Photo Clash

*Please note that all information provided here are just for experimental purpose only. If you like the software, go and purchase a license.

Sometimes 3 days for a trial isn’t enough, we need more time to test a software and what it is capable of especially software which main purpose is for outdoor use such as GPS navigation. This software provided works and tested on my E90, and others claim that it works on N95, 6110 and other Symbian S60 V3 feature pack 1.

Cracked by Illusion, I will guide you step by step in installing this crack version of Nokia Maps which enables you to use navigation features with no cost.

First thing you need is to prepare a list of software I have compiled for you to download are as the following:
Hack Symbian with Hello Carbide and ROMPatcher
X-Plorer (to allow view hidden files) and keygen.
Nokia Maps v2.0.2602 Cracked by illusion

What you will need next is the phone device itself, provided there are at least 16mb of free space to install. Then go to http://www.nokia.com/maps then download and install the trial version of 2.0.2602 with the filename Nokia_Maps_2.0_2602_3.1_u.sis usually under N95. In my case when I selected E90, it shows an older 2.0.2201, don’t download it, you need version 2602 to make it work because the essential part here is License Manager v6.16 which comes with that specific version.

All the hassle here is actually to allow your phone to install unsigned application. If you want to try, immediately install the cracked file after installing the trial version. If it works, you may skip all the next steps and you’re done otherwise, you need to allow install unsigned applications on your phone (also known as ROM patch).

Next step is to prepare the hack by extracting Hack-Symbian-with-HelloCarbide-and-ROMPatcher.zip and copy the HelloCarbide, installserver.exe, and ROMPatcher from the zip to your phone’s memory card. Install X-Plore to allow viewing hidden files and folders.

Then, install and run HelloCarbide, then go to “Options” then select “Menu1″ and messages will appear, just repeatedly select “Yes” until the program crashes and quits (this is normal).

Open X-Plore, set the settings to show all hidden and system file, then copy installserver.exe to “c:\sys\bin\” folder (not c:\system) — This allows you to install unsigned application. Then restart your phone.

Last step before installing the cracked version, install the ROMPatcher provided and run and toggle restrictions off in the menu. Then when all is set, you may install the cracked version without any certification error.

To remove ROMPatcher, delete the following files:
C:\private\10003a3f\import\apps\ROMPatcher_reg.rsc
C:\resource\apps\ROMPatcher.rsc
C:\resource\apps\ROMPatcher_aif.mif
C:\resource\apps\ROMPatcher.mbm
C:\sys\bin\ROMPatcher.exe
C:\sys\bin\RPengine.ldd
C:\sys\hash\ROMPatcher.exe
C:\sys\hash\RPengine.ldd
C:\System\Data\RP.dat

Enjoy navigation with Nokia Maps 2.0 without needing to pay for license. Note that everytime you want to navigate, you must select “Accept” for the agreement and “Purchase” while not actually purchasing, and lastly “Download” while not actually download. Please purchase the license and re-install the official application if you like it and you will not be nagged with those warnings and dialogs everytime you want to navigate. Thanks for reading.

I just realized while browsing and having this headache that there is a really cool way that you can move a sharepoint site up or down in your hierarchy.

Let’s say you created a sharepoint site your root level (ie http://intranet/website) and six months later you decide it really should be contained under your IT subsite (http://intranet/it/website). You can use the program STSADM to move a site from one location to another.

Steps to move a WSS subsite.

1. Create the new target URL (I created a blank site @ http://intranet/it/website)
2. Fire up the command line
3. CD \"Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\BIN"
4. Export the old URL using the following Command:

stsadm -o export -url http://intranet/website -filename c:\test\backup.cmp

5. Import the file back into Sharepoint using the the following command:

stsadm -o import -url http://intranet/it/website -filename c:\test\backup.cmp

That’s it! You have moved your website. You need to check user permissions especially if you are moving to a new subsite!

OTHER COOL STUFF: There is an option to -includeusersecurity while you do the export. You can also choose whether or not to pull all the revisionhistory over with the doc libs or not…

For a full view of options for Export / Import, run the following commands to see all your options:

stsadm -o export

stsadm -o import

These will print out all your possible options for doing these two operations!

