The guys over at MacFixIt have posted a workaround and repair guide geared towards resolving Mac OS X kernal panics triggered by Bluetooth extensions. Like the extension conflicts of Mac OS 9, Bluetooth kernel extensions can trigger the system to fail, but can be diagnosed by looking at the system’s crash logs and seeing what […]
Reader Ciro Coelho sent us this workaround when he found himself unable to cleanly install the Design Premium version of its Creative Suite 3 package: I got problems as soon as I tried to install CS3 Design Premium on a G5 running 10.4.8 with a Photoshop CS3 Beta installed. I checked the web for a […]
The folks over at MacFixIt have published a full guide as to how to speed up Apple’s Safari web browser. Topics included cover how to speed up the program’s launch by cleaning up the startup routines, clearing out .plist files, removing third-party add-ons, resetting the browser, checking the plug-in inventory and clearing out the AutoFill […]
The guys over at Engadget have linked to a Google video over at Grynx.com demonstrating how to pull a laptop back from the brink of an inadvertent spill. Or, in this case, two consecutive spills. Here a group of technology authors poured both a glass of red wine on the keyboard, followed by a glass […]
A post over on Unsanity wherein the author (identified as “Rosyna”) describes the prebinding bug in Mac OS X 10.4. Simply put, this is where Mac OS X finishes installing an update and enters its “Optimizing System Performance” stage. Here, the operating system is prebinding, or looking off memory offsets of symbols in the operating […]