Josh from Rocky Mountain Mac Repair demonstrates the steps for a solid state drive upgrade. Using an Other World Computing Mercury Extreme Pro 6G, he swaps the drive out on a 13-inch MacBook Pro (Early 2011). If you have any questions about the process, please leave a comment and we’ll get answer you as soon [...]
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Identifying your iPad, iPhone or iPod
To help ensure that you’re ordering the right repair on our website, we’ve created a handy guide to identifying your iOS device. On every iOS repair category, you’ll see that we’ve included the model number in the product category. By verifying the model number, you can be sure you’ve selected the right product. Take a [...]
I can’t find my iPhone backup – the Verizon saga – Updated
*** Updated *** We had a revelation and came up with a couple solutions for you. Please read our new article for a little more guidance with this problem. I received an interesting phone call over the weekend. One of my consulting clients was calling because they couldn’t restore their backup to their new phone. This client [...]
Will my Rosetta applications work with Lion?
There has been a lot of speculation floating around the internet that Mac OS 10.7 Lion will not support Rosetta. Rosetta allows PowerPC-specific applications to run on Intel computers. If we told you what applications needed Rosetta, you might be surprised. FileMaker 6, FileMaker 8, Quicken 2007, Office 2004 for Mac, lots of older printer [...]
Configure a Gmail Account for Mac and iOS
You may have noticed that we’ve been on a guide-creation-spree with Google Calendar, Google Contacts and Google Email (Gmail). We’ve already created the complete guide to Google Calendar Sync and a follow-up for Google Contact Sync… now we’re going to talk about Gmail. This is, by far, the easiest setup of the three. If you [...]
Google Contacts Sync for Mac and iOS
As we mentioned in Google Calendar Sync for Mac and iOS, we’re covering three ways to replace the syncing capabilities of MobileMe with Google Sync. With this part of the series, we’ll demonstrate contact syncing from your Gmail contacts, to your Mac’s Address Book, to your iOS device and back. This process will allow you to [...]
Google Calendar Sync for Mac and iOS
I canceled my MobileMe subscription about a year ago after I figured out that I could sync my contacts, calendars and email through Google… for free. Since I started using Dropbox for file synchronization, the $99 a year just didn’t seem worth it. I’ll cover as much of the setup process as possible starting with [...]
iPhone 4 Jailbreak and Unlock now available.
Last Sunday, the Dev-Team released software that will allow you to easily jailbreak any device running iOS4 with jailbreakme.com. It uses a browser-based installation method that is the easiest jailbreak we’ve ever seen. Dev-Team member Comex designed the exploit using an unknown exploit. In order to jailbreak your iDevice, he sends a PDF with a [...]
How-To: Create an infallible backup.
The title itself is nearly impossible to obtain but we have one solution for you that might actually come close. It’s as easy as Time Machine (well, it sort of is Time Machine) and one piece of hardware. Most people are perfectly suited with an external hard drive connected to their Mac via firewire. With [...]
How-To: Add book cover images to your iBooks in iTunes
Very soon, all of us — not just iPad users — will be able to download iBooks from the iTunes Store and view them on our Apple mobile device of choice. iPad users, obviously, already have this feature. iPhone and iPod touch users will see this addition when iPhone OS 4.0 comes out sometime this [...]
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