Installing Synergy Update

Posted January 12, 2012 by Chris C
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This replaces my previous install instructions for Synergy. With the latest Synergy 1.4.5 Beta release it’s even easier to install on the Mac because you no longer need to install QSynergy.

Just a reminder that I am running Windows 7 desktop and Mac OS X 10.6 on a MacBook Pro.

There are still bugs with this Synergy such as double clicking on the Mac not working and copy pasting only working from Windows to the Mac but not the other way around.  I’m a bit behind the Mac upgrade curve and am still using 10.6 X.  Maybe upgrading to Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion).

The steps to install Synergy are:

1) Download and install Synergy to my Windows desktop.  My Windows computer will be the Synergy server. If you are using Windows 7 you might need to run Synergy as Administrator by right-clicking on the Synergy Start Menu item and choosing Run as Administrator.

Click the Server checkbox as shown below. Then click the “Configure Server…” button.

Synergy Server Main

2) At first the Server Configuration screen will just have one computer listed but in our case we want to add our MacBook. Add the MacBook by clicking on the monitor on the top right and drag it into the gird.

Synergy Server Config

3) Now configure each monitor by double clicking on them and setting them up as shown below. In my case I have my MacBook on the right of Windows monitors.  Don’t forget that Macs like to put “.local” at the end of the computer name so if your MacBook is called MyApple its network name will be MyApple.local.

Synergy Server Config Left

Synergy Server Config Right

4) I don’t run Synergy as a Windows Service anymore. Instead I just start it as needed via the start menu. This is a personal preference so I can easily stop Synergy if I’m going to play games.

5) Installing on the Mac is now much easier. Synergy for the Mac now comes with a nice interface so you don’t need to install QSynergy anymore. Download the Synergy for the Mac, which is a dmg file. Double click the dmg file and drag the Synergy file to the applications folder as you would any other Mac application.

6) When you first run Synergy on the Mac you might get the warning below. You can safely answer open.

Download From Internet Warning7) Run Synergy on the Mac and set it up as shown below.

Synergy Mac Client Config8) Click start and you should be able to share your keyboard between the two computers.

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Kids Thinking Outside the Box – Planning

Posted January 4, 2012 by Chris C
Categories: Kids Thinking Outside the Box
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My daughter’s classmate to his teacher:

“My plans are unpredictable.”

Perfect saying for a T-shirt.

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Gifting Forward

Posted December 18, 2011 by AdaCC
Categories: Uncategorized

At SaturdayMP, we will be happy to put a copy of Mini-Compressor under your proverbial tree!

With Mini-Compressor, you can shrink those pictures of your adorable kids and email them to Grandma!  Or compress your wedding pictures from last summer to share with your cousin overseas.

We like to think of it as gifting forward.  Glad we could help.

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Installing Ruby on Rails 3.1 on Mac OS X 10.6 Notes

Posted December 7, 2011 by Chris C
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My notes for installing Ruby on Rails on 3.1 on Mac OS X 10.6.  This is not a tutorial or a how-to, just the notes I took as I tried to get Ruby on Rails up and running.

Rails + Mac

1) By default Ruby 1.8.7 is installed on the Mac and I’ve installed X-Code 4.

2) Surf the web a bit and find this website that talks about Mac Ports.  Download and install Mac Ports.

3) In a terminal install ruby via the ports by doing:

sudo port install ruby19

5) Ruby 1.8.7 is still installed and is still the default.  Read on how to change that and find out about RVM.  Try RVM instead of MacPorts.  First remove Ruby 1.9.2 installed by MacPorts:

sudo port uninstall ruby19

Then uninstall MacPorts.  More details here.

sudo port –f uninstall installed

You can also do some clean-up by running the following:

sudo rm -rf \
/opt/local \/Applications/DarwinPorts \
/Applications/MacPorts \
/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.* \
/Library/Receipts/DarwinPorts*.pkg \
/Library/Receipts/MacPorts*.pkg \
/Library/StartupItems/DarwinPortsStartup \
/Library/Tcl/darwinports1.0 \
/Library/Tcl/macports1.0 \
~/.macports

5) Install RVM.

bash << (curl -s href="https://rvm.beginrescueend.com/install/rvm">https://rvm.beginrescueend.com/install/rvm)

Then update your bash profile:

echo '[[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && . "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" # Load RVM function' >> ~/.bash_profile

Now if you open a new terminal window you should be able to type in RVM and get something.

6) Install Ruby 1.9.2:

rvm install 1.9.2

7)      Then make ruby 1.9.2 the default ruby to use:

rvm use 1.9.2</pre>
ruby –v

The last command ruby –v should now say 1.9.2.

8)      Gems should be installed already.  Update it to the latest version

gem update --system

9)      Install Ruby on Rails using Ruby Gems:

gem install rails

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New Version of Mini-Compressor Released

Posted November 29, 2011 by Chris C
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We’ve just released a new version of Mini-Compressor that fixes an annoying install bug.  As usual you can download the new version via the Downloads page.

More information about the release can be found here.

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