Fix facebook video on MacOS 10.5.8

Got a friend call me all the way from singapore. Complain that his niece macbook unable to play video on facebook. After getting more info from him, found out that she has a old mid 2007 macbook with only 1 gig ram and running on 10.5.8.

Looks like new flash player was not compatible with the OS. Hence ask him to download chrome and play facebook video. Then he told me new chrome unable to run on it either.

After do some search with my friend google, too bad older version of chrome is no where to be found. So I decide to dig the last workable version of flash player for 10.5.8.

Here is the link


http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions/




This forum discussed where all the version of adobe flash player being archive and where to get it.

Remove the flashplayer from /library/internet plug-ins. Then run flashplayer installer. Relaunch safari and wolla!

Once again, mission accomplished. Thanks adobe for keeping the old software handy with them.

Enable Remote Disc (Drive Sharing) On Any Mac

I was checking out on a friend's macmini, found an interesting feature on it. It has a remote disk in device section on left side of finder window. And my MacBookPro doesn't has. So I did a search on google on how to hack it to display on my MBP too. And I found this blog how to tweak it to display on my MBP.

http://www.mactricksandtips.com/2009/09/enable-remote-disc-drive-sharing-on-any-mac.html

Why not all mac just display the remote disc on the finder window? Reason is simple, because my MBP has a super drive built in. Apple really hide unnecessary stuff from user to avoid confusion. But since this feature is built in, why not just leave it there. Users may need it just in case the built in drive broken.