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Apple, General

OnLive Desktop – Access Windows 7 Virtual Desktop from iPad

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Many times while working on iPad, we may require access some PC/Windows Applications. Well,,,there are some Apps out there which let you remote your Windows desktop but those are not so smooth to give you a rich user experience. This is more due to time lag between what action you perform and when it finally occurs on it.

This week OnLive launched a new iPad App, named OnLive Desktop, which lets you access a Windows 7 Desktop, not your own desktop but a virtual Windows 7 desktop from their own servers farm. Standard pack is pre-loaded with Microsoft Office 2010 Applications such as Word, Excel and Powerpoint. It also features some standard applications like Windows Media Player, Notepad, Wordpad, Paint. I have experienced Microsoft Surface Collage first time on it and it was awesome. Though standard version of it lacks Internet Explorer.

Currently OnLive is only available for Apple iPad but it will be soon available for Android™, PC and Mac®.

There are various service plans which OnLive has planned to offer

  • Standard @ Free – provides basic functionality with 2 GB of storage.
  • Pro @ $9.99/month – provides additional functionality like Web Browsing and ability to add Additional Applications.
  • Enterprise @ contact OnLive support – it is more like thin client for your enterprise custom virtual machines.

OnLive Desktop for iPad can be downloaded from here. You can look for further additional information at “http://desktop.onlive.com”.

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General, Lego, Macbook, Robotics

How to install Lego Mindstorms NXT 2.0 Software on Mac

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To install LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 1.1 on Mac OS 10.6+ (Snow Leopard / Lion)

  1. Copy all files from the MINDSTORMS CD to a folder on your desktop.
  2. Open that folder and look under “Parts”.
  3. Locate MindstormsUnivEdu.pkg or MindstormsUnivRet.pkg.
  4. Right-click (control-click) and choose “Show Package Contents”.
  5. Navigate into the Contents » Resources directory and delete the “preflight” file.
  6. Close this package and run the meta-package (LEGOMindstormsEngRet.mpkg) from the desktop to install MINDSTORMS NXT.

To install LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 2.0 on Mac OS 10.6+ (Snow Leopard / Lion)

  1. Copy all files from the MINDSTORMS CD to a folder on your desktop.
  2. Open that folder and look under “Parts”.
  3. Locate MindstormsUnivEdu.pkg or MindstormsUnivRet.pkg.
  4. Right-click (control-click) and choose “Show Package Contents”.
  5. Navigate into the Contents/Resources directory and delete the “preflight” file.
  6. Close this package and run the meta-package from the desktop to install MINDSTORMS NXT

To download Lego Mindstorms NXT 2.0 software click here.

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General, Google, Macbook, Web

Gtalk Extension for Chrome on Mac

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I was looking at the Gtalk extension for Chrome on Mac OS X Lion (10.7) on Chrome Web Store. I liked that and installed it and now I notice that Gtalk now comes on my Mac’s menu bar as an icon.

This one is great as clicking on the icon opens up a new small Chrome window for Gtalk. So iChat beware…here comes Google without any native applications but using only Chrome browser.

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Apple, General, Macbook, Technology

How to disable inline image attachments in Mac OS X Mail.app

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When you open or preview mails in Mail.app in Apple Mac OS X, the first thing you have problem with is big images are getting displayed within the message. Many times this makes you frustrating because you want to read the message and not want to keep on scrolling the window left and down. This is default behavior of Mail.app and does not show the images as attachments (even though sender had sent as attachment).

To overcome this behavior, you can disable the Inline Attachment Viewing flag for Mail.app. To do so, open up a terminal window from “Applications->Utilities” and type or paste below command:

defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool yes

At any point if you change your mind and come back to the default behavior use the below command:

defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool false

Restart the Mail.app and voila!

Also remember, this will disrupt any HTML mails coming which have images.

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