I upgraded my 2010 Mac-mini HDD to an SSD and in doing so I broke the HDD temperature control sensor off the motherboard. When it first happened I thought I had ruined my Mac but after finishing the project and powering it back up all that it had done was make the fans run at a full 5500 RPM 100% of the time. I did some research and found some helpful information on how to fix this problem.

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I had the opportunity to add an SSD to a 2011 27 inch iMac last week and wanted to post and share my experience so others could benefit from my work. In doing a lot of research I found that if you replace the existing drive with an SSD you will have fan issues and will need to use software to control them, if you ADD a second drive and leave the original in you will not have any of those issues.

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After several internet searcihng attempts I have finally come across a way to set up my iPad to make and recieve calls using my Google Voice number. The information is taken from this link but I am reposting it here incase I need to set this up again and that link is dead.

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I had an issue tonight where I changed my IP scheme in my house from a 10.0.1.X Scheme to a 192.168.1.X scheme. I failed to remember what the IP of my static assigned NAS was and was unable to log in until I remembered the IP. I downloaded a tool called NMAP and started running some scans on the network to find my missing IP.

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Uh oh looks like in June of 2010 i posted pictures of my first (and only at the time) son and said that he was my "favorite son". Wile this was true in June of 2010 it is not the case now.

I have 2 sons and they are both amazing, I love them both very much and wouldn't want one to run into this website 20 years from now and see that post without a follow up!

Here are a few pictures of them from this past Fall.

I have ordered my new Apple TV and while I wait the 3ish weeks for it to arrive I have been working to get my Movies library converted from AVI to a nice apple friendly MP4 format. I did a bunch of searching and exploring and found the best solution was to use the HandBrake Command Line Interface and run a batch process through the terminal on my entire movies directory and convert all my files without individual file interaction.

What the following process will do is scan the "source directory" for all AVI files and one by one re-encode them from AVI to MP4. This is a timely process but completely unmanaged as once you get the files in the proper source directory and start the batch process you can walk away.

I have started the batch on my AVI directory of 204 items and am waiting for the final results. The files that have been converted thus far have been perfect.

Follow the process below to run the script:

Download the HandbrakeCLI from here

Place the HandBrakeCLI file in the "Source Directory" where you have the movies you want to convert.

Create a new directory for the destination files to go

Copy and paste the following lines into a terminal window changing the source and destination directories to match your directory structure.

sourcedir="~/Movies/source"
destdir="~/Movies/destination"
cd "$sourcedir"
for i in *.avi; do
./HandBrakeCLI -i "$i" -o "$destdir/${i%.*}.mp4" --preset="Normal"
done

This is my first post from the blogger app on my iPad. Testing 123


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