First, I am always happy to answer emails and if I somehow missed to do so it’s just because I direct all my mail to a single account and things get lost sometimes.

Second, I have not been very active on this blog or working on updating my apps, because I’ve been busy with university stuff and also a part time job as an iOS developer. In a way, these things are really great because I learn alot of new stuff and come up with great ideas to improve my apps.

Third, this website needs, and will get, a makeover. Not only design-wise, but also add and consolidate alot of information. It also needs a better system for discussion and questions. I’m working with a great webdesigner friend of mine to achieve this.

Finally, I also want to give a little FAQ about Trim Enabler, of some questions that have been asked alot in comments and through email:

Q: Do I need to start Trim Enabler on boot? What happens if I remove the app?

A: Trim Enabler patches a native OSX Trim driver, which works in the background even when the app is closed or removed. This patch is reset on system updates, so it might be a good idea to keep the app however.

Q: I can’t activate Trim, the slider bounces back to Off!

A: This is a bug that is kind of rare, but I have gathered reports and data necessary to fix it and I am planning on having this fixed for next update.

Q: My S.M.A.R.T data is showing wierd numbers! 1378912741 errors or powered hours!

A: The error count (and some other s.m.a.r.t stats) is tricky to get right for all drives, because some SSD list that value in decimals, some in hexadecimals. (and some don’t list the value at all). So the error can show in millions when it is not. You can see this issue in Windows s.m.a.r.t tools also. Don’t worry, your SSD is not about to catch fire. I am looking into better ways to list this data.

So I gave it a shot to compile for 32/64-bit Snow Leopard and it went pretty straightforward and seems to work well!

You can download the 32/64 bit version here:
http://groths.org/trimenabler/32bitTE.zip

Today I got an email from Kai, one of many Trim Enabler users. He pointed to a Macbidouille article about how suddently in 10.8.1, all the terminal scripts and copycat software for enabling Trim, had stopped working.

After a quick investigation, I was able to verify that all these solutions had breaked because of a simple change in the OSX Trim driver.

This is why Trim Enabler is superior to these alternatives. It still works fine in 10.8.1.

Since the 2.0 release, Trim Enabler is much more intelligent in regards to patching then these scripts. These other scripts and softwares don’t have the necessary error protection, and some even force apply the patch upon every reboot, without a possibility for updates.

Nvidia press release

Release October, for $2,249 :O

I guess it’s good for the super pro’s. I’ve never been a fan of the Quadro cards, to me it has always seemed so much of the Quadro advantage was just firmware/driver, and the desktop cards came pretty close if flashed with Quadro firmwares.

However, with this card we will probably get EFI firmware that we can use to flash desktop GK104 cards, like GTX 670, to work in Mac Pro with bootscreen (it works out of the box without bootscreen though)

Upon public demand (and just generally thinking it’s a good idea) I have decided to open source Freya.

Freya is my biggest project yet and there is alot of stuff that people can contribute towards. And University is starting again next week so I will be limited alot by that.
You don’t even have to be a programmer to contribute, just stuff like custom made toolbar icons would be awesome!