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Useful things to do on slow mac [closed]
I have a 4GB old Macbook, which runs super slow, with freshly installed Mountain Lion.
I'm pretty sure nothing will fix the speed, as its a fresh OS and if I run Flash, the CPU works so hard and CPU ...
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Is it possible to not keep ios apps on your main computer?
I sync my iPhone and iPad with my MacBook. It appears that iTunes stores copies of all of my apps on my MacBook, even though I, for obvious reasons, can't actually use them there. The problem is that ...
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Macbook - I don't know the password or the type of macbook and don't have cd's
Is there any way of booting up and erasing the user account and creating a new one. I can't login, so I don't know what version of OSX this is.
It's a white Macbook with a 2.16GHz processor. Model ...
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What charging mechanism to be used to maximise the battery life?
So I got my first Apple laptop, a Retina MacBook Pro. Since macbook pro retina's battery are no longer easily switchable I'm concerned about it's life and would like to maximize it. I have few ...
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How many cores does a Mid 2012 Macbook Air have?
I checked the specs, and the i5-3427U CPU has 2 cores.
But the Activity Monitor shows 4 little charts for the CPU, so it looks like 4 cores.
Which is correct? Why does the Activity Monitor have 4 ...
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Which Apple laptop should I buy? [closed]
I am now into iOS development and would like to buy an Apple laptop for programming purposes. Which one will be preferable and why?
What are the features I have to look into, because i m new to this ...
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How to disable the MacBook trackpad click but keep the tap enabled?
I have a 3-year-old Mac and either the battery or something else is broken (does not matter because it's not worth fixing) and due to this the trackpad keeps getting stuck.
Now my question is: can I ...
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How does Mac OS X 10.7 detect different displays?
I have a Macbook Pro with Mac OS X 10.7, and an external display screen attached to my Macbook, which is working fine.
Sometimes, I have to switch the second display to a projector (because I want to ...
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Safari not working with notification center
I have a new macbook pro with mountain lion. I want to use the notification center for my Facebook/gmail, but when I'm logged into both facebook and gmail, I never get alerts.I have safari available ...
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Emulating lower speed CPUs on Mac mini
I would like to ask whether it is possible to develop OS X application (especially for Lion) on a Mac mini, being able to test how the performance would be on a lower speed CPU. For example: ...
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Moving Drives Between Macs
I'm considering buying a new MacBook Pro after today's refresh, and I am wondering if OS X handles simply pulling a drive out of one MacBook Pro and putting it in another. I know that in the Windows ...
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How can I synchronize my two Mac Computers? [closed]
I have a Macbook and an iMac, generally I work on my Macbook, but sometimes I need that information on my iMac. My OS is Mac OSX Snow Leopard.
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MacBook Pro disk failure
Just a few months ago, I bought the latest 2011 MacBook Pro. Now, a few months later, I have a problem. It seems like my notebook is rejecting my hard drive (which is an SSD).
How it all began: ...
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Wifi preferences
whenever my computer (which is a MacBook Pro bought in 2012) is sleeping or off, and i login with my password, it is always on a different wifi then my home wifi. My home wifi is Skritty, and the wifi ...
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How do i use ipfw to allow some sites and block all sites
I am new to ipfw, my requirement is like that, once application launches,i need to read the certain application parameter and depending upon them, i should be able to allow some site and block others, ...
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Checking number of reallocated sectors of HDD through Disk Utility, Mac OS X
My MacBook was purchased in 2008. Yesterday I checked the number of reallocated sectors of the hard drive using Disk Utility. It showed there were no reallocated sectors. That seems strange since I ...
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I cannot install the Tiled Map Editor on Mac OS X 10.6.8
I am attempting to install Tiled Map Editor, a cross-platform open-source application that uses the QT application framework. It is used in game design.
When I attempt to install it, I get this error ...
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Where can I find good tutorials for an OS X newbie?
I am using Mac OSX Snow Leopard.
Now, I am giving my MacBook to my younger brother, who is quite new to OS X and Unix. He is using Windows for thelast 8 months, and is quite familiar with it.
I need ...
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Buying a Mac for a Boys Soccer Team [closed]
My friend wants to buy a Mac. He is the coach for a Highschool Boys Soccer Team and wants to use it for video editing and media keeping.
I assume that a low-end Macbook is going to be too slow for ...
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Macbook Air (Oct 2010) Photoshop & Web development laptop?
I currently have a 2008 MBP and am thinking of getting a new computer. I was wondering if the MBA OCT 2010 edition with max cpu (2.13GHz Intel Core 2 Duo) and 4gb ram would work well with photoshop ...
