Archive for August, 2010


Force Resolution Change in OS X

Filed Under: Apple by Thomas Hunter — 4 Comments
2010-08-17

This is how you can force OS X to use the proper resolution of your monitor.

Open up Finder, go to the Applications folder, then into Utilities, and open up Terminal.

Now, type the following command:

sudo nano /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist

You will then be prompted for the administrator password for the computer. Enter it and and press enter. This will open the console based text editing program named “nano”, with the administrative permissions (required so you can edit the file), and opens the configuration file for the system resolution. You should now see something like this screen:

OS X Change Resolution

If you don’t already have a line in here for the Graphics Mode, you can add it so that it looks like it does in the screenshot. After this line  you’ll add a String element, with the WIDTHxHEIGHTx32 format inside of it. Once you’ve made the necessary changes, press Ctrl+O (Opt+O) to write the file and Ctrl+X (Opt+X) to exit the file. Once you do a reboot you should be good to go with the new resolution.

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HTC Evo Android Froyo 2.2 Battery Life

Filed Under: Hardware by Thomas Hunter — Leave a comment
2010-08-03

The latest version of Android, version 2.2, finally became available for us Sprint HTC Evo owners.

The battery life with light usage used to be about 6 hours with Android 2.1 (light usage being listening to music 50% of the time and an occasional web page browse).

However, now that the update to Android 2.2 has emerged, battery life is a little better. I’m getting about 9 hours of life with the same amount of usage.

You’ll still want to charge your phone a little before the end of the work day, but it’s a lot better than before.

Sure, I know the battery life on these things could be better, but it’s just so awesome that I don’t care. Also, I work on a computer with spare USB ports so this is not a big deal whatsoever.

And you iPhone 4 diehards, you can still go to hell. Why is the HTC Evo better than the iPhone? I can drag and drop MP3′s to the phone, from any PC in the world, without installing any shitty software, and have it play like a charm.

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