Microsoft technology can be quite complex but pretty much straight forward. Here I would like to explain how to publish Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007 (Sharepoint 3.0) on an active directory (joined domain) with Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006. Before we get going let me explain a little bit about it:

Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007 (Sharepoint 3.0) is something of a content management solution (think joomla, phpnuke, etc where you need not develop a website from scratch but simply customize whats available and focusing on content you wish to deliver. The concept of sharepoint is quite different from joomla and other CMS as this is meant for enterprise solution, it is usually for intranet because it handles file sharing, forms and lots of features which requires huge bandwidth but of course you would want to publish some content you feel fit to be broadcast. Sharepoint main components are farms (think land/area in which many sites are placed in), site collections (think houses which are placed on the land/area, which can also be considered as website) and of course sites (think rooms inside the house, which is also considered as webpages).

Active directory is something like a domain consist many users inside it which holds user profiles, preferences as well as many other things. The benefit of using active directory is once registered, a user can use any computer (including server) joined in that domain using their username, profile and password stored in the active directory. Users of course are grouped accordingly to their roles such as administrator, approver, etc. and are cotained in a domain controller server.

Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006 is the main gateway for the internet to an internal network. Its hardware consist of 2 Network Interface Cards holding 2 ip adresses (1 for internal and the other for internet). ISA combines many features and roles, mainly firewall and NAT. Think of it as the main gate of a village which is well-guarded and secured.

So, to continue, you must already set all three components in your network as each will play a role in this article.

To start, lets say you have configured Windows Server 2003 R2 on all servers and all are joined in a domain set up in your domain controller server using a single administrator from that domain. On a server lets say you have installed Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2003 successfully including the site collection (which holds the main website for example access to the server can be reached by entering: sps.samplesite:80 in the address) and working locally within your network. On another server, lets say you have installed ISA server and configured it and is currently working properly (meaning the firewall rules are working and users in your network can browse the internet).

Now it would be unlikely to tell your network users to access your site by entering sps.samplesite:80 because it would seem odd and difficult to remember. Go to the Sharepoint 3.0 Administrator, head for Operations>Global Configuration and find alternate access mappings. This holds the information of the url which is allowed to be used to access your website. Set a new public url and enter a good name, in this case sps.samplesite.com and set it as default. Once completed, your website can be accessed locally by entering sps.samplesite.com. However not on other computers.

Now head for the Domain Controller Server and go to Administrative Tools>DNS and inside Forward Lookup Zones, you will find your domain name, for example samplesite.com and you will see a list of names of computers registered in your domain. Now, right click on samplesite.com and select Add New Host (A) and enter sps so the FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name) would appear as sps.samplesite.com. Enter your Sharepoint server ip address and hit Add. Now you can browse to your website from any computer within the network by entering sps.samplesite.com.

Ok, your website is up and running locally and users can access and share information within the network. So lets take this website to another level so it can be accessed from anywhere in the world with internet access.

Head for ISA server, open ISA Server Management and inside Arrays, you will find the name of your ISA Server and inside it find Firewall Policy (Server_Name). You will find a set of rules created earlier which allows internet access, block specific sites, etc. Now right click on the Firewall Policy and enter new>Sharepoint Publishing Rule. You will be introduced with a wizard, follow it.

First you must set the name, lets say Publish sps.samplesite.com and hit next.

Now you are asked for your publishing type. If you wish to only publish a single web site, well, select it. But I would recommend you to select Publish a server farm of load balanced web servers which allows you to publish other sites within your sharepoint farm without having to configure it again.

Once you click next, you are asked whether you are using SSL or non-secured connections. Since SSL are quite slow and you already have ISA configured, I would suggest you to select Use non-secured connection because you are trying to publish a high-bandwidth website and you dont want to make it slower.

Next you are asked to enter Internal Site Name, enter sps.samplesite.com which you have just set in your DC-server.

Next you are to enter your sever farm name, click on new to add your farm. A New wizard will appear, enter your server farm name and click next, now inside it, add your server by clicking Add, enter your computer name or ip address. Once done, hit next. Now you must enter a method of the ISA to monitor the connectivity of your sharepoint server, I would suggest Send a ping request as it would be the fastest and easiest solution to check. Hit next and your done.

