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A file on an external drive was constantly giving me the message: The operation can’t be completed because the item “filename” is in use. I got it over a period of days even after switching files in the only application that could have possibly used it and quitting that application. When I looked for help on this, [...]

I am really surprised at how much my bad Apple Store experience affected me. To top it all of, I realized we forget to get our “free printer” as well. So today I was having lunch with another friend and suggested we go into the store. I didn’t see the woman who “helped” me, and didn’t [...]

Today I had the worst experience at the Apple Store. I have bought a fair amount of Apple Computers. I have bought them for myself, for others, and helped others to buy their first Mac. I even go with my friends if they need to go to the genius bar if they need hand holding [...]

Somehing scary happened with my Snow Leopard keyboard shortcuts. I accidentally went into Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard and checked “Show Keyboard & Character Viewer in menu bar” Don’t do it! Once you turn it on, there’s no getting rid of it. It’s a bug, but unselecting the check box will no do it. At some point I [...]

Well, even though my Apache issues with Snow Leopard were a bit frustrating, Snow Leopard has redeemed itself. First of all, it is noticeably faster. But second, printing and scanning is awesome. When I bought a MacBook a while ago, I got an HP C4580 printer/scanner for free. I didn’t really need a printer, but the [...]

Now, in this case it isn’t really Apple’s fault. It’s sort of everyone’s fault. There’s a reason even complex things need to be simplified and it’s to avoid the situation I’m in right now. After installing Snow Leopard on my other machine and thinking I found all the kinks my MacBook still won’t connect to a [...]

I am using the Apache vhosts feature to run multiple websites on my machine, many of which are running WordPress and therefore also using MySQL. The Snow Leopard installation was almost as disastrous as it could be for this setup. Pre Snow Leopard Installation Warning Be sure to back up your /etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf file before you install Snow Leopard. It [...]

I know that while it will be nice, Snow Leopard probably won’t be that big of a deal. However, I just can’t wait. I’m practically counting the hours until it’s released. I feel a little nervous like there’s something I’m supposed to be doing. And I know what it is. Buying and installing Snow Leopard! I kind [...]

I was tired of creating theme images on my Mac that came out murky on the PC. I went to look at a theme on the PC and it looked horrible. I had to retouch all the images I had spent so long creating in Photoshop. With Snow Leopard, Apple is moving to a gamma [...]