For a while there had been an annoying buzz emanating from my Mac Pro. I knew it had something to do with a new hard drive I installed, and for a while I thought the drive might be defective, like an earlier one I had that was extremely loud before I returned it. In this [...]
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Mac Pro: Annoying hard drive vibration fixed
Posted in Apple hardware, tagged hard drive, Mac Pro, vibration on June 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Epson inkjet printers: Printer preset forgets settings
Posted in Adobe Photoshop, Digital Photography, Epson Stylus Pro 3800/3880, Mac OS X, tagged 3800, epson, linkedin, preset, Printing, settings on February 1, 2009 | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
Cannot read CD or DVD from Windows Vista
Posted in Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, tagged CD, DVD, Microsoft Windows, Windows 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, [...]
Apple keyboards are now safe for calibrated Apple LCD monitors
Posted in Adobe Photoshop, Apple, Apple hardware, Color management, Digital Photography on August 18, 2007 | 1 Comment »
If you’ve carefully calibrated your monitor and you use the white Apple keyboard that came with the iMacs and Mac Pros, you may have encountered that nasty surprise when accidentally pressing the F14 and F15 keys: They change the monitor brightness. Changing the monitor brightness is obviously a big no-no if you’re maintaining a color-managed [...]
Mac OS X: Keyboard shortcuts to launch any application
Posted in Apple, Mac OS X on June 28, 2007 | 22 Comments »
Some of the search queries that land people on this blog seem to be looking for shortcuts for applications. (Especially Activity Monitor…see the third and last paragraphs for more on that one.) 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 [...]
Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac: Free a stuck Help window
Posted in Mac OS X, Microsoft Office on June 5, 2007 | 11 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 [...]
Stuttering video playback on PowerBooks and iBooks
Posted in Apple, Apple hardware, Mac OS X, tagged iBook, laptop, notebook, PowerBook, streaming, Video on February 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
If you experience stuttering, jerky video playback on an Apple PowerBook or iBook, here are some ideas. Check Energy Saver settings. 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 to Highest or Automatic. Video [...]
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 »
Is an application failing to start after you run a delocalizing utility? Some apps don’t like to have their localized resources deleted, and they refuse to run without them…
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 [...]
Spotlight: Speed search term entry by abbreviating
Posted in Apple, Mac OS X on September 25, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
If you’ve used both Spotlight and one of the third-party file indexers/launchers that came before it, like LaunchBar or QuickSilver, you know that entering a search takes a little more effort in Spotlight. LaunchBar and QuickSilver can find a file using very short abbreviations, they learn which abbreviations you prefer, and they interpret abbreviations very [...]
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