MacBook Pro RAM and HDD upgrade after Mavericks update

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WARNING: THIS ARTICLE/BLOG IS BASED ON PERSONAL EXPERIENCE AND ANY PRICE STATED IN THIS ARTICLE MAY NOT BE UP TO DATE. KEEP IN MIND THAT THIS MIGHT NOT BE THE RIGHT SOLUTION, SO READ BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING. AND AS ALWAYS, MAKE SURE YOU HAVE ADULTS PERMISSION AND ASSISTANTS IF NEEDED.

It is another day, sitting in my room and using my mid 2010 MacBook Pro. It was all good, until Apple came up with new OS X, called "Mavericks." I was happy, honestly. Mainly because I was tired of using the "Mountain Lion." It was kind the old and it was time for something new. Mavericks promised many new features, such as speeding up applications etc. So, I updated it. After about 2-3 hours, my MacBook Pro was updated to new OS X Mavericks. It was working flawlessly smooth and fast. 

(Side note to other users trying to update your OS X to Mavericks, the reason it took 2-3 hours was because I had my mechanical drive upgraded to size of 500 GB, so it was not SSD (Solid State Drive). Of course, new upgraded HDD was twice faster than my default drive, which Apple had install (250 GB). For your information, I updated the MacBook Air and took about 30 - 45 mins to finish and it had SSD.)

Anyway, after finished installing OS X Mavericks, i start working my way to install all the application that i usually use. These are normal apps, such as Microsoft word document, Adobe Photoshop and other Apple based software. This was time consuming operation and to make things worst, after all the hard work, my computer became slow. The RAM would barely have 500 Mb free space and i have not even open Photoshop, just Google Chrome Browser and one other small application. I started freeing up space from my RAM, constantly and it would not do the trick. So, I turned to Apple Support community and turns out that it was not only me. Keep in mind that i have only 4 Gb RAM. With much reading and not help at all, I turned  what I thought was best idea. Upgrading my RAM to 8 Gb. I understand it is costly upgrade, about $100 for 2x4Gb Corsair RAM. The reason behind my upgrade approach was mainly with new OS X Mavericks. Because, what Mavericks does, was that it pre-opens all the application in your computer and waits until you use one of them. Of course, the RAM is essential on application's operation, since it is needed to open application and load its information. It is computer 101 lesson. This is the reason your MacBook Pro is slow. Well, positive side of this is that it gives the applications instant response. If you check Apple Store website, you will see the new MacBook Pro's come in 8 GB minimum. Top Tech tip for you is to first download Memory Clean from App Store and see if your computer has this slow problem. 90% chance that you will have this problem if you have 4 GB RAM. Good things about the RAM changing is that it is easy. No software require, just open the back of your MacBook Pro and swap the old ones with new ones.

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How to Update Samsung Galaxy Note 2 to Android 4.3 Jelly Bean

Ok, Now let get into Phones. If you been around for long then you have already released that I mostly do Computer How Tos. But, when I say Phone, I mean Android. Please do not get mad if you are OSx fans. To be honest, I , myself use to have iPhones. In fact, I still use my Macbook Pro and I am still happy about it. However, Android gives me opportunities that I couldn't have with iPhones. Limitations on Android devices are less. In fact, you can customize almost anything on Android, whereas on iPhone, you pretty have a stop point. Now, let get into our main topic and that is How to Update Samsung Galaxy Note 2 to Android 4.3 Jelly Bean.  Keep in mind that Android 4.3 Jelly Bean is still being released around the globe and You may or may not be able to update your device.

Step 1: First thing we must do is to download Samsung Kies. This is the link where you can download Kies http://www.samsung.com/us/kies/. 

Step 2: After installation of Kies and updates are completed, you open the preference menu and there you will have three taps.

 On the three taps choose Update 

and make sure you have Notify when new updates available box is checked.   

After finishing all the steps, you take you Samsung Galaxy Note 2 and connect it to Kies via USB cable. DO NOT CONNECT WITH VIA WiFi, it won't work. Then you will will wait, if the Android 4.3 Jelly Bean is available for you phone, it will ask you if you want to update your phone's firmware to new one, simply click Yes and continues to installation menu. PLEASE DO NOT UNPLUG YOUR PHONE UNTIL EVERYTHING IS FINISHED. After these step, your phone pretty much will do everything by itself and all you will have to do is wait and have patients then you will have you phone updated to Android 4.3 Jelly Bean.

