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“You cannot install Office 2008 12.1.x on this volume. The version of the software required to install this update was not found on this volume.” Even a clean reinstall from the source Office disk did not fix this issue. After several back-and-forths with Microsoft, the following solution worked.

1. Run the Remove Office app, which is located in /Applications » Microsoft Office 2008 » Additional Tools.
2. Delete the following files and folders:
* /Users/(me)/Library/Preferences/(all files that start com.microsoft)
* /Users/(me)/Library/Preferences/Microsoft
* /Users/(me)/Library/Application Support/Microsoft
* /Users/(me)/Microsoft User Data
* /Users/(me)/Documents/Microsoft User Data
* /Users/(me)/Documents/Office Projects
* /Library/Receipts/(all files that begin with Office 2008)
3. Reinstall from the Office source disk and update.

A word of caution: back up your personalized settings before erasing the Office files. If you use Entourage for your email, back up your Entourage data in your user’s Documents » Microsoft User Data » Office 2008 Identities » Main Identity folder by copying it to the desktop. If you have created templates, back those up by copying them to the desktop from your user’s Library » Application Support » Microsoft » Office » User Templates folder.

There are several hints here on how to get Time Machine to backup to an unsupported AFP share, but I found no mention of how to restore from such an unsupported share. After spending some time on Gooogle, I found this page.

The essence of the solution is that once the installer has booted from the DVD, one has to go to the Terminal and mount the AFP share manually:

$ mkdir /Volumes/TimeMachine
$ mount -t afp afp://user:password@afpserver.local/ShareName /Volumes/TimeMachine

Quit Terminal, then enter the Time Machine Restore utility. The unsupported backup volume should then show up.

one of my friends who has been using macbook for last 1 year, he was so pleased that helped apple to get free market promotion from him.

however macbook didn’t treat that way as he was treating her. suddenly he discovered his macbook with uncertain problem. after trying this and that he hadn’t found any way out.

so one fine day when we achieved our victory (16th december) he got victory for himself too.
it was his RAM baby!, one of the ram was damaged.

after 2 days struggling finally he got the problem, though he tried with local apple dealers but none could help on this issue.

later he discovered apple has very user friendly simple way out to diagnosis your mac system.

hold “D” key while you booting your macbook, you should see a self checking panel. where you would find “test” button, just go and click to see what went wrong with your macbook.

after few seconds to minutes passed you would find some error code, search it on apple support.

thats all, thats how he could fix his problem i guess if you face the same kinda problem now you know how simple it is.

btw, actually he had RAM problem which was occurred because of stupid hard reset while his computer was busy with 100% processor consumption.

still not getting your reason? hold apple + V while you booting your macbook to get in verbose mode.

best wishes,

this post will help them who are using hacked iPhone and mac os x 10.5.6(released December 15th ‘08). if you want to jailbreak or upgrade the firmware of your iPhone using mac os v10.5.6(released December 15th ‘08) then you have to follow these steps otherwise your new mac os will not support to upgrade your hacked iPhone. it’s unclear if apple did this intentionally or if it’s a bug in the kernel.

you are required to be logged in as an administrator and you must provide the admin password.

• checks if you are at mac os x 10.5.6 or better (if not will quit)
• quits all running apps (with save option)
• backup the original files (AppleUSBHub.kext and IOUSBCompositeDriver.kext from 10.5.6) in a new folder on your Desktop
• asks for your admin password
• copy AppleUSBHub.kext and IOUSBCompositeDriver.kext from 10.5.5 into the desired location on your mac
• set owner:group and permissions
• rebuild the kextcache
• reboot your mac

download the automator application from here.
http://www.iphone-hacks.com/downloads/Install_IOUSBFamily_kext_10_5_5.zip

1. unzip the archive
2. place the “Install_IOUSBFamily_kext_10_5_5″ folder on your Desktop (This is important)
3. open the folder and start the application “Fix_DFU_10_5_6″
4. you will see the readme box (click “OK”)
5. provide your admin password

let the Application do it’s job

6. at the end the Finder will open another dialog box telling you that the cache is being rebuild, click “OK” or just leave the box alone. after a couple of seconds your mac will reboot automatically – done, DFU is enabled again and your mac os x is ready to jailbreak your hacked iPhone.

