No, I’m not back from my self-imposed leave of absence, but I do have a super quick post to help out people who’ve made it into the Google Music beta and are using an iPhone, iPad, iPod, or some such iOS device.
If you’ve been trying to use it and found it to be frustrating, you’re not alone. Here’s a couple quick tips on how to make Google Music remotely useful on your iPhone or iPad:
That’s it. For those of you lucky enough to get in, this should make it moderately useful while we wait for Apple to offer a service that’s better integrated into the iPhone/iPad.
So I recently purchased an Android phone, the Samsung Captivate, which is the US AT&T version of the Samsung Galaxy S, and I’ve discovered that switching has been difficult. Aside from the obvious learning curve of going from one system to another, there’s been quite a few issues that have been incredibly aggravating and have left me wondering if I can make it to 30 days, let alone past 30 days, without getting a refund and getting an iPhone 4 instead. However, I’m still persisting for the time being, and while I’m suffering, I figured I’d address what issues I’ve been able to solve, but to also air some others and see if you folks have any ideas. Who knows, maybe there’ll be a good idea in this somewhere.
Before I get into any of this, a word of warning: Windows users, this probably won’t help you (assuming you even have these issues to begin with). For the Mac users still reading, if you’re experiencing the “Cannot connect to YouTube” error in the YouTube app, or experiencing the “Connect to iTunes” graphic every time you boot your iPad, then you may be in luck as I stumbled onto the “fix” this morning while on the phone with an iPad product specialist (one of those Senior Support guys). Also, this is likely affecting a small group of users, so I fully admit this may not be entirely applicable to you, but hey, it worked for me. Oh, and I’ll include a possible fix for the wifi not automatically rejoining networks.
This is going to be yet another one of those really quick posts where I apologize for not highlighting this sooner and also telling you that someone else (or a few, really) has done the leg work and that I’m going to point to their work as an excellent starting point. So, if you’re looking for info on installing and running OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard on your Asus Eee PC 1000HE, then do I ever have links for you!
First off, once again the folks from the smallcomputing.net forums have come through in a big way and have a thread already going that’s full of info, troubleshooting, and kexts that should be of great help to anyone who may not know where to start or is having trouble in the process. So, here’s the good stuff:
Ok, short and sweet. Want to know how to install retail (vanilla) OS X 10.5.7 on your Asus Eee PC 1000HE? Read the detailed forum post by LonelyTV on our forums here (it’s one of those awesome community efforts). No sense in me trying to reinvent the wheel, so click away already. I apologize for not having pointed this out to everyone sooner.
And since I know people will stumble onto this later with questions aplenty — there’s a lot of information in that thread as well as the forums in general. Even though some of these articles get a lot of comments, the answers are, frequently, already in the forums if you have a minute or two to poke around.
Cheers.
P.S. I’ve seen a lot of 1000HA and other variants mentioned in comments lately and all I can say is there’s no guarantee that the steps involved for installing on the 1000HE will work exactly the same on other models. Even though Asus makes all of these and they more or less have the same hardware, there are occasional differences in the netbook models that creates incompatibilities.
Quick and dirty, this is not going to cover everything, but if you have an hour to kill, you will get OS X working on your Samsung N120 netbook, but don’t expect every last thing to work. Ready to get started? Grab your Samsung N120 netbook, iDeneb 1.4, and get these video kexts and let’s go to work.
As I said in the OS X on Asus Eee PC 1000HE troubleshooting article, I figured I’d go ahead and throw together a more traditional how-to to help out some folks who were interested in installing OS X on their Asus Eee PC 1000HE netbook. Now, it’s not exactly difficult, and this is little more than cobbling together work that others have done, so allow me to give credit where it’s due and list those sources before we get into the actual steps. Just keep in mind that some things won’t work (yet).