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Archive for December, 2002



[Version 1.2.1 2005.06.29]

If you have one of the wonderful USB HotSync and charger cables sold by brando.com.hk, only to find your new device can’t be seen by the system after upgrading to Jaguar, here is the quick and dirty workaround.

This tip was gleaned from reading through a thread at The Gadgeteer, discussing issues people were having with various drivers for these devices, namely the Bafo and Brando branded USB HotSync and charger cables for Palm V and Vx devices.

Continue reading ‘Enabling the PL2303 kext for use with Mac OS 10.2.x – 10.3.x’

Ok. Sometimes even the best computers crash. They’re still too primitive for the complexity we push on them. Poor things. Poor us. Here’s a script that helps clean up the mess left over from a system crash in Mac OS X (10.2). The script first checks your harddrive and attempts to repair it, then asks you if you want to delete old swap files (virtual memory), and cache files scattered around your system. This script has only been used with Jaguar! You could really damage your system if you use this on some other platform.