Click next again would allow you to enter the public name details. Enter your public name which is sps.samplesite.com (assuming you have registered the name sps.samplesite.com in your ISP). Hit next to continue.

Now you are asked to select a web listener. This means ISA would redirect users from this listener to your sharepoint website. Hit new, and enter your web listener name. You are once again then asked whether you want to use SSL or not, but if you selected non-secure connection previously, select Do not require SSL secured connection and hit next. Now you are presented with a list of sources which would access your website. Since you want to publish your site, you must assign 1 free public ip address provided by your isp. Click on External and click on Select IP Addresses. A popup will appear, select the third one since you don’t want all traffic heading to your website. Add a new ip and enter your free public ip address provided by your ISP and click add. Then on the web listener click next, which then would allow you to choose how your users are able to login, as starters, I se HTML Form Authentication which then allow users to login using a login page provided by ISA. On the bottom, you are asked how ISA will validate the credential, select Windows (Active Directory) since you have DC-server configured and all users are logged in using joined domain. Hit next and uncheck the Enable SSO since you dont need it and your done.

Next you will be asked for Authentication Delegation, select NTLM Authentication if you have set it in the sharepoint administrator 3.0 or leaved it as default.

Next you will be asked for Alternate Access Mapping Configuration, select Sharepoint AAM is already configured as you have set it in the beginning from sps.samplesite:80 to sps.samplesite.com and hit next.

You will be presented with user sets, if All Users is already in the list hit next, if not then add All Users. Hit next and your done!

You can check your sharepoint website and make sure its working, if not, see if you missed something or if you’re still stuck feel free to email me (provided on the intreoduction text). Have fun!

Well now, its been a while since the last time I entered this blog. I’ve been thinking that whether my blog here be best if I put strictly photographic stuff or put everything here.. I’m thinkin’ of hosting my blog else where which I recently started at http://apamungkas.blogspot.com but lets see. ‘Nuff said, let get to the point:

I would like to explain several things regarding html basics which some people probably knew already or not. No matter, what you should know is that layouts of any website, I mean any website with good layout are organized in tables. Tables are easier to manage with specifying rows and columns. Rows are defined as <tr> and columns inside rows are <td>. So it will not show if you define <td> before <tr>. For a single row with three column will show as the following:

<table>
<tr>
<td>a</td>
<td>b</td>
<td>c</td>
</tr>
</table>

which would look like:

—————–
| a | b | c |
—————–

Now, what would really look cool is if you have some sort of image or text which could appear right in the middle of the web browser no matter if the browser is resized, it could maintain the ‘middle’-ness.

For that you can define tables to align everything to the middle.

For the record, there are several versions of HTML document definition which you could read from W3C, but basically, the higher the HTML version, the more features it has. The latest version to date is HTML version 4.01 which has cool features that you can read from W3C.

Unfortunately, when you create a HTML page in Dreamweaver whether blank or template, it defines the version of HTML as version 1.0. So what you need to do is change the DocType before the <head> tag by replacing everything before <head> with the following:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html lang="en">
<!– $Id: cover.html,v 1.2 1999/12/24 23:37:45 ijacobs Exp $ –>

If you do not however, the page height would not be detected since HTML version 1.0 does not include this feature therefore rendering the page to be aligned on top of the page.

Once completed, your HTML document will be recognized as version 4.01 which supports table height. Now once you create a table, you should set the height to 100% and set the column to align center and valign middle. The following example shows the text “Hello World” right in the middle of the page regardless setting the browser height by the visitor:

<table width="100%" height="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td align="center" valign="middle">Hello World</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
</table>

Notice the table is set height and width to 100%, this means the table adjusts itself to 100% for the height of the browser and 100% for the width of the browser allowing it to fill the entire browser area. Notice also that the <td> align is set to center and valign to middle meaning that the content in that column is horizontally centered and vertically aligned in the middle. This example is a 3×3 table if you notice 3 <tr> (row) and 3 <td> (column) inside each <tr> (row).

Happy layout-ing!

