posted by Alpay filed under Mac
I was tinkering with the Mac, and the Windows Mobile Phone to somehow -by chance- get GPRS over Bluetooth running.
I am not sure how or why it worked, but it did, so let me bring together what I have done. It may someday help someone:
- Get WM scripts for Mac from Ross Barkman’s page. Put them under /Library/Modem Scripts.
- Pair your phone with your Mac over bluetooth.
- Make sure that your GPRS connection settings are correct in your phone (get in touch with your provider if necessary)
- Learn the dialing code for the GPRS connection – I can’t believe there is a dialing code for GPRS. Mine was *99# for Turkcell.
- Tinker with your Network connections so that your bluetooth device is set up.
posted by Alpay filed under blogging
Blogging is really hard. Due to the fact that it contains some writing effort 
It is hard to come up with ideas, for which I can give credit to myself, but actually organizing these thoughts in a manner that it is easy to understand or enjoy by some people I don’t even know… Well, this is the hard part.
I have noticed my impatience last week with blogging. I am not an impatient person. I can wait indefinitely at times. But when it comes to blogging I want results… now!
That is why I keep on abandoning blogs every month and starting new ones every other month. This is not how it works. The PSP Port -our pet project- got noticed by Mr. Google after almost 2 months and now people seem to visit the site even when there are no updates and pretty small amount of content.
Blogging is not easy. It will be my personal test for patience in writing and self-confidence.
posted by Alpay filed under Mac
As I have explained in a previous post, everyday a few times I can not switch spaces directly by clicking on applications. The workaround is to kill Dock from Activity Monitor or typing “killall Dock” into command line. Performing this three times a day becomes quite annoying so I have done the following:
- Open ScriptEditor
- type: do shell script “killall Dock”
- From the file menu click Save As…
- Give a name like killDock
- Choose “application” as type
- use Quicksilver, Finder or your favorite application launcher to kill dock and solve the Spaces/Dock Problem.
posted by Alpay filed under Mac
Using a mac after an eternity with Microsoft software is like heaven. Interestingly I have never thought that heaven was fast, lightning fast. My Mac experience has been strongly associated with speed, due to my choice of MacBook Pro as my main machine, 4GBs of RAM I have on board and probably due to Mac OS X. The sense of speed is not available in BootCamp using Windows XP.
Mac OS X seems not to care about the number of open applications and the complexity of rendering visuals. It is as if there are reserve power under the hood whenever you feel like you need it.
There are however two components of Mac OS X, especially 10.5 (Leopard) that makes the experience complete. These are Quicklook and Preview, where the former is 10.5 only, while Preview has been around for a while.
These two applications help you access any resource any time with great speed. With Quicklook you can check the MP3 file you have found with no descriptive name with a single key or access contents of a document you have downloaded in seconds. The alternative is to load up a Word processor (and unfortunately word processors these days seem to be able to clog even a mainframe-class computer). Preview on the other hand opens tons of different file types ranging from images to PDFs and even manipulate them, converting image formats, cropping etc. I have to say that I am impressed these functionality is provided with the operating system out-of-the-box and works smooth as silk.
Note: While writing this post a memory of a game called “Dynamic Dux” arrived from the depths of time when we all had C64s and Amigas. I couldn’t find any pictures, videos and information for this game except some cheats. Can anyone out there help me?
posted by Alpay filed under Mac
Well if you are like me and have the weird problem of automatic space switching (where you click or switch to an application and the space it resides in opens automatically) stops working for some reason just go ahead and start activity problem and kill the process named “Dock”.
posted by Alpay filed under Technology
Today I got introduced to a great little software called HFS (HTTP File Server), which is a way to serve, share your files through a simple easy to use webpage. The beauty however is the size of the software and how it operates. This is actually a single executable file with no installation. Go ahead and try, it is wonderful and free…
posted by Alpay filed under Life
I just can’t understand the madness associated with digital A/C in cars. These things doesn’t work. You hop in to your car, start it. The A/C is set to 21 degrees and outside temp is like 30 so it blows like crazy and makes such a noise that even hearing the stereo is impossible. Then you arrive at your destination and since it is scorching hot out there the A/C has been running like crazy all the way. What is the deal with being digital or automatic then?
Even if you will be driving a while, you set it to 24. It becomes too cold so you set it to 26, it becomes hot. Well I do not mingle with my manual analog (whatever) A/C as much as I do in cars with digital automatic ultra-super-high-technology A/C.
I just don’t get it…
posted by Alpay filed under blogging
is a no go unfortunately. You can not install Google Analytics on your wordpress.com blog.
Well since this is an exploratory blog I may survive with no Analytics in the short run.
posted by Alpay filed under Mac
As you may already know, MacOSX has a built-in spell checking feature available anywhere in the operating system. Today I was writing something and noticed that a word has been underlined in red, suggesting a misspelling. Right-clicking the word opened up a context menu, suggesting correct spelling and an option to add to dictionary…which…I…unfortunately clicked.
Now I have a wrong spelling in my dictionary and will never be able to spell notorious correctly. Is it possible to somehow remove this?
I was tinkering with the Mac, and the Windows Mobile Phone to somehow -by chance- get GPRS over Bluetooth running.
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