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Force shutdown / restart in Mac OS X

Posted in Apple, Apple hardware, Mac OS X on April 25, 2006 | 24 Comments »

Does your Mac seem frozen? Learn how to get out of it when possible, and how to force the machine to restart if nothing else works.

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Safari: Open link as a tab in another Safari window

Posted in Apple, Mac OS X on April 25, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

The shortcuts for opening a link in another tab in Safari are fairly well known. But you can also view a link in a tab in another browser window. First, arrange both browser windows so that you can see the tab area in the second window. Then, simply drag and drop the link into the [...]

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Deep-calibrate your PowerBook lithium-ion battery

Posted in Apple, Apple hardware on April 19, 2006 | 1 Comment »

Lithium-ion (li-ion) batteries work best when you partially empty them and then top them off. They don’t like to be emptied every time you use them. There is one exception: You should run your battery all the way down to empty about once a month. This ensures that the circuit that measures the battery capacity [...]

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AirPort: Can’t connect to password-protected wireless network (Log error “Rx’d mesg P-1″)

Posted in Apple, Mac OS X on April 19, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

If you can’t connect to an AirPort network, and the network requires a password that you’ve tried to enter correctly, try the following: 1. Open the Console utility in your Utilities folder. 2. Choose File > Open System Log. 3. Look for a line that includes the message: kernel[0]: AirPort: Rx’d mesg P-1 4. If [...]

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