Category: instructions
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Tips on applying iSkin iPod/iPhone screen film
Here’s how to attach the iPod Touch/iPhone screen film from iSkin without bubbles (and avoiding the seven layers of hell while doing so). Wear polyester based clothing (which doesn’t produce dust). Start the process in a room that is the most dust free in your house.ย Perhaps your kitchen. Have the screen film, the anti-static…
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MacBook Longer Battery Life Tip
Quick Tip for a longer MacBook Pro battery life (with LED backlit screens): Make a Hot Corner for turning off the screen and use it whenever you’re not actually looking at the screen. (System Preferences -> Desktop & Screen Saver -> Hot Corners… [button]) If you’re like me and do multiple things while working with…
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Watch Windows Media (WMV) Stream on Mac
Instead of installing Flip4Mac you can use VLC to watch streaming videos, particularly Windows Media (wmv) streams on Mac. Here’s how: Download VLC for Mac OS X here. Install and Launch VLC Player. A Windows Media stream that cannot be played in Firefox will only show a lego brick and a blank area. To find…
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Download Old Versions of Firefox
To download old or previous versions of Firefox, such as 3.0.2 or earlier, try this (official Mozilla) address: http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/ This site makes available for download Firefox 2(.0.0.6) up to the latest official release (3.0.3 as of Oct 2008) and nightly builds which contain fixes to bugs up until the previous night. I’m currently having a…
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Remove Backed Up Items from Time Machine
To get back disk space on your Time Machine Backup drive you can delete or remove backed up items from Time Machine permanently. First, go into Time Machine by clicking on the clock arrow icon in the Dock (top right hand corner beside your clock). Then in Finder (with all the files and folders listed),…
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Not allowed to connect to this MySQL server
When connecting to a remote mysql server, the login/user must have rights to connect to the mysql server from outside of the local server, i.e. localhost. You need to edit the user record within the mysql.user table or add a new record for this user, giving it access to connect to the mysql server from…
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Can’t connect to mysql server on remote server
By default mysql does not allow connects to itself from any host besides localhost, for security reasons. When you get an error “Can’t connect to mysql server on [remote server]” when trying to connect to the remote SQL server via the mysql command line tool, log into the server running the mysql server and edit…
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Play ISO Videos in Front Row
To have Apple Front Row show and play videos inside of an iso file, first mount the iso file then make links to the video files inside of the iso, within your Movies folder. This can be useful for example when you have a season of television episodes of House MD in a single ISO…
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Slow Internet with Leopard
How to fix Slow Web Browsing and Slow Internet in Leopard (10.5.x) Symptoms Web pages load slowly in Safari or Firefox in Leopard. Web sites won’t load, only load partially, stop loading after a few hours. Slow DNS (domain name) lookup in Leopard. First load of web site is slow with “looking up domain” in…
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Debugging Mac OS X DNS – tcpdump
Need to debug a slow Internet connection in OS X? Or simply have a desire to watch incoming and outgoing DNS (domain name service) queries in Leopard? Then tcpdump is your friend. Open a terminal window and use the following command: sudo tcpdump -i en1 -s 128 port 53 -i Sets which interface to listen…