Distributors such as aspyr, macgames, etc usually creates ports for already available pc games. Well, the good news is, they run exactly like the PC version of the game and for some, even faster. Such as Call of Duty 2, with an Intel Graphics VGA card, the game won’t even run on a Windows PC computer, but on a mac, it will run on any mac graphics card. The bad news is, its extremely difficult to find mac games, especially here in Indonesia. Another bad news is that since Apple has transitioned from PowerPC to Intel processor, Intel mac users can’t rely on the processor emulation (rosetta) for graphics-intense games and universal binary is a must. Well the best news is, worry not! Most of your favorite games are playable at its peak, even if you don’t have the Macintosh version. As long as you have the original PC game (or whatever as long as you have access to copying the files), you can enjoy them on your mac! I won’t elaborate on how to do each games, but i’ll give you a nudge to the right direction. Go here for the full-fledged list and guide for each games. For intel mac users, make sure the universal update is available (if possible-the crack as well so its easier for you), after applying the convert, simply update/crack it and your good to go! Have fun!

Ok, so i’ve just finished writing you a guide on installing Vista with the drivers for your MacBook. Today, Apple has just released a new public beta of its Boot Camp version 1.2 which supports Vista. Oh well, I hope my blog is still useful for you. Anyway, since I haven’t tried this myself as I am still downloading, the major changes since my unofficial guide as I suspected are:

• Its official
• Support time sync (dunno whether its between both OS in the same machine or not)
• IR received, now the remote control works!
• Trackpad
• I-Sight
• Modem
• Help within the Vista On-Line help
• Apple software update

Please note that you do not need to re-partition your OS or reinstall your Vista if you already followed the steps provided. Just install and all old drivers will be overwrited. I will hopefully let you know my experience.

For those being afraid not to be able to install Vista on their macs due to the purchase of "upgrade" version, don’t worry. Install Vista without the serial number which renders your copy as trial. After completing the installation, re-install again within the trial version and everything should work fine. Have fun!

Oh hell with it, since so many of you send me e-mails, I get tired of replying them. Instead, I will post the instructions here for your eyes to feast. Please note that these instructions are for education purpose only, after you see this works, please immediately re-install your copy of Windows Vista and do whatever you like since I held no responsibility of what might happen if you don’t. This will make your Windows Vista be recognized as OEM (Windows that shipped pre-installed with a new PC) Ok, enough of the chit chat and get our hands dirty.

First you will need a copy of of the OEMTools from Team PARADOX here. Ok once you got everything, extract the files wherever you like, but make sure you paste all the *.XRM-MS file from the directory CERT in your root directory (in this case I presume its in C:\). So after you got the file, make a cup of coffee. Trust me, you might need it.

Now what you need to do is temporarily disable the UAC (the nagging screen which asks for permissions, but useful as it asks everytime something is executing - useful for preventing execution of worms or viruses accessing your important system files) by windows (or apple key if on macs) and ‘r’ simultaneously and type in ‘msconfig’ and press ‘enter’. Once msconfig runs, go to the ‘Tools’ tab and find ‘Disable UAC’ and enable it, then press ‘OK’. Now your Vista won’t ask for permissions anymore.

Now, Run ‘OEMTOOL.EXE’ from where you extracted the downloaded file, select the OEM BIOS information to emulate (ASUS might be a good choice given the fact that it’s the only OEM for which a complete set of product keys is provided) and hit the ‘<Install Emulation Driver>’ button. A warning will appear telling you that an unsigned driver will be installed, just allow it. Then once completed, restart your computer.

Install the OEM certificate matching your OEM selection during driver installation by going to command prompt again (windows key and R simultaneously and type ‘cmd’ and press ‘enter’) then go to your root directory by typing ‘c:\’ and press ‘enter’. Then type ‘SLMGR.VBS -ilc <OEMNAME>.XRM-MS’ (in my case, I typed "SLMGR.VBS -ilc C:\ASUS.XRM-MS" if you chose to install the default driver and extracted the certificate file to C:\ as I recommended you earlier). This will take some time to process so just be patient and don’t get frustrated, leave it and drink a cup of coffee or something.