                           

PS3 Super Slim Hard Drive Upgrade

Hello Everyone, Once again Tech_Support101 brings to you new tutorial on How replace PS3 super slim Hard Drive. The tutorial will be posted soon. So keep in touch with my blog. And one more thing, I will put more pictures on steps. Thank you.

Windows 7 WiFi Problem Solutions With Apple Boothcamp Partition

Best valued electronics dealsIf you are one of Apple Mac users, whether iMac or MacBook Pro or any other Macs, then you problem came across annoying problem with Windows 7 Boothcamp partition. Either you don't see you WiFi SSID name or it just says unable to connect to WiFi. Well, Today I will do my best to explain my findings about this problem. I came across this problem many times and all I have heard that I need to install windows files that comes with Boothcamp. Even though, I have done all the installment, I could not see my WiFi. I know you are probably thinking that my WiFi SSID broadcast was off. Answer to this is No! I have check everything. I even uninstalled my network adapters and installed it back on. It seem like nothing would work, until I got my WiFi SSID showing up on my WiFi menu. KEEP IN MIND THAT THESE SOLUTIONS MAY NOT WORK FOR MANY OF YOU, SO PLEASE DO NOT BLAME ME AND BE CAUTIOUS WHILE DOING THESE STEPS AND MAKE SURE YOU HAVE ADULT PERMISSION AND ASSISTANTS ON THESE STEPS. THANK YOU.

Solution 1

One of the thing I did was to add my WiFi manually in Network and Sharing Center. To navigate to this menu, simply click on Start menu then Control Panel then Network and Internet and click on Network And Sharing Center. At the bottom of the Network And Sharing Center(NSC), there is Set up new connection, there choose the right model of internet connection and put all the WiFi information as asked. After finishing click continue then close it. Go back to NSC and on the left side panel there is something called Manage Wireless Networks. There you will see the network name you just added double click on it and then close it all down. If this does not connect to WiFi, please go to Solution 2.

Solution 2

Now the most helpful part, This part consists of Ethernet cable. Simple take you computer to your router and plug the both sides in dedicated places. One to end of router and other to you computer. Now, wait little bit until you get connection, then open browser and type the IP address of your router. Make sure you have connection, because it won't work without a connection. The IP address of router is 192.168.1.1 most of the time, if changed make sure you have the right address and go to WiFi interface. There, simply find the WiFi setting that has channel numbers. This is where you will change your channel. Channel is just the frequency that router operates. Make sure you choose right channel with strong signal after that click on WiFi menu on Windows 7 and refresh until you see you WiFi SSID name. If not change the channel numbers until you find the right one that shows you WiFi SSID name on WiFi menu. Keep refreshing. 

P.S As for channels,  to know the best channel in your area, Please read my Top 10 Apps blog on my blog, there will be an app that will help you to determine this. Thank you and hope this helps.

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MacBook Pro Hard Dive Replacement

It has been few days since I have changed my 13 inch MacBook Pro with 2.4 Ghz and 4Gb RAM mid-2010. And to be honest, it started showing some affect. Before I go details explaining all the specifications and result, I must say that all the product brands that will be mention in this blog/article are not owned by me, nor was sponsored by. And I will not be responsible if you damage or destroy your hard drive or computer. This is only for review and instructional purposes only.  PLEASE BE CAUTIOUS REPLACING ANY PARTS OF COMPUTER. MAKE SURE NO ELECTRICITY HAS BEEN PLUGGED IN WHILE REPLACING THE HARD DRIVE OR ANY OTHER PART OF COMPUTER. 