At my work, sometime i need to take screenshot of my desktop to make reports. I was using grab (mac pre installed software). But here my main problem is i have to press lot’s of keys(mouse). After googeling i found that there is another solution:

Command-Shift-3: Take a screenshot of the screen, and save it as a file on the desktop
Command-Shift-4, then select an area: Take a screenshot of an area and save it as a file on the desktop
Command-Shift-4, then space, then click a window: Take a screenshot of a window and save it as a file on the desktop
Command-Control-Shift-3: Take a screenshot of the screen, and save it to the clipboard
Command-Control-Shift-4, then select an area: Take a screenshot of an area and save it to the clipboard
Command-Control-Shift-4, then space, then click a window: Take a screenshot of a window and save it to the clipboard

In Leopard, the following keys can be held down while selecting an area (via Command-Shift-4 or Command-Control-Shift-4):
Space, to lock the size of the selected region and instead move it when the mouse moves
Shift, to resize only one edge of the selected region
Option, to resize the selected region with its center as the anchor point

i found this information on this site . You can check there site, there you will get some more usefull info

Quick Look is a nice feature added in 10.5, I use it often for glancing at the content of various documents and it certainly beats launching an application. If you’re an avid command line user though, you may be browsing through a directories contents and wondering just what is that JPG or DOC file. Wonder no more, because you can easily use Quick Look from the command line:

From the command line, use the following syntax:

qlmanage -p filename.jpg

This will launch a Quick Look window with whatever file is specified as ‘filename.jpg’, the file type can be anything that Quick Look is compatible with (which seems to be just about everything).

The qlmanage command has other abilities, here is the full flag list, courtesy of qlmanage -h:


Usage: qlmanage [OPTIONS] path...
-h Display this help
-r Force reloading Generators list
-p Show a preview of the documents
-t Show thumbnails of the documents
-s size Size for the thumbnail
-f factor Scale factor for the thumbnail
-c contentTypeUTI Force the content type used for the documents
-g generator Force the generator to use

As most of the ISP now following the MAC base network security, some time you may need to change your mac book/iMac’s ethernet cards MAC address. It’s now too simple on mac os x. just open a terminal and paste this command, and don’t forget to change this command with your correct mac address.

sudo ifconfig en0 ether aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff

That’s it. Now check the magic

As i am a web application developer, lot’s of time i have to work with css. And right now i am using CSSEdit , it’s simple amazing. It’s now giving 100% satisfaction, because here i can work even on live site with it’s own preview option. I can change the little thing and get the preview without any single page refresh. not only that, it also giving me the option to select/change the properties with mouse click. Tomorrow i will make some changes on this theme (right now we are using), of-course i will take help of CSSEdit.

I think it’s the best css editor on mac . If you are not agree with me, you can also tell your favourite css editors name.

Only bad is , it’s not open source

The Mac OS GUI and all it’s eye candy is a pleasure to use and look at. By holding down the Shift key, you can slow down virtually any Aqua effect in Mac OS X, from minimization to expose. If you want something truly useless but kind of fun, you can make the slow effect permanent by typing the following command in the Terminal:

Enable Slow Animations:
defaults write com.apple.finder FXEnableSlowAnimation -bool true
Disable Slow Animations (default):
defaults write com.apple.finder FXEnableSlowAnimation -bool false
For changes to take effect, you’ll need to reload the Finder either by logging in and out, or by killing the Finder. You can kill the Finder via the command line by typing:
killall Finder

On Sunday, Apple sold its one millionth iPhone 3G, the company announced today. “iPhone 3G had a stunning opening weekend,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “It took 74 days to sell the first one million original iPhones, so the new iPhone 3G is clearly off to a great start around the world.”

WOW, i wish i will also get one very soon.