Once done, Install an OEM product key matching the installed edition of Windows Vista x86 by typing SLMGR.VBS -ipk <OEM_PRODUCT_KEY> (in my case, I typed "SLMGR.VBS -ipk 6F2D7-2PCG6-YQQTB-FWK9V-932CC" because i’m running Windows Vista Ultimate using the default emulation driver). It will take some time again, so just sip your remaining coffee.

Ok, once completed, you can check your Vista validation by pressing windows key and R simultaneously and type ‘SLMGR.VBS -dlv’ and press ‘OK’. Or alternatively, you can right-click on ‘Computer’ listed when you press the ‘Start’ button and choose ‘Properties’. It should show that your Windows is activated. Then basically you’re done!

I suggest that you then update your Windows, install especially the ‘Intel Integrated Graphics Driver’ and your system rating will increase from ‘3.0′ to ‘3.1′. Not bad. But I warn you, currently the update for your Wireless Driver listed will make your wireless device not working, so avoid that one.

Ok now do what I told you on top as this process is illegal, beyond that, count me out. Have fun.

Ok, so I’m assuming you have re-installed your OS X Tiger. Now our next step is to install Vista. Reboot your computer with Windows Vista DVD inside the drive, during the ‘bong’ sound press and hold option button and select the DVD. It will ask you to press any key to boot from DVD, so press any key.

Installing Vista

Once everything is loaded, Vista will ask you to select language, select the language. Now Vista asks for a CD-key. For those with original Vista CD, enter your valid CD-Key, for those who do not (such as myself as I find it ‘not worth’ $399 just to get a full featured software) leave it blank and uncheck the box saying ‘activate when online’. Next, Windows will ask for an option of installing whether its advanced or normal, the only way to go is advanced as the normal will be disabled.

Once inside the advanced, it will show several disk partitions, since in the previous chapter I told you to rename each partition, now is the time to know why, since you gave a name for each partition, make sure you select the correct partition. Installing will be disabled for now, you will need to click on the button which says ‘format’. After formatting, proceed with the installation until its completed.

Congratulations, now you have Windows Vista and Mac OS X Tiger in your mac machine. In MacBooks, aero (the 3D glass transparent menu) will automatically be enabled by default as the driver from Windows itself is available. For other machines, I’m not sure. For MacBook Pro, you will need to download the drivers first from ATI Website and install it first as this is crucial for your machine.

Drivers

Now for the fun part, you will need to unleash all the power your mac has. To unleash it, you will need drivers for each items in your Mac. The drivers are actually for XP (to date during writing this guide), so it won’t be as easy as installing drivers in XP, but most hardware will work.

So first thing you need is BootCamp drivers. Reboot to Mac OS X Tiger (in case you forget, during the ‘bong’ press and hold ‘option’ key) and install BootCamp. Once installed, the application will be located in utilities. Double click ‘Macintosh HD’, the hard disk icon on the top right of the desktop, double click applications folder and double click utilities folder. In there you will see ‘Boot Camp Assistant’. No need to open it, what you need is control-click on the icon and select ‘Show Package Content’ (third row of the menu), double click ‘Contents’ folder, double click ‘Resources’ folder and lastly, double click DiskImage.dmg. This disk image contains all the XP drivers you will need for running Vista. Copy the content in a USB drive, or copy it to your third partition in your hard disk (which I meant for shared documents in previous chapter). This is why I told you that burning a CD for drivers is just a waste because you can copy it without spending a blank CD. Reboot back to Windows Vista.

