The Beanster Blog

How to prepare your MacBook for re-sale or to give away.  Recently someone asked for help on wiping her MacBook so she can sell it. So what do you need to do before selling your MacBook?  This is what I did on her machine.  1. Backup w/ Time Machine 2. De-authorize iTunes. -- You only have 5, why waste them.  3. Log-out iMessages. 4. Download OSX create bootable USB. -- I borrowed my brother's bootable Yosemite stick.  5. Erase Mac using Find My iPhone app (or iCloud) -- I think this is the easiest way to delete everything on it.  6. Re-install OSX. -- After step 5, you will have a computer without an operating system. You can re-install using your recovery partition but the whole OSX will have to be downloaded (that's what happened to me first) that's why it's better to have a bootable USB stick with the OS ready.  Here is Apple's official guide, which I did not follow, because I only thought of searching for it after I had fi...

 Mac Star Wars Easter Egg 1. Open Terminal 2. Type “telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl” (no quotations) - hit enter 3. Go thru prompts (if necessary) 4. Star Wars will be shown in ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) art. Enjoy the show. Source: "11 Apple Easter Eggs Inside of Your Mac and iPhone http://t.co/F264kxB8wp via @sharethis " — Lia Espina Lopez (@leeyahgrl) December 31, 2014 http://mentalfloss.com/article.php?id=57527

I have an old Huawei E160 3G USB Modem from Globe. Which has already been sim unlocked. Works well enough on Windows 7 but had issues with it on OSX Mavericks. Well here is how you fix that. 1. Download the ZIP file  http://1drv.ms/1iF4fMM 2. Unzip 3. Install huawei_universal_425_05.pkg to your OSX machine 4. Open Network and add your connection 5. Connect to the interwebs!!! 6. BTW you can also install the bundled app (usually a branded version of Huawei's Mobile Connect) from your 3G USB stick and use that if you don't want to manually input the settings.