Stangrunner Journal

How to fix poor Bluetooth performance in the Mac Pro.

Stangrunner — Thu, 10 May 2012 13:17:47 +0000

I have been having an ongoing issue with poor or intermittent Bluetooth performance with my early 2008 Mac Pro Quad Core 2.83GHZ workstation with factory installed airport and bluetooth radios. Trying to use Apple's wireless keyboard, Magic Mouse, and Magic Trackpad was becoming a frustrating experience. Luckily I found a thread on the Apple's support discussion by others suffering the same condition along with the fix.

Apparently, with the poor placement of the antennaes within the Mac Pro's all metal case, wireless performance suffers causing dropouts and overall poor reception. However, the "fix" is as easy as re-wiring the antennaes.

Here are the instructions. Good Luck.

How to fix Google Chrome slowdowns on Mac OS

Stangrunner — Tue, 01 May 2012 15:00:49 +0000

I have been having issues with Google Chrome 18.0.1025.168 (Mac OS 10.7.3 Lion) stalling and failing to fully load web pages and discovered a way to fix it.

Here we go:

1. Shut down Google Chrome and remove it using an app remover such as AppZapper or something similar. Using an application remover ensures all plist and other related files are removed.

2. After Chrome is removed. On Lion go to the hidden (use the option key and the "Go" command in the menubar while in a Finder window, if on Snow Leopard or earlier, no need to use the option key, the Library folder is not hidden by default) folder "Library | Application Support | Google | Chrome" and remove all the items in the directory. It may be wise to duplicate your bookmarks using Firefox or Safari first to ease in restoring them back into Google Chrome.

3. Now using Safari (or Firefox if installed) re-download and install Google Chrome. When complete, start the browser and go to the menu item: "Chrome | Import Bookmarks And Settings" and choose Safari or Firefox (whichever you decided to use earlier to duplicate your bookmarks). Allow it to complete and all your bookmarks should be back in their normal locations. You may need to re-log into websites and save your passwords again (or use the excellent 1Password password manager and just re-install the browser extension).

UPDATE: Still having the same issues. Chrome stalls and takes forever to fully load web pages. Removed all traces of it (as explained above) and did another clean install. Fast again. Now discovered on other sites that disabling the "predict network actions to improve page load performance" option in settings resolves the issue. Giving that a try. Will report my findings.

Update (05/06/12): Un-selecting the "predict network actions to improve page load performance" is the fix. No further slowdowns or stalling.

Update (05/08/12): Unfortunately, the issue has returned. I have removed and discontinued using Chrome until Google fixes the issue.

Cheetah Mounts High Speed 3D compatible Standard HDMI Cable with Ethernet and Audio Return (Newest HDMI Version) (10 feet) $3.49 each

Stangrunner — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:21:14 +0000

Cheetah Mounts High Speed 3D compatible Standard HDMI Cable with Ethernet and Audio Return (Newest HDMI Version) (10 feet)

Gold Box Deal of The Day - Save 60% or more on select Barska Flashlights

Stangrunner — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 16:19:09 +0000

Gold Box Deal of The Day - Barska Flashlights

Crucial 256 GB m4 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive SATA 6Gb/s CT256M4SSD2

Stangrunner — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 13:10:50 +0000

I have been using this drive for nearly a month now and it has been working flawlessly. Easy setup and install and blazing performance. If you are in the market for a SSD drive, this one is worth a look.

Crucial 256 GB m4 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive SATA 6Gb/s CT256M4SSD2

Google+

Stangrunner — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:45:34 +0000

Going to try posting exclusively on Google+ for a while. Click the link over there on the right (--------->) to see my latest posts. See you over there. :)

Happy New Year!

Stangrunner — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 16:55:15 +0000

Happy New Year everyone! Next week is going to be a zoo with all the new CES products and services. I can't wait....

Merry Christmas!

Stangrunner — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 21:54:07 +0000

May you all have a safe and joyous holiday.

Steve Jobs 1955-2011

Stangrunner — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 20:36:22 +0000

So long Steve. Thank you for everything you have accomplished.

Hello?

Stangrunner — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 16:17:03 +0000

I am still here. Been busy with life and work.

Lately, I have tried again to give the Seagate Momentus XT Hybrid drive another look. Been using it as an external offsite backup in an OWC Mercury On The Go enclosure and decided to upgrade the firmware to the latest SD28 (had seen some stuttering with SD24) and re-install it into an Icy-Dock adapter into my Mac Pro tower. So far it has been working great. No lags or stuttering using Mac OS 10.7.1 Lion. Here is an excellent step by step on upgrading the firmware if you are doing the same.

Anyway, that is what I have been up to. With regard to what I am going to do with this blog, I am not sure. Not sure if I want to continue with the link farm format (Ha ha.. just kidding!) or switch to a less active full posting format. What do you guys think? I will re-enable commenting on this post for your comments. Had to permanently shut down commenting on the entire website due to spam abuse. Till next time.