Running Snow Leopard

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I have successfully installed Snow Leopard on my MacBook Pro, and it went relatively smoothly. There was a hang issue at login after the computer restarted, but I had to force shutdown the computer, and restart holding shift down to disable extensions and startup/login items. After cleaning my login items, everything worked as expected.
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Before upgrading to Snow Leopard

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I am excited to get my hands on Mac OS X Snow Leopard next week. Meanwhile it is time to prepare for the upgrade. I am planning to take a complete copy of my Mac to an external drive. I am using a free utility Carbon Copy Cloner for this purpose. Then I am going [...]

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Apple Exchange + Repair Extension Programs

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From time to time Apple discovers defects in their products that can be serviced under warranty even after it has expired. If you are having issues with your product, it is worth to check the Apple Exchange + Repair Extension Programs page. Remember to select your country in the upper right corner. At the moment [...]

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About Batteries in Apple products

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As battery technology is in many Apple products today, it is important to know how to get the most out of them and to handle them correctly. Did you know that excessive heat (95° F or 35° C) can permanently damage your battery, and cold enviroments only have temporarely negative effect? That you must completely [...]

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WP multilingual content & Thesis 1.5.1 localization

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I have been using the WP  Thesis template for a while now on my blogs, and I am very satisfied with it. Especially the newly added support for localization. I have a translation of the frontend in faroese and danish. The backend is not translated at the moment. The translation is done for Thesis 1.5.1.
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Insert key on MacBook Pro Keyboard

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I have for some time searched for a solution for using insert key on a MacBook Pro keyboard when running Windows Applications, but according to Apple there is no solution for this. But I recently found this on the web (probably only works in BootCamp):
Insert: fn+return
Alt+Insert: fn + alt/option + return
If you for some reason [...]

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How to keep your applications updated

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If you are like me and keep a large number of applications installed on your Mac, you need some kind of strategy to keep them updated, so your Mac will run smoothly. I currently have more than 450 applications installed and counting! Most of them I do not use on a daily basis, but I [...]

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Troubleshooting failed system updates

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If you experience problems after applying a system update from Apple, in particular the latest update to 10.5.7. One of the first thing to do, is to manually download and apply a combo update to your Mac. There is always a possibility that a delta update can go wrong and make your Mac unstable.
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WordPress + Thesis = Blogging Heaven!

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I have for some time been looking for a replacement for my typo3 installations. I was looking for a free, powerful and easy to use CMS/blogging system, that can be used for small sites. I finally settled for WordPress. WordPress is free, powerful, extendable and easy to use. It is also available in my native [...]

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Ink for your old printer

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Just recently I was trying to buy a toner cartridge for my old Epson C900 laser printer. I was told by several shops, that it would be cheaper for me to buy a new printer than to buy ink for my old printer. I came across inkClub.com, and was pleased to see that I could [...]

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Solving Entourage 2008 encoding problems

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If you are like me and use Microsoft Enourage 2008 with a foreign character set that requires UTF8 encoding, you are most likely to encounter encoding problems along the way. Unfortunately there is no default setting to use UTF8 for the encoding. Instead Entourage tries to determine the encoding from the characters in the mail. [...]

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CrashPlan Backup

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With the arrival of Leopard and Time Machine, the need for an alternative backup solutions might not seem very urgent anymore. But many forget that to get full protection, you also need to get an offsite backup solution. One good solution for this is CrashPlan. The application is cross platform and works on both Mac, [...]

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Winmail.dat troubles

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From time to time you probably end up with the dreaded winmail.dat file in your inbox on your mac. It is usually caused by rich text files sent from Outlook or Exchange to users marked to receive “Rich Text Files” in the senders address book, even if the receiver is not an Outlook user.
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