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 were [...]

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

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Got an SDHC video camera and need to blank the SDHC card but you’ve not yet imported the movie into iMovie 08 and it takes too long or you’re low on disk space? Simply follow this tutorial and create an exact disk image of the SDHC card using disk utility. iMovie even recognises the image as a connected camera when you mount it later on.

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