Month: October 2009

Things I have done to fix the ‘Bluetooth: Not Available’ error on Mac OS X

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These are all the things that I have tried to fix the ‘Bluetooth: Not Available’ error on my MacBook:

  1. Reset the System Management Controller (SMC)
  2. Reset the PRAM and NVRAM
  3. Repaired disk permissions
  4. Deleted Bluetooth preference files from my Home and System Library folders

And none of them have worked. Looks like my MacBook’s Bluetooth controller is dead. Great.

Update: It’s working again. Apparently all I needed to do was turn the computer off (at the plug), leave it overnight and turn it on again the following morning. How bizarre.

The RealPlayer Expirement

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n light of the news that the BBC is abandoning RealMedia for its live streaming and listen again services, I’ve decided to uninstall RealPlayer from my Mac. Because, as far as I can remember, the only web site that I visit that still uses RealMedia was the BBC’s site and all of the streams that I used to listen to or watch have been replaced with Flash or Windows Media.

I’m therefore going to see how long I can survive without RealPlayer. Hopefully, it’ll be 50 MB of program files which I’ll never need to re-install. While the Mac version is far less annoying than its Windows counterpart, it feels strangely liberating to be rid of it.

Blackpool

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The tower

I’ve spent the past two weekends in Blackpool. Here’s one photo of the illuminations along the promenade. The full set is here.

Despite the fact I’ve always lived in the north of England, until now I had never visited Blackpool. I still have a lot to see as both trips were just flying visits. However, hopefully, I will be going back there quite a bit in the coming months.