After upgrading to Lion the one thing that has been most frustrating is that my Bluetooth headset doesn’t work anymore. It syncs up with my MacBook Pro, but it doesn’t send audio from the mic nor does it playback audio. I’m using a VXI BlueParrott B250-XT.

I’m referring to the instructions on this page to resolve the issue which are:

1. Don’t have Power Management configuration issue causing bluetooth option to not be present.
2. Unplugged USB devices
3. Ran Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility and ran a ‘Repair Disk Permissions’ on my primary drive.
4. Deleted user preference files for Bluetooth (~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Bluetooth and ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Bluetooth.plist )
5. Reset PRAM
6. Reset Power Management System
7. Opened Bluetooth Explorer -> Utilities Menu -> Modify Software and Device Configuration -> Checked:
• ‘Recant’ Connected Apple HID Devices
• ‘Full Factory Reset’ connected Apple HID devices
• Delete link keys from the Bluetooth module
• Delete global bluetooth preference file (/L/P/com.apple.Bluetooth.plist)
• Remove all favorite devices
• Unconfigure all ‘configured’ devices
• Restart the Bluetooth daemon (‘blued’) process

This all did not resolve my issue. I then thought to myself, well…the device is pairing and connecting. Perhaps it’s a sound issue. I then proceeded to find some sort of forum post or article explaining how to reset the sound/audio settings which might be corrupted since upgrading to OS X Lion…. I’ll update this post once I troubleshoot further.

This was taken from GoodUser.info

1. Create a folder on your desktop called myst4
2. Inside this folder make two more folders, one called Myst4_1 and one called Myst4_2
3. Insert disk 1 and open the terminal
4. Type cd /Volumes/Myst4_1
5. Type cp -Rv * ~/Desktop/myst4/Myst4_1 – this will take a while
6. Type cd /
7. Eject disk 1 and insert disk 2
8. Type cd /Volumes/Myst4_2
9. Type cp -Rv * ~/Desktop/myst4/Myst4_2 – this will take a while
10. Type cd ~/Desktop/myst4/Myst4_1
11. Type unzip Macinstaller.jar
12. Type java run – The installer will load
13. Accept all the defaults, keep clicking next
14. When prompted for disk 2, navigate to Desktop/myst4/Myst4_2 and click open
15. The application is now installed.
16. In the terminal type ‘cd /Ubisoft/MystIV’, press enter, then run ‘chmod -R 777 myst4.app’
17. Run the game by opening Myst4 under the Macintosh HD/Ubisoft/MystIV directory.

The installation instructions above worked like a charm, however running the program is the new issue now. Everytime I try to execute it, it crashes. It appears that there isn’t any fix other than to install using the installer from here, which uses the PC version with Cider….which has worked perfectly fine so far.

I have an iMac, which came with a remote controller for use with FrontRow, a multimedia viewer which uses a 10-foot user interface, and came packaged with Mac OSX when I bought the computer. I’ve been using Hulu Desktop for a while with my Mac now and it works great. It ties into my Hulu account and lets me setup subscriptions to the shows that I like, so I can quickly navigate to view the latest Lost episode of season 6, or even watch clips of the latest Saturday Night Live episodes.

I just sit back in my bed and watch without having to be face-to-face with the computer screen, which is great because I’m face-to-face with a computer screen all day at work. Sure, I should be out jogging or something, but if I want to unwind with a comedy on-demand, this is great. Oh yeah, I don’t have cable also….I can’t justify paying for cable and Internet at the same time, so this is a great. I can’t wait for all the networks to come onboard and offer subscriptions to view shows online, with very minimal commercial interuptions.

If you don’t own a Mac, don’t think that you’re left out. The Hulu Desktop FAQ states “…Hulu Desktop will work with Apple and Windows Media Center remotes. Remotes that are compatible with Windows XP and Vista can be purchased at most electronics retailers.”

So I installed the latest sound driver from Dell.com for the integrated sound card and still after rebooting it sucked. Also when I start the computer up in the morning, I would have to wait like 3 minutes at least for all the startup programs to load. Nothing else would open until this was done.

So anyway, I searched for a solution to this issue and found this post:

http://www.softwaretipsandtricks.com/forum/hardware-problems/29157-choppy-sound-dell-dimension-3000-a.html

It turns out that the Primary IDE controller in Windows XP was set to use some sort of PIO mode to communicate with the hard drive on the computer, as opposed to DMA mode. DMA stands for Direct Memory Access, and is totally more efficient than the PIO mode, Programmed Input-Output, where the central processor transfers data byte for byte or word for word through your system to the other components (like your sound card).

My computer runs blazing fast now in comparison to how it was running before. I’m so glad I checked into this. If you have a Dell Dimension 3000 and it’s running like crap, definitely try this.

Like many other people before her, she’s pressed the ‘Hide’ button for someone, then realized it was a mistake…but couldn’t find out how to unhide them.

To add someone back to your Facebook news feed, simply scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the ‘Edit Options’ link for your news feed.

After you’ve done this, simply click on the ‘Add to News Feed’ button to add updates regarding one of your friends, or other pages, back to your Facebook news feed.

I thought that perhaps Selenium wasn’t compatible with version 3 of Firefox, but this isn’t the case. The Selenium website says ‘Firefox 2+’ for browsers running on Linux.

The error I was receiving when I would run a test was:


10:46:19.778 INFO - Preparing Firefox profile...
Error: no display specified


After a bunch of research and Googling online, it turned out I just needed to run this before I started my Selenium server:

export DISPLAY=:0

I hope this saves someone else some time.

Further investigation revealed that someone has reported the following:

This bug is still existent in 4.0.249.30. It seems to happen randomly, and can be fixed
without exiting the tab or browser by right clicking the Windows task bar, going to
properties, then simply pressing OK.

I tested this myself by right-clicking on my Windows task bar, then selecting ‘Properties’.

I then simply press the ‘OK’ button.

After this I refreshed my page, and whala! The check boxes re-appeared.

After installing and configuring this plugin, I went through my site and refreshed a couple pages, only to find out that the javascript needed for the analytics was not being included in the HTML as I expected. I tried to briefly search for help on this, but I didn’t find anything.

It turns out that you have to be logged out of WordPress for this to display within the code. It makes sense, you don’t want your statistics to tell you about your traffic on your own website, you want to know the stats on REAL visitors. I hope this tip helps save someone some time.