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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