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Lion USB installer
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35,059 Views / 624 Replies |
You can make a bootable Lion installer on an 8 GB USB stick using the approach here (http://arstechnica.com/apple/guides/2011/07/ask-ars-do-i-have-to-use-the-mac-app-store-to-install-lion.ars). I...
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Posted by mmurray, on Jul 23, 2011 at 06:43 AM, in macOS |
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Quality of new MB screen
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Following up on Voch's question. I'd also be interested in knowing the answer to this. In the past the MB screens have never been as good as the MBP and very sensitive to viewing angle. Will that...
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Posted by mmurray, on Oct 15, 2008 at 01:14 AM, in Mac Notebooks |
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I ran as admin from the beginning of 10 up until...
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1,591 Views / 22 Replies |
I ran as admin from the beginning of 10 up until about a year ago and never had any issues. Last year I decided to try running a non-admin account and the only issue I had was when I wanted to check...
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Posted by mmurray, on Apr 24, 2008 at 11:06 PM, in macOS |
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OK so I have Leopard installed on a MacBook and...
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OK so I have Leopard installed on a MacBook and TM running onto a new 750GB external drive. If I have Mail foremost on the MacBook and launch TM then it gives me a nested series of Mail windows and...
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Posted by mmurray, on Oct 27, 2007 at 08:59 AM, in macOS |
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So am I stuck with the Note and To-Do's folders ...
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So am I stuck with the Note and To-Do's folders in the side bar ? I assume they are smart folders
or something.
Guess I will know on Friday.
Thanks - Michael
PS: Is there an atheist...
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Posted by mmurray, on Oct 22, 2007 at 12:06 AM, in macOS |
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Question about notes and to-do's in Mail
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775 Views / 4 Replies |
In the guided tour
Apple - Mac OS X Leopard - Guided Tour (http://www.apple.com/macosx/guidedtour/)
they show how you can create to-do's and notes in Mail. They appear in the in-box and also...
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Posted by mmurray, on Oct 19, 2007 at 08:56 PM, in macOS |
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So what apps does everyone want ?
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2,267 Views / 38 Replies |
So what apps does everyone want? Besides Photoshop of course :-)
My votes for:
OmniFocus
OmniOutliner
Doc's To Go from Dataviz
LaTeX ? Or is the text entry to difficult to do serious editing...
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Posted by mmurray, on Oct 18, 2007 at 10:12 AM, in iPhone, iPad & iPod |
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The screens were never great even when the...
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2,232 Views / 44 Replies |
The screens were never great even when the machines where new. I think they had an iBook screen as compared to the then 15" Powerbook screen. I used to get around that problem by having a keyboard,...
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Posted by mmurray, on Aug 18, 2007 at 02:16 AM, in Mac Notebooks |
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USB adapter for non-USB headset ?
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568 Views / 2 Replies |
Both Logitech and Sennheiser make headsets with standard mic/headphone plugs which come with an adapter so they can be used on a mac. Does anyone know where it is possible to buy just the adapter ? ...
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Posted by mmurray, on Jun 26, 2007 at 07:20 AM, in Mac Notebooks |
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Address Book & iSoftPhone problem
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Hi
Sometime back I briefly installed iSoftPhone and then dumped it. Since then when I launch Address Book and click on a contact it hangs for awhile and then brings up a list of all apps and asks...
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Posted by mmurray, on May 16, 2007 at 08:18 PM, in Applications |
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eyebeam or isoftphone ?
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Does anyone have any comparisons between these two VOIP soft phones. I am interested in using them with a sip provider.
eyebeam is at CounterPath (http://www.xten.com/) it is the commercial...
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Posted by mmurray, on Mar 16, 2007 at 12:02 AM, in Applications |
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using mobile phone via mac
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Is there an application which enables me to use a USB headset on my mac, connect to my bluetooth mobile phone using bluetooth and dial and answer and talk? I know there are app's for dialing. ...
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Posted by mmurray, on May 18, 2006 at 04:27 AM, in Applications |
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international date format problem in excel
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Hi
In theory Excel is supposed to read the format setting from the International System Preferences which I have set to Australian (day/month/year like UK). But when I try to format a date in a...
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Posted by mmurray, on Sep 23, 2005 at 05:33 AM, in Applications |
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Boxwave charger
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Has anyone tried charging an Ipod with one of these
http://www.boxwave.com/products/batteryadapter/index.htm
and one of these
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Posted by mmurray, on Sep 2, 2005 at 06:22 AM, in iPhone, iPad & iPod |
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Sorry I was wondering if anyone knew if it had...
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Sorry I was wondering if anyone knew if it had been dealt with already in a beta or if there were plans to get it dealt with in a beta. Those were the droids I was looking for :-)
Thanks -...
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Posted by mmurray, on Jun 28, 2005 at 06:09 PM, in macOS |
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Does 10.4.2 fix the proxy problem ?
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Tiger has a problem with usernames and passwords for proxies not being saved by the Network system pref. There is a lot of discussion over on Apple support discussions. It's particularly prevalent...
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Posted by mmurray, on Jun 28, 2005 at 09:52 AM, in macOS |
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The bug which gave an error on launch starting...
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The bug which gave an error on launch starting with fffff is gone I think but I got a new one last night. On launch it said
Error 51: Unable to communicate with the VPN subsytem.
Please make...
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Posted by mmurray, on Jun 16, 2005 at 02:20 AM, in macOS |
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I went and registered as a guest. Should that be...
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I went and registered as a guest. Should that be enough ? I also couldn't find anything that looked like VPN. Which section is it in ?
My problem is that if I can't get it as guest I will have...
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Posted by mmurray, on May 13, 2005 at 09:01 PM, in macOS |
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Thanks Simon but I know that little trap. In...
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Thanks Simon but I know that little trap. In both cases I could get the partition tab to appear. When it appears there is a pull-down menu with various formatting options. Under Tiger this only had...
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Posted by mmurray, on May 7, 2005 at 08:59 PM, in macOS |
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Tiger/LaCie/Disk Utility problem
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770 Views / 2 Replies |
I have just bought a LaCie Porsche 160GB hard disk. I wanted to partition it into 3 equal partitions.
So I launched Disk Utility under Tiger and all it seemed to offer me in the drop-down menu was...
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Posted by mmurray, on May 7, 2005 at 08:36 AM, in macOS |
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making widgets smaller ?
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753 Views / 3 Replies |
Is there a way of shrinking widgets ? On a 12" PB they take up a lot of space.
Thanks - Michael
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Posted by mmurray, on May 5, 2005 at 09:56 AM, in macOS |
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