Saturday, January 26, 2013
Mentioned at 'travels with Miranda'.
We had a very nice review of our MacBook Magsafe DC car adapters here:
http://travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca/?p=17899
While you're at it check out RVing. Something I hope love to do someday!
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Magsafe adapters for Handicapped and wheelchairs
We have again recently converted a magsafe cable with Lind power adapters for wheelchairs!
They typically require 24vdc and that can safely be accomplished with the Lind power adapters.
Please contact us if you need such a conversion!
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Re-post: Illegal Magsafe 2 already?!
Recently, we were contacted by a Chinese company/person who said they sold Magsafe 2 cables at really cheap price and it was genuine Apple, therefore it's legal. We wrote back and said great! Can you send me your license terms with Apple and ship the adapters with the Apple logo exposed. We never heard back. This just proves that there are a lot of illegal activities going on out there. Just for those who don't know, when you buy Apple products from China, they are NOT sanctioned by Apple. In fact, they are illegal, What they do is painstakingly cover up the apple logo so that customs will not stop the shipment coming into the USA. The average buyer will not know that, and they just think it's part of the packaging. There are companies here that are buying those cables and also modifying them and selling them as 'Recycled', or 'refurbished'.
Bottom line: if it's cheaper than 79.00 (cable or car adapter), then they are knock-offs(these cables have notable imperfections or cheap material), or somehow lifted out the back door of factories.
We pride ourselves in being an ethical company, and wish to be there for the long haul for our customers, unlike some have have been sued by Apple.
Mikegyver.com
Magsafe cables for Hyperjuice batteries
We are getting increasing emails about using magsafe cables with HyperJuice batteries. (as you may know they have been sued by Apple for illegally making/selling magsafe cables-Yes Making, selling grey/black market MagSafes, and as a result their alternative are huge boxes).
We are happy say that our magsafes will work just fine with their battery, or any other batteries on the market as long as the power specs are good.
There is one area we need to cover. The Apple brick adapter. As you might have read elsewhere in our website, the Apple brick adapter does not charge anything else EXCEPT the Macbook. The adapter 'talks' to the Macbook before it'll turn on. (While another chip in the Magsafe tip tells the Macbook to start charging) there is a way to 'trick' the adapter, and we are now offering charging from Apple Brick adapters.
Please comment or write us and lets know your support!
mikegyver.com
We are happy say that our magsafes will work just fine with their battery, or any other batteries on the market as long as the power specs are good.
There is one area we need to cover. The Apple brick adapter. As you might have read elsewhere in our website, the Apple brick adapter does not charge anything else EXCEPT the Macbook. The adapter 'talks' to the Macbook before it'll turn on. (While another chip in the Magsafe tip tells the Macbook to start charging) there is a way to 'trick' the adapter, and we are now offering charging from Apple Brick adapters.
Please comment or write us and lets know your support!
mikegyver.com
Saturday, January 12, 2013
Powering your device from small batteries or solar power
Hello,
From time to time, we get emails about using a small battery pack, perhaps about the size of an deck of cards to power their Macbooks. We also get similar emails about using solar panels about size of greeting card to power their Macbooks as well.
I'd like to address this and the power industry as a whole. Let me make it plain and simple.
It takes a lot to make power. There is absolutely no way to expect as small solar cell or a small battery to make your device essentially run indefinitely.
In fact I just saw a blog post come by saying he can make a car run on 100% electricity indefinitely! Unless he is talking a huge solar panel almost the size of an full size truck with just a cabin large enough for just one person scrunched in. He'll never be able to achieve the performance of todays cars! There is NO such thing is perpetual energy that you can actually use!
Let's not forget batteries. When was the last time you had a battery in any of your electronic device last forever? It will eventually wear out! And the cost of replacing that battery negate the whole point of saving money to begin with!
Case in point. Long time ago we used to own a golf cart. We kept replacing a battery cell almost every month! The golf cart ended up just sitting there, and we ended up using our lawn mower in place of our goft cart. Sure battery technology has gotten better today, but as battery technology gets better, it'll never compare to fuel (you think combustion technology stays still?).
Think about this, there'll never be a battery powered Boeing 777 in our lifetime.
Bottom line, please understand that the alternative energy is not what it is all made out to be. It is not a 1 to 1 replacement for todays energy.
Mikegyver.com
From time to time, we get emails about using a small battery pack, perhaps about the size of an deck of cards to power their Macbooks. We also get similar emails about using solar panels about size of greeting card to power their Macbooks as well.
I'd like to address this and the power industry as a whole. Let me make it plain and simple.
It takes a lot to make power. There is absolutely no way to expect as small solar cell or a small battery to make your device essentially run indefinitely.
In fact I just saw a blog post come by saying he can make a car run on 100% electricity indefinitely! Unless he is talking a huge solar panel almost the size of an full size truck with just a cabin large enough for just one person scrunched in. He'll never be able to achieve the performance of todays cars! There is NO such thing is perpetual energy that you can actually use!
Let's not forget batteries. When was the last time you had a battery in any of your electronic device last forever? It will eventually wear out! And the cost of replacing that battery negate the whole point of saving money to begin with!
Case in point. Long time ago we used to own a golf cart. We kept replacing a battery cell almost every month! The golf cart ended up just sitting there, and we ended up using our lawn mower in place of our goft cart. Sure battery technology has gotten better today, but as battery technology gets better, it'll never compare to fuel (you think combustion technology stays still?).
Think about this, there'll never be a battery powered Boeing 777 in our lifetime.
Bottom line, please understand that the alternative energy is not what it is all made out to be. It is not a 1 to 1 replacement for todays energy.
Mikegyver.com
Gone overboard backing up Data.
