Category Archives: Mac OS X

Can launch PPC apps again

Posted on July 25, 2007 by smsm1986

Since installing the Quicktime 7.2 and iTunes 7.3.1 updates on my MacBook, I’ve been unable to launch PPC applications through Rosetta. It appears that having Java 6 installed has caused the prebinding process to crash. Following the process documented in … Continue reading →

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British Summer Time from tomorrow

Posted on March 24, 2007 by smsm1986

It’s that time of year again when all the clocks in Europe change again. Tonight at 1AM the clocks all jump forward an hour. Being in the UK, it is nice that during the Winter, my current time is GMT/UTC. … Continue reading →

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Copying a file from one drive to another is that simple on Mac OS X

Posted on July 20, 2006 by smsm1986

I couldn’t believe it that simply pressing the command key on moving a file to another drive will move it rather than delete it.

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Two Weeks and had to re-install OS on MacBook

Posted on June 7, 2006 by smsm1986

Today I came accross a nice little problem on my MacBook that I have only had for 2 weeks. I had a bit of a crash and oh dear, I could no longer launch application after a Safari hang. On … Continue reading →

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MacBook loses battery life with single core

Posted on June 6, 2006 by smsm1986

I’ve been trying out the MacBook on both dual and single core mode. With the help of CoreDuoTemp Utility and Apple’s Developer Tools, I have found that it will always run at full processor speed of 2 GHz when you … Continue reading →

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Dictionary Definition for any word

Posted on November 2, 2005 by smsm1986

I’ve finally found out how to get the dictionary definition for any word on the page. You use the keyboard short cut control+cmd+D. Thanks to this page http://www.macosxhints.com/pollbooth.php

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Automator PDF workflows

Posted on June 10, 2005 by smsm1986

WARNING: If you are using a PDF Workflow from the Print sheet, then you may have a problem with permissions with the generated PDF. Essentially, your web server won’t see it as world and group permissions are set to nothing.

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Spotlight behind dashboard

Posted on June 10, 2005 by smsm1986

That’s weird, after activating dashboard, press cmd+space for spotlight. You can search away and open results, behind dashboard.

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Tiger’s Safari and PDFs

Posted on June 7, 2005 by smsm1986

When Tiger’s Safari is loading a PDF why doesn’t it show up the first few pages, while still downloading the rest of the document?

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Tiger: PSyncX: Fix

Posted on May 25, 2005 by smsm1986

If you had PSyncX installed prior to installing Tiger and you did anything other than a clean install then you will need to re-install PSyncX. Thereafter it will work perfectly again!

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