Oct 13 2008

OS X Memory Issues

With Activity Monitor and the Finder open, and, a few background apps (Remote Buddy, Proxi, and PTHPasteboard). I had just closed all other apps: Mail, FireFox, iTunes, PandoraBoy, Adium, iCal, probably a few others.
With 3GB Physical RAM in this system, I was left with 750MB free:

This, is no good.
Update (12/29/09): I finally googled this, no [...]

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Oct 11 2008

MacBook Pro Riser

For about $8 I made the equivalent to the Griffin iCurve/Elevator with PVC pipe.
Original idea was from Instructables. I adjusted for size of the MacBook Pro, and used 1/2″ instead of 3/4″ PVC. 3/4″ seemed far too heavy duty for this.
If you want to make one for your 15″ MacBook Pro I recommend using 1/2″ [...]

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