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How to prevent sleep while a Time Machine backup is in progress?
I'm one of those greatly suffering from the problem with TM in which the entire backup sparsebundle on a NAS gets corrupted if the Mac goes to sleep in middle of a backup operation. There's a long ...
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Making a micro MacBook Air (headless)
Here's a project I've been desiring for a while. Hopefully this is not too off topic.
I'd like to take a MacBook Air, remove the case, screen, battery, speakers, keyboard, basically everything. I ...
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Facebook Messenger - Enable Voice call outside U.S
Is there any way for me outside U.S to enable Facebook Messenger voice calls on my iPhone now? Hack? Or is it working with a vpn-tunnel thru U.S ?
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Can retina display features be enabled on older (non-retina) displays?
I have an older iMac, without a true retina display. I want to be able to scale the user interface like the retina macs do, but I can't seem to find a way to do that. Does anyone know a way to trick ...
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How to remove the line of Notes.app's background? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can I remove the lines in the Notes.app and change the line spacing?
I tried to modify the Notes.app for removing the paper style lines, because I prefer the paper ...
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Mount 'target' machine over Firewire (Possible to bypass DMA after 10.7.2?)
Is it possible to mount/read data from a hdd over firewire that is not booted into 'target' mode?
My scenario
cMBP 1
cMBP 2 (target) this machine is fully encrypted without a efi password.
I know ...
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Navigate within texts without using arrow keys
I'm an addicted vim user so I'm finding a way to navigate within texts without using arrow keys. Is there any app or hack to do this ?
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Late-2007 Mac Mini (A1176) Unsoldered Mystery Connector on Interconnect Board
I'm just wondering if anyone has ever done a thorough probe/exploration of the interconnect board in late-2007 Mac Minis. I'm specifically curious about the 14 unsoldered pads on the back of the board ...
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What actions are performed by Install OS X Mountain Lion.app that are not performed by InstallESD.dmg without the app?
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Apple provides and recommends use of Install OS X Mountain Lion.app
that is, "the app" – in its entirety.
For Build 12A269 for OS X 10.8, the version of the app is 1.3.12 (351).
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Is it possible to customize retina display HiDPI resolutions on OS X?
On this link there is some interesting information about how resolution configurations of different displays are stored.
Based on this information or some other source, is it possible to introduce ...
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Like to make a Hackintosh using an old iBook 14" [closed]
This is a bizarre question, but here it goes. My wife's first computer was an iBook G4 14" machine, which she loved. That is until the processor itself fried for some reason. I know this is the case ...
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Are there security risks for an iOS device?
My Dad just got an iPod touch and raised an interesting question. Are there security risks for an iOS device? He was planning on storing sensitive personal information on it, but wasn't sure if it was ...