So, what does it take to replace MacBook Pro's hard drive. Well, before buying hard drive make sure you have all the right screw drivers. Apple computers are not easily unscrewed computers. Find the tools first then proceed. As for me, I did little research about the hard drive types and screw drivers. My first choice of Hard Drive was of course Western Digital, WD has been famously known for their hard drive. After doing some benchmarks, I would give the WD Hard Drive 8/10. The drive is quite and uses less power. Furthermore, I have also bought set of screwdrivers from "www.amazon.com," it is cheaper and has nor selection of type. The main screw driver that was used to open the back lead of 13 inch MacBook Pro was "Philips 00" screwdrivers. The only thing to be careful is that back lead of 13 inch MacBook Pro has three long screws. So, know where those three long screws go. After opening, all the hardware will be visibility. Note: make sure you don't have positive static charge in your body. So touch any metal objects near you to have negative charge. If you have seen Hard Drive before then you will be able to spot it. If you haven't seen one, it looks like rectangle box with 2.5 inch thickness, most of time it is located left bottom corner. One of the sides of hard drive will have black colored line and it will have two screws. This is where you will need torx screw driver. After unscrewing it, all you have to do is to lift the hard drive and it will come off. Be careful, because there is thin ribbon like cable called SATA cable. Now, all you have to do is to unplug it and separate it. One of thing you will notice that Hard Drive will have two screws on each side just use torx screw to unscrew and screw it back to same places on new hard drive you will install. Put the new drive in same place as the old one and put all screws back on. Don't forget the black harness that was next to drive, which kept the drive from moving around. After screwing everything in, put back the back cover and screw it in right place. Remember, there is three long screw that must be in right place. After finished, plug the power source and insert the CD or external drive or even flash drive containing the Apple Operating system, turn it on and keep holding the ALT key until you see bunch of drive to booth from. Choose the rigth disk and continue with Apple operating System's guide to install the OS. Thank you and if you have question please leave a comment and I will answer as much as I could. Last two pictures are the differences of speed between my old Apple Seagate 5200rpm with 256 GB and New Western Digitals 7200rpm with 500GB Black scorpion.

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Top 10 useful apps in Android devices

Hello everyone!
It is Tech_Support101. It has been long time since I have post anything. So, bare with me.
Today, I am going to talk about slightly different topic. Since I am big Android user, I will talk about Android app. This post will be named "Top 10 useful apps in Android devices". The most apps that I will talk about are safe and ads free application. So, The ads won't bother you.
I just want to say I do not owned this applications and nor was sponsored by. This post is designed to be educational and or instructional purpose only.
#10 - AntiVirus = Free
It is a great app with easy to use and with full protection. It even alerts you when you download apps that has ads in them. It gives you dynamic user interface with a lot of setting option.
#09-Magnifier = Free
The apps name stands for itself. This app gives you enormous amount of zoom with clear picture. It also allows you to turn on the phone's LED flash light and image sharpener for better shot.
#08 - DailyHoroscope = Free
Do you worry about what will happen tomorrow or do you worry about love ones life path. Well, the answer is here. With this app, you can check you horoscope and get accurate results
#07 - Printer Control = Free
Do you have WiFi HP print at home? Do you wish you could print right through you phone without e-print? Do not worry, with Printer Control app, you can print anything or even scan any documents right off you Android phone. As long as you are within the WiFi signal. After all it uses Wifi to print.
#06 - Wifi Analyzer = Free
Most common questions with Wifi is the signal strength. Of course, this app won't boost you signal, but it will give you tips, what you can do to make it better. This app designed with different ways to measure your Wifi signal. For instance, channel rating gives you tips in what channels (1-14) are best for you based on location. This is one of few examples of this app. If you have any questions or want tutorial on Tech_Support101 Youtube channel, please let me know.
#05 - Fing = Free
This is a another network analyzing tool app. This app allows you to see who is on your network. Of course, this app works with Wifi. It has other useful functions such as; scanning TCP services, Trceroute and etc.
#04 - All-In-One Toolbox = Free
This apps allows you to maintain you apps, Battery info and as well as Memory info.
#03 - AutoCAD 360 = Free
To all the AutoCAD fans and users, this app gives you freedom to maintain you projects. With the new update, AutoCAD 360 was given a new dynamic and vivid look. If any help needed, please leave a comment.
#02 - Camscanner = Free
This app saved me many times, whether I was scanning a photo or a document, it gave me freedom to edit anything within the app with great tools. Especially, all the phablet users out there, you can combine this with Printer control and have your whole computer in you hand.
#01 - Quickoffice = Free
This app has recently announced by the Google as a Free app. It combines Word, Excel and Power point in one app.

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