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Error when trying to install Windows 7 x64 on your Mac

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I tried to install Windows 7 Enterprise Edition x64 on older iMac at work with Bootcamp. After booting from the Windows 7 DVD I got the following error:

“Select CD-Rom Boot Type:_”

Now with this steps you can solve this issue by creating an new Windows 7 ISO image (I found this solution on Fluxbox.co.uk) :

  1. Create this 3 folders: C:\Windows7exe, C:\Windows7iso and C:\Windows7dvd
  2. Download oscdimg.exe and save it into C:\Windows7exe
  3. Copy the Content of a Windows 7 DVD or ISO to C:\Windows7iso
  4. Open the DOS prompt and navigate to the C:\Windows7exe directory (the place where oscdimg.exe was saved)
  5. Run the oscdimg.exe with the following parameters:
    oscdimg -n -m -bc:\windows7iso\boot\etfsboot.com c:\windows7iso c:\windows7dvd\windows7dvd.iso
  6. Burn the new windows7dvd.iso to a DVD and boot this with the Bootcamp installer.

oscdimg.exe

Enable Tiger “Classic” Style Dock In Leopard and Snow Leopard

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defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean NO; killall DockIf you like the old or classic Dock Style from Mac OS X 10.4 you can enable this in Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) and in Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).

Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) Dock:

Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger DockMac OS X 10.6 (Leopard) Dock:

Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Dock

  1. Open Mac OS X Terminal in the Utilities folder
  2. Run the following command in the Terminal
    defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES; killall Dock
  3. Now you have the classic Dock activated

If you want to activate the new glass Dock again, you can use the following command:

defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean NO; killall Dock

How to use Adium on every Mac OS X Space

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Since Mac OS X Leopard I use Spaces a lot. In the System Preferences, Expose & Spaces you can configure Spaces. You can also configure Applications to use everytime the same Space. So for example my iCal always opens on Space 3, Tweetie always on Space 1 and so on. This is nothing new but it is pretty usefull to arrange your workspace like that.

Mac OS X Spaces

I also use Adium a lot so, often I copy past something form Safari, Evernote, Mail or another program to the Adium Message Window. But with Spaces I always had to drag the Adium Message Window to the Space of the Application or the other way round. But there is a pretty cool setting in Spaces. You can set an Application be on “Every Space”. So I set Adium to “Every Space” and I don’t have to move the Adium Message Window or a Application.

Mac OS X Spaces

I know this is nothing new, but I just didn’t know about this function.

Convert Word Documents to PDF with Automator

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I got a lot of Microsoft Word Documents form one of our professors at KTSI. But Evernote only supports text recognition inside PDFs. So I converted all Word Documents to PDF with the Mac OS X Automator.

How to convert Word Documents to PDF:

  1. Open Automator under Mac OS X
  2. Add a “Get Specified Finder Items” object
  3. Select the Word Documents
  4. Add another “Convert Format of Word Documents” object
  5. Set the Format to ” Portable Document Format (PDF)”
  6. Now click run and the Automator will convert all your Word Documents and you can find them in the same folder as the Word Documents

Mac OS X Automator