How to add a second harddisk to your MacBook Pro …

A while ago I replaced the harddisk in my Mid 2010 15″ MacBook Pro with a nice 160Gb Intel SSD. But, I have both MacOS X and Bootcamp with Windows 7 installed, which – as you can guess – makes 160Gb eventually rather small. But getting one of those much bigger SSD’s is kind-a painful for my wallet, specially since I had a similar 160Gb Intel SSD spare laying around (long story).

But how do I get 2 harddisks in my MacBook Pro?

A few handy little Tips and Tricks for Sick Beard, Couch Potate users …

Sick Beard and Couch Potato specially when combined with SABnzbd, are simply awesome …! 

Installing and using Sick Beard or Couch Potato is not that complicated either.

A few things can be a little daunting though like for example;

• The naming convention of “Specials“
• What to do when two or more episodes are combined in one file
• Downloaded files do not get “moved” but copied and old files remain in the “Completed” folder of SABnzbd
• What are TBN and NFO files?

In this short article, I’ll explain how I resolved these little issues …

So you have a Unibody MacBook Pro and want to switch between the slow Intel and the faster nVidia video?

Apple equipped most of their Unibody MacBook Pro models with 2 graphics processors; one for long lasting battery life (Intel) chip and the one for gaming (nVidia) and otherwise graphics intens purposes.

The switching happens automatically and there appears no clear way to do the switching yourself … or is there?

So you erased the internal disk of your AppleTV and want to go back to the original OS?

It happened to me; playing with a 1^st generation AppleTV, installing (and thus wiping) a AppleTV suitable Ubuntu version. Only to find out that I goofed up and had to go back to the original OS to change some video settings. Yes I was playing with CrystalBuntu … (highly recommended!)

Now it appeared that restoring back to the original AppleTV OS wasn’t all that simple – since I literally wiped the entire disk – until I bumped into v1.1 of StmLabs’ Windows Installer UI.

File compression on the Mac made easier with a free program called Keka.

As a switcher from Windows, I do miss my WinRar under MacOS X. Keka is offering similar functionality – with the exception of compressing in the Rar format. It does however decompress numerous formats including Rar.

Here I present to you briefly Keka as a tool for your Mac.