Just a quick post here. Geekbench is quite popular tools for benchmarking the processor released by Primate Labs and this tiny program is available in cross-platform for Linux, Mac, Windows, Android and even iOS. They also provide benchmark database for users to compare their scores with other users. This is my result; good enough but not that powerful to do extensive video editing for professional post production.


Geekbench is a paid app but free trial is available with restriction where you cannot run the 64-bit benchmark.

After about two months using my Mac, I suddenly felt that my Mac is running slower. Its not that slow like Windows, but it's not as fast as the first day I'm using it. Actually I can tell that this drop in performance will probably caused by my SSD because i never trim it since the first use.

I have a Kingston SSDNow V200+ installed in my Mac mini and TRIM is not supported because this is an after market SSD and Apple only support TRIM for the SSDs come preinstalled in the Mac.

This problem however is no more a big deal since there are several third party apps that can enable trim for after market SSD just like mine. I chose an app from Oscar Groth called Trim Enabler. This app has reached version 3.1.3 at the point of this entry written and it works nicely and I really recommend it.

After installing this app while still not turning it on, I ran a benchmark for my SSD and really shocked with the result. Refer the image below:

This result shows how bad is my SSD's performance and this is unacceptable. No wonder my Mac mini ran noticeably slow. So, I decided to run the patch to make my SSD trim-able. After applying this patch, you'll need to restart your Mac. Then again, I run the benchmark and here's the result:

This new result is better and acceptable. Now the SSD will no more holding me back. Trim Enabler has several more functions to be checked out. Refer these images to find out. I can assure you that this little app really worth the money you spent for it.

Taking a whole webpage into a picture is something we might need once in a while and FireShot takes good care of this. But somehow the developer doesn't support Firefox in Linux which render this add on useless even though it's installable. Luckily we have another alternative - Awesome Screenshot.

Awesome Screenshot works out of the box in Firefox for Linux. Installing is a breeze and the 'Edit' option will be available everytime you took a screenshot which enable you to crop the image and selecting only the portion you want to have.


Screenshot above displays what are available in the options of Awesome Screenshot.

Hi. Just a quick update here. Got it from Battery University. The table explains everything making me don't have to do so. Enjoy!

Currently I faced a problem where I automatically logged on to Kali Linux using gnome-fallback session. This made me think that maybe my graphic driver is not installed thus results in Kali Linux using gnome-fallback session as the default session when logging in.