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We’ve had literally hundreds of requests from people who need help with their computers. Until now we’ve only been able to describe how things are done during our daily posts. Now we have a better way. With our new application you can allow your technicians to log into your machine and fix it for you. On the right hand side of the Fixyourdesktop site, you will see a widget called
“CrossLoop”. If you’d like to see what kind of support we provide just click on the green
“See profile” button for details. If you’re not sure how to use the “CrossLoop” program or are curious see the
“CrossLoop” video on YouTube for more info.
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As is known, one can annotate PDF documents by means of Mac OS X standard Preview application. It turns out that the same functionality is available for raster images also, but for some reason, it's hidden by developers.
Continue reading '10.5: Annotate non-PDF (raster) images in Preview'
Here is a way to re-order the login items in your user's Accounts System Preferences panel. (Whether this is actually useful, as those items now load asynchronously, is another question entirely.)
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Since the release of 10.5, I've seen that the execution of AppleScripts triggers heavy activity of
syslogd, basically causing it to take over the CPU. I've found that by killing the
syslogd process (which will automatically restart) and removing the
asl.db file from the /var/log directory, I can at least temporarily solve the problem.
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I'm excited that the Olympics are coming up and thrilled that NBC is going to have thousands of hours of additional video footage available on its Web site NBC Olympics.com, but highly bummed that I can't watch it on my Mac! Apparently you need Microsoft Silverlight, which is only available on Windows systems?
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Time Machine makes it easy to back up everything on your Mac’s hard drive. But what if you have items you don’t want Time Machine to back up for you? Watch the latest Quick Tip of the Week to find out how you can set up Time Machine to skip files you don’t want to back up.
If you're having trouble with your built-in iSight in Photo Booth, iMovie HD '06 (or both), here's one possible fix. If there is a picture of a camera in Photo Booth where the video/pictures come up (or the black screen) with a cross over it, just quit Photo Booth and open it back up again.
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If you use Safari and a laptop, you may be surprised to find that sites that incorporate Flash may be draining your battery. Unless you're one of those people who browse with Activity Monitor open, you're probably not aware that many sites are sucking your battery dry. Many sites incorporate Flash, in particular to display advertisements. These little Flash tidbits may be poorly written, and can make your CPU work really hard. This, in turn, will drain your battery at a fast rate.
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For anyone who, like me, has yet to upgrade from Photoshop CS to something newer, and is getting an error dialog on launching Photoshop CS on their case-sentivie volumes, here's a possible solution. The dialog complains that the CS app "Could not complete your request because certain required files were not found in the Adobe Photoshop CS Required folder. Please reinstall Photoshop to restore these files..," and here's the solution.
Continue reading 'Make Adobe CS apps run on case-sensitive volumes'
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