Posts tagged Windows
Free TV Channels
Mar 6th
The danish public service channels from “Danmarks Radio” can be streamed and viewed directly from QuickTime, iTunes, VLC player etc. on both Mac and Windows by downloading a few channel files (.mov). This of course also opens the option to stream and view the channels in Frontrow on Mac:
All you have to do is to download the files and add them to your library:
Download TV Channels (danish channels)
A friend of mine is monitoring the channel streams at his website, here you can see how reliable each stream are >> Stream Status
Sources:
Boot Camp: Windows 7 on iMac – Fix Black Screen
Jan 4th
Recently I was making a Boot Camp installation of Windows 7 on my iMac, however, it did not go as smoothly as expected. During the installation process the screen went infinitely black, and it was not possible to continue the installation process.
Software versions:
- Boot Camp 3.0 (Mac OS X Snow Leopard)
- Windows 7
Doing a little search, I found the following solution on how to fix the problem.
Update: Apple has made a support article on the issue: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3173
Solution (step by step from the beginning):
- Run Boot Camp Assistant from Mac OS X Snow Leopard (Applications -> Utilities)
- Create a partition for the Windows installation using Boot Camp Assistant
- Plugin your install disc and install Windows 7
- The system will reboot a couple of times during the installation
- The problem: The second time the system reboots, you the see the Windows red-green-blue-yellow animated logo, and then the screen goes black and hangs infinitely.
- Press and hold the power button on your iMac until it shuts down.
- Start the iMac again holding “alt” key, so you can select and load Max OS X Snow Leopard again.
- Run any application that let you work with NTFS partitions (e.g. Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X or MacFuse)
- Find the file “C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ATIKMDAG.SYS” on your BOOTCAMP partition, and simply delete it.
- Restart you iMac, and boot up Windows 7
- Now Windows 7 should boot normally
- Run update windows utility and install Boot Camp drivers from the Mac OS X install disc
Boot Camp: Create Partition Error – Files cannot be moved
Jan 3rd
Recently I was about to install a Windows 7 beta using Boot Camp on my iMac, but it did not succeed due to an error. I was setting the Windows partition to 80 GB with plenty of free space available.
Then I got this error, namely “The disk cannot be partitioned because some files cannot be moved”:
But I did not like the idea of formatting my hard drive due to fix the issue, and make Boot Camp work. However, I found an other solution to the problem, namely installing tool to defragment the hard drive. Defragmentation is not something you usually do on a Mac, but here it came in handy. I found these two tool to do the trick:
- iDefrag (I used this)
What the tools basically do, is that they are able to moved the files, which for some reason is blocking the Boot Camp Partitioning.
Mac Themes for Windows 7
Nov 1st
Running Windows 7 on Boot Camp on your Mac, you might like some Apple or Mac OS X like themes for your Windows 7 installation. Here is a couple try out. I am also look for more and better Mac or Black themes for Windows 7, so please post if you found some nice ones…
All of these themes are installed without extra patching of you operation system, download the themes below.
Download the themes:
Windows 8 theme for XP/Vista/7
Sep 20th
There are many loose rumours about Windows 8 so fars, but it hasn’t stopped designers to make Windows 8 wallpapers and Windows 8 themes. The first Windows 8 Theme I have found is the Windows 8 Professional Edition theme.
Window 8 Theme
It is available for you.
Download: Get it here
Read Mac-formatted hard drives on Windows
May 3rd
HFSExplorer is a free application that can read Mac-formatted hard disks and disk images. It can read the file systems HFS (Mac OS Standard), HFS+ (Mac OS Extended) and HFSX (Mac OS Extended with case sensitive file names).
HFSExplorer allows you to browse your Mac volumes with a graphical file system browser, extract files (copy to hard disk), view detailed information about the volume and create disk images from the volume. HFSExplorer can also read most .dmg disk images created on a Mac, including zlib / bzip2 compressed images and AES-128 encrypted images. It supports the partition schemes Master Boot Record, GUID Partition Table and Apple Partition Map natively.
