Even though Mac is a very fine operating system and arguably far more stable and secure than other OSs, Mac has its own woes. It happens sometimes that Mac starts behaving strangely, locking up, endless ‘beach balls’, applications settings making no sense and serving you with similar annoyances. So what’s wrong ?
There are three usual [...]

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If you are typing something in any cocoa application and you are not sure how to spell the word, Mac OS X has a nice feature giving you some suggestions.
For example you are trying to write that ridicul.. redicuou… ridicuol … errr … ridiculously complicated word, and for a million dollars you wouldn’t be able [...]

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It seems that Apple has pushed the iTunes 7 release way before it was really ready. This shows not only in the audio problems reported by many users, but also in iTunes 7 interface. It is clearly unfinished and although it looks nice, it has some serious shortcomings.
I used iTunes 7 for a few [...]

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Have you ever encountered a strange icon in your System Preferences, like the one below ?

If you did, here is a simple way how to fix this.
Close the System Preferences and open the Finder. Navigate to your
Home folder > Library > Caches. Find the following files:

com.apple.preferencepanes.cache
com.apple.preferencepanes.searchin­dexcache

and delete them.

Now empty your Trash can (right click [...]

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If you are having a problem inserting Amazon associates ads into WordPress, then you are not the only one. For some strange reason WordPress strips the iframe html so that you end up with one of the two situations; either the ad itself is missing or the ad is there but any text in your [...]

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In January 2006 I wrote an article about some cool things you can do on your Macintosh computer. One of the things I discussed was screen capture in Mac OS-X, and in many comments, both on Digg and my website, I’ve noticed that number of people didn’t quite understand its full potential. Some Windows users’ [...]

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