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  • Mac High CPU After Copying PDF Books ATSServer mdworker

    I recently copied over a set of PDF ebooks from an external drive to my “home” folder (usually your login name under Places within Finder) and a few minutes after that my Macbook Pro fan started to go nuts and I noticed my CPU temperature was up near the 70 degree C mark. Cutting to…

  • Why Apple is Selling More Macs

    Vista sucks. OS X rocks. Web Apps. Mac Bling. Mac at Last Gen PC Price. Bootcamp parachute. Points 1 & 2 are self-explanatory. 3. Web Apps People are no longer afraid of not being able to run their Windows apps because… nearly everything is becoming a web application. The only thing you need to run…

  • Playing TV Shows and Movies with Front Row

    This will be painfully obvious to the old school Mac crew, but having been a recent convert from twenty years of PC’ing, I recently discovered how cool it is to play movies and videos from my Macbook Pro.ย  It’s like having a digital entertainment suite in your computer, complete with remote control that wows the…

  • 5 hours 25 minutes Macbook Pro battery life

    After having returned my original Macbook Pro battery (made by Sony) and receiving my new SMP made lithium-polymer battery unit, my “at rest” macbook pro battery life reads 5 hours 25 minutes upon fresh unplugging. Calibrating your Macbook Battery for best performance Apple.com – Tips on Maximizing battery life on MacBooks How long does your…

  • Apple Macbook short battery life problems

    If you’ve noticed that your Macbook or Macbook Pro purchased in 2006 or 2007 is losing its battery life at an alarming rate, you’re not alone. Apple has had a very large batch of Sony lithium-ion polymer batteries for their laptops that are losing their maximum charge capacity very quickly. If you’ve noticed that your…

  • Block Flash Ads with Whitelist on Mac / Camino Browser

    Blocking Flash in Camino has been an On/Off affair until recently. Camino browser had implemented the FlashBlock software directly into its browser, but unfortunately, it didn’t have a whitelist where you can specify sites to allow Flash to run. So you either blocked Flash from all sites or no sites. Although this is still the…

  • Best Laptop Screen – MacBook Pro LED backlit LCD Display

    The Best Laptop Screen available on the market is on a MacBook Pro “Santa Rosa” (named that for their use of the Intel Core 2 Duo chips using the “Santa Rosa” line, i.e. 2.2Ghz and 2.4Ghz speeds). Alright, that’s a bit of a strong statement. The Best Brightness on a Laptop Screen… is found on…

  • Is your Mac Safe, Secure, Private and Protected? Little Snitch can help.

    ย My solution to keep Mac OS X protected from trojans and other nasty Internet virus related problems is an easy to use, easy to understand firewall software: Little Snitch. Having a virus attack your computer and render it useless is annoying. Having a trojan install itself on your computer and send out your sensitive personal…

  • How to fix Ajax Error: uncaught exception: Permission denied to call method XMLHttpRequest.open

    Error: uncaught exception: Permission denied to call method XMLHttpRequest.open FireFox/Mozilla browser fix / solution: Go to address “about:config” in Firefox (i.e. type that in the address bar and hit Enter) Search for “signed” in the filter bar Double click the item “signed.applets.codebase_principal_support” to change its value to “true” Create (or edit if already present) the…

  • XMLHttpRequest permission denied fix – Salesforce.com Ajax Toolkit

    Update: This post has been superseded by How to Fix Ajax Error: permission denied to call method XMLHttpRequest.open. For anyone developing S-controls and applications for use in Salesforce.com, developing directly within their platform is a bit of a hurdle. Using their Ajax Tools Development Environment for quick changes is fine. But, developing a serious piece…

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