My new Mac Pro had a strange problem. When I turned on the Mac or woke it up from sleep it had no ip anymore. The only way to fix this problem was to switch the cable from ethernet 1 to ethernet 2. Sometimes I had to repeat this step, turn wireless on and off and finally I got an ip. When I restarted the router I did not have to switch the cables, then I got an ip immediately after the restart.
I searched on the internet and found several solutions:
- Reset PRAM
- Remove and add the ethernet connections
- Check the cable (the cable worked for years on my MacBook Pro)
- Try different ports on your router
None of these succeeded. I decided to contact Apple within a few days but first I searched again on the Internet. I found this page which described exactly my problem. The interesting part of this thread was about the FritzBox since I do have this router as well. The thread suggested to disable energy saving mode on the ethernet ports of the router. Which turned out to be the solution! Now my network is immediately connected after a reboot or wakeup.
The FritzBox settings which needed to be changed
general
apple, ethernet, fritzbox, mac pro, macpro, network, OSX
Every time I reboot my Mac Pro the sound output resets itself to internal speakers. This is quite annoying and I had no clue how to fix it. This topic on the Apple forums shows how to fix it.
First delete the audio preference folder:
$ sudo rm -r /Library/Preferences/Audio
Recreate a new one:
$ sudo mkdir /Library/Preferences/Audio
Change the permissions:
$ sudo chown -R _coreaudiod:admin /Library/Preferences/Audio
Go back to the sound preference panel and set the audio to the one you prefer. This will recreate the settings file.
Reboot the system and see if it works.
general
apple, audio, mac pro, macpro, OSX
I was quite annoyed by the Apple logo watermark on every DVD menu I made with iDVD. It turned out that removing is was suprisely simple.
Apple logo in iDvd menu
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general
apple, idvd, imovie
Today I added a new Mac section on http://www.basvandijk.eu/mac/. This section might be helpful for people who just started using a Mac and do not yet know which software can be useful.
Software
apple, mac, OSX
If for example Pages crashes telling you and error occurred with the SFWordProcessing plugin. The steps below might be a solution:
- Make sure all applications are closed!
- Open Font book.
- Scroll down to the Hoefler font and ctrl + click on it.
- Choose “Remove Hoefler Text Family”
- Download the new Hoefler font.
- Extract the Hoefler.zip file and place it in: Macintosh HD/Library/Fonts
- Launch Pages or iWeb and the everything should work as usual.
Hoefler
Software
apple, font, iweb, OSX, pages
If you are wondering about whether your software will run on the new OSX Snow Leopard this is definitely a site to check out. Wikidot listed lots of OSX software and the how they run on Snow Leopard.
general
apple, OSX
Xbench is a tool which benchmarks your Mac. It runs several tests like: harddisk, memory, cpu, graphics and more. The nice thing: it is free 
Results after running xbench
Software
apple, OSX
The monitor I am working on is a Samsung 244T. This monitor has the capability of rotating from landscape to portrait mode. OSX supports rotating the screen, but to do so you need to go trough a lot of menus.
Display Rotation menu icon
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apple, OSX
