I bought my MacPro (MacPro 1,1) in September 2006 and nearly 5 years down the line it’s still going strong, or at least it was. Some recent projects I’ve been involved in have required some serious processing power to render gigapixel images and the original 2xDual Core XEONs weren’t up to it. I found a [...]

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Strange and unexplained behaviour from Lion’s Safari which seems to be adding [SP] at the end of all page titles.

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Apache running under Snow Leopard starting giving HTTP 403 errors, simple CHMOD solved the issue.

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Whilst trying to work on a very large (800MB) photoshop file things just weren’t running as smoothy as I expected on my Mac Pro. 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 [...]

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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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