Ok so I switched from a PC to a Macbook and I'm awaiting the arivval of a Blackberry 8700g. The question I have is does anyone know where to get the cz tuning software for a Mac? Also I know you can link a palm or pda to a cz to tune it but anyone know if this will work with the blackberry?

Thanks in advance for the help

 

is the operating system of the handheld unit you are getting the same as the palm?

 

no its the blackberry operating system. I don't know exactly what the system is but i know its not palm or windows its specific to blackberrys. but i think i can load the e-manage software onto it and it has a usb connection.

 

Out of curiosity, what was your purpose in switching to Apple?

 

I bought the mid level MacBook the day it came out with a student discount (its the white one which is exactly the same as the black one minus 20gigs and $200). I got it because macs don't viruses, it's small, lightweight so i can carry it to class, has the intel duo so if i want to i can install XP and choose between running that or OSX. Its also has alot of other useful things with multimedia i can use(and im studying business i still find it handy) Cool little things like the bluetooth sync, built in camera for video conferencing and alot more...check apple.com

Apple should pay me for the amount of times i've reccomended a mac

 

I was about to start finding people to try and convert all of this stuff for Mac. But I wouldn't have the money to pay them. o_O;

 

well if the software is made to run on a palm or windows platform and you have acompletly different platform......

 

maybe we should ask maurice....idk how many people out there with a cz have macs but if there are enough maybe he could think of a solution. and isnt the emange software we're using straight from greddy anyways? Shouldnt they have it configured for macs?

 

Dont have virus? wrong. They have less? yes. The reason? Cuz no one use Mac, no coder will bother to code something that so little people use.

Also another problem is that Apple people does not know how to code. They can carry a 30 years ago Unix bug to MacOSX. I wonder why. and its easy as hell to break the OS. not to mention all the freezes when you try to Kill a task.

Everyone defines "lightweight" in a different way. I dont need to carry my Laptop around, but I like my 64-bit and dual boot windows/redhat. So ...

and you better becareful when you use your ibook. since lots of them overheat and caught a fire.

theres no cz software for mac, like I said, no one will code stuff that so little people use.

 

If you install windows on your new mac, you can run the greddy turning software.

You might also want to look into virtualization software.

 

As far as using a palm to tune, you can buy a canscan that has palm OS software...

http://proxy.searchirc.com/turbo/canscan_pda.wmv

 

Anyway, you can run Windows on the MacBook for stuff like this.

The rest of the time you can run OS X and actually use your computer, instead of spending your time being a security adminisrator/ troubleshooter / registry wizard and all those other joys.

 

You should try Ubuntu.

 

You might want to look into Parallels for OSX. It will let you run Windows in a app within OSX so you don't have to reboot when you want to run your scanning software.

It's probably the most straight forward solution, and would run you another $50 or so.

That, however, is if the problem is just running the scanning software on your laptop. Sounds like your more immediate concern is will the CZ software run on a Blackberry. If it does, then you can worry about getting the Blackberry to run properly on your Mac.



nycgps I'm assuming no one pays you any money for your computer opinions. If they do, you should issue a refund immediately.

 

the best approach is to check the software manufacturer's website and/ or contact them and see if they have a mac version of the software u want to use. if they don't, then you'll have to either (a) run it from a pc or (b) install a virtual version of the windows OS on your mac and then install the pc version of the software u want to use.

to my knowledge, Parallels, is probably the safest & most reliable way to run windows on an intel mac at the moment. it is a type of VM ware, aka hardware emulation software. (Virtual PC used to be the best vm ware for running windows on a mac. but, microsoft hasn't released a compatible version for the new apple hardware yet, and they haven't provided an ETA.)

hardware emulation software emulates the hardware environment of a pc in the form of an application- so that you can install a pc-compatible OS as an application running within that emulator program. (it's similar to how Mac OS 9 runs within Mac OS X.) installing bootcamp and installing windows "natively" on a mac, however, is purely experimental and not a reliable, production-use solution. and, 99% authoritative mac publications highly recommend against doing this- unless u r just doing it for fun and don't mind accidentally ******* up ur computer- since it's "experimental."

with hardware emulation software, such as Parallels, typically the worst u can do is corrupt the application and have to reinstall that program itself. it will not take down your OS as a whole, and that's why it's safer.

however, some pc programs don't always run reliable within a hardware emulated environment. therefore, the only way to know is to try it out.

<whew> all that, and i get to show off my beautiful icon. cheers!

 

Is parallels the program which make a screen within osx that you can pull up which has windows? And the blackberry works seamlessy with the mac they made a program you can get from pocketmac.com which lets you use pda's and blackberrys through isync. My concern with the blackberry is will i be able to move the tuning software onto it

 

Yeah, Parallels allows you to run Windows OS within a window in OSX. Since Apple is using x86 hardware now, the speed is about 80+% of what it would be natively. (People claim 90% or more, but you need to make some changes to the swap disk settings and how RAM is handeled first.)

The problem you're going to have is does the CZ software work with a Blackberry. Since Blackberry's use their own OS, that's not really a sure thing. I suppose if nothing else you can get the Windows version of the CZ software and just run it within Parallels on your laptop. Wouldn't be as slick as with a PDA, but might be easier to program on the fly as the screen will show you a lot more data.

 

^^ yeah im more concerned about loading the data onto the mac but i'll look into parallels. The only reason i wanted it on my blackberry is so that i could reload the map i have saved every once in a while. I randomly reset the ecu to keep the cel off(due to the midpipe) and when i do that i like to reload the maps incase the car adjusted or something...

 

Sorry, not to pick a fight, but you're unfortunately wrong about most of your statements here.

First off, there are currently no true viruses for OS X. A true virus being something that can work independently of the user performing a whole bunch of actions to help it along. If you're familiar with UNIX, you'd understand why this is.

Secondly, that tired "Nobody even bothers to write viruses for the small percentage of computers out there that are macs," is completely weak. Don't you think with Apple parading around saying they don't get viruses, any virus coder would LOVE to be the first to publicly say they've made one? Besides, last I checked Apple computers are somewhere around 8% of the pc's out there, which still puts them in the millions.

You say that Apple cannot code- what operating system are you comparing this to? Surely not Windows, the mother of all legacy code. Last time I checked, Linux is pretty buggy itself, and really is useless to the majority of people out there who just want to use a computer for convenience, and really don't want to learn about permissions and shells, etc.

"you better becareful when you use your ibook. since lots of them overheat and caught a fire." You're an idiot. There have been 43 recorded laptop fires in the past five years. In most of the cases, the users were found to be using the computer beyond their normal operating limits (i.e. wrapping a plugged-in and powered-on computer in wrapping paper overnight). That's 43 cases out of the millions upon millions of laptops sold since 1991. The vast majority of those cases were p.c.'s (you know, dells, hps, compaqs). Maybe you were mistakenly referring to that dell notebook that caught flames at a computer show a couple weeks ago

Perhaps you should stop bashing on this guy's computer and maybe do some research before you start spouting your great knowledge of computers.

 

Armaant, I don't think you'll be able to involve your blackberry in this at all. They use closed software to do a pre-defined list of operations. They are pretty much dedicated communication devices, whereas something like a pocketpc would have the chance to upload and change whatever you want. Your best bet would be using your macbook with a usb scan-tool. I haven't looked into this all that much, so I can't recommend any particular software, if any that is out there for mac OBD-II. I would recommend parallels or at the very least dual-booting windows.

 

btw, don't buy something just because it has an ODBII connector. You will need a product that uses the CAN protocol to function with the RX-8.