Category Archives: Personal

So, I put the firmware password in my Mac and the I forgot it ?

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Well, not really forgotten, the thing is that I was unable to access to recovery or boot to another disk (like the recovery in time machine disks) because the Mac have the firmware password.

Why a firmware password?. Well, to protect your machine in case of being stolen/lost. The password will stop the boot process if the boot disk is not the one that was present when the password was set. Also stop booting to recovery/USB/Super Drive.

This firmware plus FileVault (disk encryption) will prevent getting your data or use your mac without permission. 

There is also a second firmware password set when you use “Find my Mac” which locks your computer and asks for a 4 digit password at boot as soon as you report your mac as lost/stolen in iCloud.

If you loose your firmware password then you’ll have to go to an Apple authorized specialist with proof of ownership, then they can remove the password, but in my case that means 6 hours driving to the nearest apple support specialist ?.

I used all the passwords that I remember, none seemed to work… until I realized that the password was entered with a Spanish keyboard layout and the password entry have no choice over the layout, English only. So the special (nonascii) characters didn’t match.


I had to discover the keys to write the password in English layout and taraaaa!!

I didn’t removed the password, but now I know why it wasn’t working.

The layout thing.. I hope it helps you if you are in the same situation as I was. 

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I think I found the good one

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I tried spark a while ago, when it was just for Gmail, I didn’t like it and never used, then falles in love with CloudMagic until they decided to super rise the price.

I started to use AirMail, was promising until today that I wanted to share an image via email and AirMail wasn’t there in the share activities. Then installed Spark and here we are, sending this from spark.

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How many windows devices do you have?

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In my office, how many computers runs Unix or Linux.

  • Two computers
    • One runs Linux
    • One runs macOS
  • Three cellphones
    • Two runs Android (4.3 and 5.0.1)
    • One runs iOS 9
  • One Tablet
    • iOS 9
  • PS3
  • One (good old) Linksys WRG54G
    • Linux

If I count all my house devices, I need to add two more iPads, one iPhone and one Apple TV.  Windows free home ?.

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Do we really need all those networks ?

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As you know, there is a battle in social networks, in my opinion there are too many, which is good and is also bad. The good part is that there are plenty of options, there are social networks for whatever you need to do, the most common: twitter, Facebook, instagram, snapchat. There are other less popular but also quite important, like LinkedIn, twitch or Flickr and not because they are not great platforms, but they have a niche.

So, my question, do we really need all those social networks?

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Incipio OffGrid battery case

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I bought this battery-case last friday, and it works pretty good, it has 3000mAh, which gives me 1.74 battery time (if I don’t use the phone while charging).

Reasons to have a battery pack?. Well, I don’t like to be on the bottom of the battery, call me paranoid but I just don’t like the idea of having 0 power on a device (this happens with my laptop too). And knowing the iPhone has a 1715mAh battery getting it close to discharge is quite easy.

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