Apple Wireless Keyboard – Why are my batteries dead???

I’m an Apple fan, wouldn’t say a massive fan, but a fan nonetheless. The hardware they have for most of their products is top notch and the software puts simplicity at its heart for its users. I don’t mean to dis Windows, I use that as well and Linux too.

I wrote this because of a pretty serious problem I have (serious in that it is costing me money or rather batteries).

I got the Apple Wireless Keyboard last October and I really like it. Took awhile to break in the keys but its pretty good, nice sleek form factor and was at the time very good on battery usage in fact I didn’t have to change the batteries till I ran into my problem.

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Weird fonts in Finder on Snow Leopard 10.6

Hey, so after getting Snow Leopard installed I changed a lot of things around, one of which is the fonts that the OS uses located in System Preferences -> Language & Text.

The default is “English” along with a whole list of supported languages that the system can use. So I removed them all and added “British English” as the only language to use.

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Installing 4 Gigs of 800Mhz DDR2 RAM into a Macbook that won’t take it…

Ok I have this black Macbook that I got last August, my first ever Mac and I love it,  Macs  just make life so easy, especially since most of my servers are Linux based. Whenever I need to use Windows I just use a VM, VirtualBox namely.

Anyway, I found that overtime the 2 gigs of RAM that I had in this mac would fill up from all the applications I had open. The logical choice was to get more RAM. I bought 4 gigs in total, in a 2 x 2gig config. The RAM was from Crosair because that’s my preferred brand.

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Finding unused Windows Drivers the easy way…

One of the main cause of Windows crashing is device drivers, be they not working correctly due to a bad install, having a new driver replace an old driver etc. In most cases this leads to a blue screen of death and a reboot but in some cases it can just cause windows services to stop working unexpectedly and your left trying to figure out what caused the crash. In my experience it’s mostly due to drivers.

This fix should work on Vista and XP.

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Installing more RAM might not be so easy sometimes….

I recently upgraded one of my desktops to 4 gigs of RAM divided up into 4 sticks of 1 gig each. The RAM sticks all match one another which allows for the Dual Channel in my Motherboard to be used, making the OS even faster to use. I tend to only use Corsair in my machines as I personally find it to be the fastest RAM that I have ever used (and you can overclock it quite nicely as well )

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