Once Windows Vista is loaded, press apple (the key with apple logo) and R simultaneously, type cmd and a popup of DOS command prompt will appear. Go to the directory where you placed the drivers. For me, I copied it to the documents folder so in the command prompt I typed d: and the syntax will start from d:\_ so from here, I type "Install Macintosh Drivers for Windows XP.exe" /v /a and press enter. An warning will appear and just allow it to run. Now, an installation wizard will appear, so continue and it will ask where you want to place your files. Choose the same location as the installation or wherever you like. Once done, browse to the installation location with the explorer (from Computer found in the start menu). Three items should appear in the installation location which are Macintosh Drivers for Windows.msi, Program Files folder and System32 folder. Now you can start neccessary installation of drivers which your hardware has. If your confused, start with Apple Keyboard. Run the setup.exe file in the Apple Keyboard folder and proceed as normal installation. Now your apple will be enabled (eject, delete, etc). Next step is the sound driver (please note that you must know which driver is yours). For MacBook, the sound driver is SigmaTel while others probably realtek. Install the sound driver normally as you did on the keyboard. For the other hardware peripherals, you will need to go to Control Panel, and go to Device Manager. Start with iSight, it will appear as an unknown device in your hardware tree as seen in the Device Manager. Double click on the icon and press update driver button, and select ‘Let me choose from a list of device drivers’ and click ‘have disk…’. Browse to where you put the drivers earlier and inside iSight folder, select iSight.inf. Make sure you select Built-in iSight instead of USB Video to make it work. Please note that iSight will work only on some applications such as Windows Messenger or Yahoo Messenger. Ok, now you have the keyboard, the sound and the camera working.

Last one bit is a bit tricky because the bluetooth won’t work with Microsoft native bluetooth driver. Open the device manager again, and go to View menu on the top, and choose ‘devices by connection’ now you have your hardware listed in a different view. Click on the ‘+’ sign next to the ‘pci bus’ to drop down for the full list of connections.

Once you’ve expanded the ‘pci bus’ list you see a number of different ‘Intel 82801G/Intel 82801 GB’ options. The one we’re looking for has the letters - 27CB - after its name. Right click on the ‘USB Composite Device’ option and select ‘update driver software’ from the menu. A window opens and presents you with two options, choose ‘browse my computer for driver software’. A second window opens, from these two options choose ‘let me pick from list of device drivers on my computer’. Select the ‘have disk’ option then navigate to the your Bootcamp Drivers folder. You need to choose the ‘BthKicker’ option which is in the ‘Macintosh Drivers for Windows XP’ folder. Click OK. Click ‘install this driver software anyway’ and then wait for about 30 seconds or so while your Bluetooth software is configured.

So now you have a fully working Windows Vista with all your hardware peripherals working. Have fun!

Ok for those wanting more fun or wanting experiments on how to make your Vista activated without needing to activate online or phone, proceed to the next chapter.

This entry was made for my personal reference and for some who might need it as well. As to date, there is no official support on Windows Vista for MacBooks, and Bootcamp only supports Windows XP. You don’t need to be a tech savvy to follow these instructions, despite it being a little difficult and it took me 3 days to figure everything out to be working perfectly, all you need is understanding my english and a little computer knowledge. I will divide the guide in 3 parts which includes: Introduction and Preparation, Installing Vista and Drivers, and last but not least: activating vista offline (some might want to skip this last bit as this process is actually illegal and I don’t want to be responsible for your actions. Also, I’m just making it easier for you who want to know how as some underground sites provide details in such techy jargons which is quite difficult to understand).

Preparing the Platform

Here’s what you’ll need at least to get it done:

1. A MacBook or MacBook Pro or Mac Mini with intel processor any spec should work.
2. Mac OS X Tiger recovery DVD (usually bundled with your mac).
3. Windows Vista (any edition)

First step is fairly easy but timely, probably around 45 minutes depending on your configuration (it takes about 30 minutes for my Intel Core Duo 2Ghz MacBook with 2GB of RAM and 80GB HDD). Asuming your macbook is new out of the box and never been partitioned etc. But if you have, please return it to its original state: single partition mac journal disk with OS X Tiger 10.4.6 or higher. Next step you will need is bootcamp from apple which can be acquired here. Current version is beta 1.1.2, which would work normally, although you will need version 1.1.1 to make the one button mouse work. Install bootcamp as you would normally install a mac app, double click the .dmg file (which is actually a disk image) and it will appear on your desktop. Open it and install bootcamp by following the instructions given (or just click next, next, yes, yes etc) until done. Once installed, open it. It will ask you whether you want to burn a disc containing drivers for Windows XP (now why would you want to waste a blank CD for such thing? skip it! i’ll let you know how to get it later on) say that you already have the disk. Then it will ask you to partition the existing hard disk.

