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comment Any ideas why my Airport Extreme identifies itself as a Time Capsule in Time Machine?
Cool! Mine doesn't work that way, and the official docs say it shouldn't work, but I know you could get around that design in the past.
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reviewed Reviewed Is there a way to set an Application Shortcut in the Keyboard Preference Pane via Terminal?
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reviewed No Action Needed Mac Pro: Kernel panic during HDD boot and DVD boot
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reviewed Approve suggested edit on scrolling tag wiki excerpt
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reviewed Approve suggested edit on file tag wiki excerpt
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reviewed Approve suggested edit on deleting tag wiki excerpt
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comment MBP w/ OS X 10.8.3 Performing Quite Slowly Lately
So - if you reboot the Mac and don't open any apps, Netflix alone lags?
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reviewed Leave Closed How long will Apple support updates for the iPhone 4?
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comment MBP w/ OS X 10.8.3 Performing Quite Slowly Lately
Do you have a benchmark that you are measuring to determine slowness? Mouse lagging? Writing files slow, launching apps? I've found people that purge RAM and caches actually slow down their Macs in some cases, but let's dig into your specifics before guessing a problem.
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revised Is there character spacing feature in PDFpen?
made relationship to the product more clear
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reviewed Reject suggested edit on Is there character spacing feature in PDFpen?
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reviewed Approve suggested edit on I Think My Graphics Card Changed
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comment How long will Apple support updates for the iPhone 4?
@HelpingHand Let's have you ask a question on out Ask Different Meta site to discuss why it's closed and what could be done to both get you the answer you seek and be within the guidelines for questions that the site has established. I don't see a way to improve it if you really only want to know Apple's future plans as that would be overly speculative and too limited in time to be useful.
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revised iPhone upgrade without deleting data
no need to solicit for votes or comments. We presume everyone knows how to use the site and only if you spot a pattern of someone not using the tools - flag it and let a moderator help
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comment How long will Apple support updates for the iPhone 4?
With an edit to remove the speculation, this could clearly be more objective if it focused on whether Apple has a policy of support or if you needed help with what past Apple has done when a device is dropped from either support altogether or what happens when newer OS come out and older hardware are excluded from running it either entirely or in part.
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reviewed Looks Good Why doesn't the screen saver delay that I set persist after restarting my Mac?
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comment Why is Safari 6 so slow?
Rather than close this as not being constructive (which it borderlines or has crossed the line IMO) - let's see if an edit can list what you've tried to even document the slowness you see on one or two websites with the browsers. If you can list details, someone can make a reasonable guess as to what help you need. Without, we can only guess where you are in troubleshooting this.
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reviewed Close Why is Safari 6 so slow?
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reviewed Approve suggested edit on Is there character spacing feature in PDFpen?
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revised Any ideas why my Airport Extreme identifies itself as a Time Capsule in Time Machine?
added 83 characters in body