPhones here.)
Here are the few steps it takes to achieve this:
1) Go to Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal
2) Type or copy/paste the following:
defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add ‘{tile-data={}; tile-type=”spacer-tile”;}’
3) Press enter and type or copy/paste this:
killall Dock
4) Once you pressed enter, you will realize that you have just created a spacer.
5) Repeat as you wish (restarting the dock in-between isn’t necessary) and exit the session by typing:
exit
6) Now the Terminal can be closed. The icon(s) can be treated like normal ones (moving and deleting).
Enjoy your new found tidiness.
Having almost 4GB and endless pages of apps on my iPhone, I started to wonder if it’s possible to add an icon as a spacer to increase the clarity. There are many ways if you have a jailbroken phone, but I also found a way to do so on a ‘normal’ one.
Just follow these steps:
1) Visit http://blank.appleiphone.fr/ with your iPhone
2) Add to Home Screen
3) Instead of typing something which would appear as name, click Cancel
4) Add to Home Screen – again
5) Now the Add button appears without typing a name
6) Move your new spacer (blank icon) to the place you’d like it to be and voilà, there it is.
Thanks for the hint Ananas!
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