A Workaround for removing Western Digital’s SmartWare Virtual CD Partition

UPDATE 2:  A Mac OS X version of the firmware update and VCD Manager are now available here.  In my own test updating my MyBook Essential 1TB, both utilities worked perfectly.  See the comments below for more information. UPDATED: It appears that Western Digital has released a firmware update and a utility called VCD manager, […]

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How To: Run Lego Education’s WeDo software on OS X 10.4.11

legologoI realize the topic of this post may be a bit specialized, but I would surely have liked to had something like this as a guide when I recently had to overcome this challenge.

Most of our entire campus is still running OS X 10.4.11, for the sole reason that login times for a .local Active Directory domain STILL take 2-3 minutes (as of 10.5.6).  Our Lower School purchased some Lego robotics kits which came with new software called WeDo.  The minimum requirements are OS X 10.5, and the installer will not run on OS X 10.4.

To get around this, I did the following: (more…)

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Custom CS4 Icon

Since my CS3 folder icon has been my most popular blog post, I decided to create a new one for the CS4 suite of Adobe applications. I debated sticking with the ugly black font Adobe uses for the application icons, but I’m a sucker for consistency. Feel free to download and use, and as always, […]

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