Disk Partition for Mac and Windows

As for me, I have 80GB (actually its around 72MB since 1GB is 1024MB and 1MB is 1024KB, and they count it in KB) which I want to split into 3 parts: 25 for OS X, 25 for Vista and 25 is for shared documents between OS X and Vista. Alternatively, you can partition it to whatever you need if you have a different size of disk space (assign at least 10GB for Windows Vista). Please remember, if you have less space than 60GB I suggest that you skip the shared documents partition and leave it as 2 partition and assign the windows partition wisely as you cannot re-partition once you already completed the whole process. Also please note that in Windows, you cannot read mac files not even OS X Tiger’s partition, and in OS X however, you can read but not write on Windows Vista’s partition. Ok, if you have 60GB or more, assign any size as the windows partition.

Advance Partitioning

Just FYI, bootcamp creates 2 smalled partition (around 200MB) for the BIOS emulation but you need not to worry as it would not be visible until you start installing Windows. If you have less than 60GB hard disk space or you decide to have only 2 partition, skip this process and continue to the next part of the blog, thank you for reading. Please note that this is a timely process because you need to reinstall you OS X Tiger again.

Ok, if you’re reading this, that means you want a third partition for your documents to share between vista and tiger since it will feel that you have 2 different and unconnected computers which sucks as you might need tiger to do one thing and vista on another to the same file, thats why I suggest you need a shared documents between the 2 computer. Ok, enough of the explanation and let’s continue our process.

Reboot to your Mac OS X Tiger recovery DVD by restarting your computer and press and hold ‘option’ on your keyboard when you hear the ‘bong’ sound. A menu will appear, this is bootcamp. You will have 2 choices, ‘Macintosh HD’ and the DVD. Select the DVD using your cursor and press enter.

Once inside the recovery disc, you must select language, select english or any other language you understand and press next. Go up to the menu bar (beside the apple logo on top), select ‘options>disk utility’ and wait for it to load. In the disk utility, you will see your hard disk, partition the hard disk into 3 parts, remember, you will need at least 20GB for Mac OS X Tiger, 10GB for windows Vista, use it wisely as you will not be able to change the size once you install Vista. Don’t forget to also rename the partitions to prevent mis-installing. Oh, and don’t worry about the partition of bootcamp as I explained earlier, its hidden so your good to go.

Once your done partitioning, re-install your OS X Tiger on your designated partition now or later after you install Vista. You decide. Once done, proceed to the next chapter.

Phew… after several months not updating my blog, many thing changed. Was extremely busy with work, travel and not to forget my latest gadget. Well I’ll just give you an overview on what’s updated during the last several months. I changed my laptop to a MacBook Black 2GHz Intel Core Duo (first generation) with 80GB HDD and upgraded to 2GB of RAM so Apple Aperture 1.5.2 runs smoothly without needing for modifications. So, I’m very sorry to tell you readers which expects cracks on the latest updates, that I no longer provide cracks as Aperture fully supports my MacBook.

I have sold my Nikon D70s together with all the lens, accessories and bags I had (save for the Nikkor AF 50mm f1.8 D) and purchased a Nikon D1X, Nikkor AF 80-200mm f2.8 D-ED and Tokina AT-X 12-24mm f4 together with LowePro Mini Trekker Classic for the bag.

Unfortunately, as the weight of my D1X is 1,25 Kg and the Nikkor AF 80-200mm f2.8 D-ED itself weights around 1,5 Kg so I’m not as flexible but I still manage to bring my gear now and then. Also another factor which cripples my flexibility is that my job requires me to bring a hefty laptop around during my travel so sometimes I miss great landscapes and events… .

So, thats all for today. I hope you still keep checking this blog. For those who couldn’t use Aperture due to Windows operating system, I am happy to tell you that there is a great application which is similar to Aperture by the name of Adobe Lightroom 1.0 and a full version is obtainable here or for you Mac users just wanting to use it or unable to use Apple Aperture due to hardware limitation can download the trial from Adobe’s website and use 1160-4301-7977-0221-2925-0568 as the serial (just don’t tell anyone hehehe).

Cheers,

Aditya Pamungkas