Whilst trying to work on a very large (800MB) photoshop file things just weren’t running as smoothy as I expected on my MacPro. I opened up Activity Monitor to see if it was a RAM shortage when I noticed my CPU history was almost maxed out, but NOT by the photoshop process. My cpu cycles [...]

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Google has just launched Google Street View in the UK this morning although it only covers a handful of the major cities.

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My Macbook Air screen normally only opens to just past vertical, which was a little annoying. Now it appears the hinge has snapped/broken and the screen folds almost completely flat. There are some photos of something that snapped off the hinge too.

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Getting an error “The update Safari can’t be saved” when trying to update using OS X Software Update? Here’s a quick solution, simply delete the Safari folder in the /Library/Updates/ folder and try the update again.

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I couldn’t login to facebook using Safari, constantly cycling back to the login page with no errors, but could log in fine using firefox!? Eventually found the culprit was Safari’s private browsing option. This was left on from an earlier session, turning it off let me login.

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MacBook Pro showing an uptime of 134 days! Not bad for a laptop in regular use.

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