Hello,
Over the Christmas and New Year's, I struck up a conversation with a few people (on separate occasions) regarding backing up their data and syncing data across computers.
I'm actually surprised that a not whole lot of people back up their data (or a weak way of backing up), especially since we have pretty much gone totally digital in way of documents, music, ibooks, and especially pictures & videos
To some, this may seem overkill, but here's what we have setup.
I have a MacPro server that is in charge of backing and syncing everything across our network.
First we have time machine running backing up to a Drobo. So far, I've experienced 2 hard drives that failed on me, but due to nature of Drobo, I just replaced the drive and did not experience any down time at all. I highly recommend this drive!
Second, I have gone through numerous syncing utilities (Apple's home sync, goodsync, cronosync, synchronize Pro, and more I can't remember) I have also tried the online type backup and currently use things like dropbox, and bitcasa, but they don't really allow the full syncing of your whole home folder and they are really meant for sharing with friends. I have finally settled with Synk by decimus. This is the only program that I could find that allows you to sync the whole hard drive live. The idea is that I have 3 laptops on my network. I want the ability pick up any of my laptops and have everything with me. I also have synk running to an offsite online NAS drive locked up in a fireproof safe so that my data is not in the same place as the office, but still on the same property.
Finally, for further insurance, we use an online unlimited backup called CrashPlan. I've used others such as Carbonite, but it took 3 years to back up my whole hard drive whereas Crashplan did it in 3 months! Crashplan also has a bunch of nice options such as throttling your bandwidth during use, etc. All for cheaper then Carbonite (depending on the plan you purchase). I've looked at other online backup plans such as SugarSync, dropbox, but it seems that it's difficult to find unlimited backup. Bitcasa looks promising, but I still question how it'll work in the real life.
How about you? Are you as crazy as me? Any other backup plans that you use that are better then what we are using? Let me know!
Mikegyver.com
Over the Christmas and New Year's, I struck up a conversation with a few people (on separate occasions) regarding backing up their data and syncing data across computers.
I'm actually surprised that a not whole lot of people back up their data (or a weak way of backing up), especially since we have pretty much gone totally digital in way of documents, music, ibooks, and especially pictures & videos
To some, this may seem overkill, but here's what we have setup.
I have a MacPro server that is in charge of backing and syncing everything across our network.
First we have time machine running backing up to a Drobo. So far, I've experienced 2 hard drives that failed on me, but due to nature of Drobo, I just replaced the drive and did not experience any down time at all. I highly recommend this drive!
Second, I have gone through numerous syncing utilities (Apple's home sync, goodsync, cronosync, synchronize Pro, and more I can't remember) I have also tried the online type backup and currently use things like dropbox, and bitcasa, but they don't really allow the full syncing of your whole home folder and they are really meant for sharing with friends. I have finally settled with Synk by decimus. This is the only program that I could find that allows you to sync the whole hard drive live. The idea is that I have 3 laptops on my network. I want the ability pick up any of my laptops and have everything with me. I also have synk running to an offsite online NAS drive locked up in a fireproof safe so that my data is not in the same place as the office, but still on the same property.
Finally, for further insurance, we use an online unlimited backup called CrashPlan. I've used others such as Carbonite, but it took 3 years to back up my whole hard drive whereas Crashplan did it in 3 months! Crashplan also has a bunch of nice options such as throttling your bandwidth during use, etc. All for cheaper then Carbonite (depending on the plan you purchase). I've looked at other online backup plans such as SugarSync, dropbox, but it seems that it's difficult to find unlimited backup. Bitcasa looks promising, but I still question how it'll work in the real life.
How about you? Are you as crazy as me? Any other backup plans that you use that are better then what we are using? Let me know!
Mikegyver.com
Monday, January 7, 2013
iRemote mentioned at Mac Geek Gab!
We have been mentioned at The Mac Geek Gab again!
http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/podcast/macgeekgab-427
http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/podcast/macgeekgab-427
Sunday, January 6, 2013
Changes for the New Year!
Hello all,
Hope everyone had a Happy New Year.
For us, there will be some changes to our site. Instead of concentrating on Magsafe and such, I'll be looking at more coverage in technology as a whole. Of course, it'll still be Mac related, but does not have to be. The things that I'll be covering, I think will be unique to us and that it'll be very useful to you as well. Some the the things we do here (if you haven't already noticed) is a little unconventional, so I plan on taking that to the next level including some opinions (How's that for unusual?)
Hope everyone one who come here will enjoy!
Mike
Mikegyver.com
Hope everyone had a Happy New Year.
For us, there will be some changes to our site. Instead of concentrating on Magsafe and such, I'll be looking at more coverage in technology as a whole. Of course, it'll still be Mac related, but does not have to be. The things that I'll be covering, I think will be unique to us and that it'll be very useful to you as well. Some the the things we do here (if you haven't already noticed) is a little unconventional, so I plan on taking that to the next level including some opinions (How's that for unusual?)
Hope everyone one who come here will enjoy!
Mike
Mikegyver.com
Repost: Magsafe Macbook Boat adapter
This Blog post has been reposted since we've been getting questions about this again lately.
We worked with you to make customer magsafe Boat adapters for those who wish to have their adapter behind a patch panel along with a long magsafe extension coming from the patch panel.
The often asked question is which adapter is best for boats, we recommend the Lind adapters. The are durable, and is intended for heavy use.
Note: there are some DC adapter that do not work well with deep cycles batteries.
We worked with you to make customer magsafe Boat adapters for those who wish to have their adapter behind a patch panel along with a long magsafe extension coming from the patch panel.
The often asked question is which adapter is best for boats, we recommend the Lind adapters. The are durable, and is intended for heavy use.
Note: there are some DC adapter that do not work well with deep cycles batteries.
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