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Photoshop CS5: Fix crashes in Mac OS X 10.6.4

Posted in Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe Photoshop, Apple, Mac OS X, tagged , , , , , , , on August 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Photoshop CS5 crashes caused by Mac OS X 10.6.4 are now fixed in Apple Snow Leopard Graphics Update 1.0…

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Mac OS X: The Dock or Application Switcher stops working

Posted in Apple, Mac OS X, tagged , , on October 6, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Today I tried to press the Command-Tab shortcut for the Application Switcher but nothing happened. Another thing that wasn’t working was moving the mouse to the edge of the display to make the hidden Dock appear. The keyboard shortcut to display the Dock wasn’t working either. If this happens to you, the way to fix [...]

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Adobe Bridge: Workspace not saved on Mac OS X

Posted in Adobe Bridge, Adobe Creative Suite, Apple, Digital Photography, Mac OS X on September 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

You want to save a workspace in Adobe Bridge in Mac OS X, but it won’t “take.” The next time you start Bridge, the workspace isn’t available or doesn’t apply when you select it. It just does nothing. The fix is to open Apple Disk Utility, select your startup volume, and click Repair Disk Permissions. [...]

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Epson inkjet printers: Printer preset forgets settings

Posted in Adobe Photoshop, Digital Photography, Epson Stylus Pro 3800, Mac OS X, tagged , , , , , on February 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »

If you use an Epson Stylus Photo/Epson Stylus Pro printer in Mac OS X and you save printer settings as printer presets (a recommended practice), there may be times when you choose a preset and realize that some of the settings mysteriously deviate from the way you saved them. For example, you might swear that you saved [...]

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Cannot read CD or DVD from Windows Vista

Posted in Mac OS X on April 28, 2008 | 3 Comments »

If you get a CD or DVD from a Windows user and it seems blank, or you can’t read it on your Mac (or non-Vista version of Windows), and the Windows user swears the disc was burned successfully, the Windows user probably burned it using the default settings in Windows Vista. With the default settings, [...]

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Mac OS X: Keyboard shortcuts to launch any application

Posted in Apple, Mac OS X on June 28, 2007 | 11 Comments »

Some of the search queries that land people on this blog seem to be looking for shortcuts for applications. With Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you don’t need to create or even learn shortcuts for applications. They’re already there, but not in the form you may be expecting. The key is Spotlight, the search [...]

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Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac: Free a stuck Help window

Posted in Mac OS X, Microsoft Office on June 5, 2007 | 9 Comments »

The Microsoft Office Help window’s title bar can sometimes get stuck under the menu bar. When that happens, you can’t move the Help window, and you can’t close it because the close button is part of the title bar. Because the Help window is more like a palette than a window, it doesn’t respond to [...]

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Stuttering video playback on PowerBooks and iBooks

Posted in Apple, Apple hardware, Mac OS X on February 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

If you experience stuttering, jerky video playback on an Apple PowerBook or iBook, it might be because of the settings in your Energy Saver system preferences. Open your System Preferences and click Energy Saver. In Energy Saver, click the Options tab. Now check the setting for Processor Performance. If it’s set to Reduced, change it [...]

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Mysterious application failures caused by delocalization

Posted in Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe Illustrator, Apple, Mac OS X on January 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

OS X supports a large number of world languages, but if you only understand one language, you’re hauling around many megabytes of files you don’t need. Many Mac users try to free up some disk space by using a utility that removes versions of files for languages they don’t want. This has given rise to [...]

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Back up important preferences files

Posted in Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe Photoshop, Apple, Mac OS X on November 19, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

When an application isn’t quite working right, sometimes the cause is a preferences file that’s gotten corrupted, so a common troubleshooting step is to delete an application’s preferences file. That’s easy to do, but with many of today’s more complex software programs, preferences are key to your workflow, and when you lose your preferences, the [...]

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