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| Monday May 12, 2008. 07:38 PM |
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Frustrated by Firefox's hesitance to alphabetize your bookmarks? It's easy when you know the trick.
If items you’ve tried saving to your Desktop are disappearing without a trace, Ted Landau feels your pain. Here’s how he solves the problem.
Concerned that a spammer might learn of your whereabouts when you preview a message? Let's bring your concerns into perspective.
Of course you can send a single iCal invitation to many recipients. Here's how.
If you’re an AT&T/Yahoo DSL user having trouble sending e-mail, you’ll want to read Ted Landau’s advice on how to fix the problem.
Here are a couple of options for moving specific Mail accounts offline.
Ted Landau finds two recent examples of Apple-recommended Terminal work-arounds.
Care to play both Region 1 and Region 2 DVDs in your new Mac? Here are your options.
You say you'd like to reverse Photo Booth's mirror images? It's easily done with a single command.
Is your Apple TV not showing up in iTunes? Are you getting error messages when you attempt to sync your Apple TV? Ted Landau covers these troubles in the latest installment of Bugs & Fixes.
Windows wants your AirPort base station's key code. Here's how to find it.
Disappointed that you can't protect cells in Numbers as you can in Excel? Here are a couple of workarounds.
Photoshop Lightroom users get an update that tackles the bugs introduced by the last version of the digital-imaging workflow application. And Ted Landau explains how to resolve a conflict between StuffIt 12 and Norton AntiVirus 10.
Leopard's PubSub Agent alert, while sounding ominous, is perfectly benign.
Does your Apple TV drop off your wireless network? Dan Frakes may have the solution for you.
Ted Landau experienced some recent trouble with Spotlight where the built-in search feature kept indexing one of his drives without ever getting closer to finishing. Here’s how he tackled the problem.
Does .Mac tell you it can't sync your iCal events due to inconsistent data? Here are a couple of options for solving the problem.
iChat alerts too loud for you? Here are a couple of ways to quiet them down.
Bugged by slow launch times or frequent crashes with Word 2008? Ted Landau has the solution to your woes.
Care to remove just certain entries in the Recent Items list? Here's how.
Network World’s Ron Nutter fields a small business networking question on including a printer in a wireless network.
This installment of Bugs & Fixes takes a look at two things that might have gone missing—keystrokes after your Mac has been idle for a while, and iCal events for OS X 10.5.2 users.
If you find Energy Saver's Scheduling feature too limited, allow me to recommend a more flexible solution.
Miss having a slow-motion effect in iMovie '08? You can return to the days of old or use a utility to slow down your iMovie clips.
Tips for moving contacts into and out of Address Book.
Need to find audio tracks not in your iTunes folder? Here are two solutions.
Are movie files you’ve exported from QuickTime Pro into Windows Media ending sooner than you expected? It’s actually not a bug, Ted Landau explains.
Here's how to hide spam unearthed by Spotlight.
Like the title says, how to manually add keychain items.
Ted Landau highlights problems with funky fonts and incorrectly assigned ownership that can stem from the installation of the latest version of Microsoft’s productivity suite.
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| Wednesday February 27, 2008 |
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Two hard drives, two operating systems. Use Migration Assistant to make them see eye to eye.
The steps for using Pacifist to reinstall OS X applications.
Ted Landau looks at three common culprits that prevent iPhone users from sending e-mail and how to tackle them. Plus, in a bonus bug, he takes on the mysterious iPhone Unknown error (6).
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| Wednesday February 20, 2008 |
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Have a stubborn hunk of media in a Web Gallery that refuses to disappear? Dive under the hood to solve your problem.
Ted Landau finds the culprit behind several application crashes, including Logic Express, GarageBand, and Adobe’s Creative Suite 3
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| Thursday February 14, 2008 |
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Are Coverflow images for your videos less than attractive? Here's how to replace them.
You'd like iCal to dispense with AM and PM and display events in 24-hour time. Here's how.
Ted Landau tackles Leopard glitches that potentially make your home folder disappear and cut off your wireless access.
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| Wednesday February 6, 2008 |
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When you're looking at $200 to modernize an old hunk of hardware it may be time to think about going shopping.
Does your iPhone refuse to talk to you when you put it up to your ear? Time for some light cleaning.
Does Finder crash when you try to set permissions for users in Leopard? Ted Landau explains how to fix the problem.
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| Wednesday January 30, 2008 |
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You have QuickTime and Windows video files you'd like to play on your iPod? Follow along to convert them to an iPod-friendly format.
Stuck with OS 9 and an ancient web browser? A couple of more up-to-date browser options remain.
Mighty Mouse disinclined to scroll? You can clean it or cut it.
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| Wednesday January 23, 2008 |
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Here's a way you can flag particularly embarrassing typos like using one correctly-spelled word instead of the appropriate word to prevent them from showing up in your finished document.
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| Wednesday January 9, 2008 |
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Does Spotlight routinely appear when you're using Photoshop? Change Spotlight's keyboard shortcut to eliminate the problem.
Does your Mac claim another firewall is in use when it clearly isn't? Flush your troubles away with Terminal.
What's the best way to format a drive for Time Machine on an Intel Mac? Get on the GUID foot.
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| Wednesday January 2, 2008 |
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Before we begin a new year of Mac 911 questions and answers, I follow up on a few questions from last year.
Does Mail balk at you tossing out a draft message? Let's kill it together, shall we?
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