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How-To: Work around Apple notebook blank screens

As trusty and reliable as your MacBook or MacBook Pro may be, there are times where it will hate you and its screen will go blank. Sometimes this will take place as you’re working, other times after a restart or when waking up from sleep. The cool cats at CNET have assembled the following useful […]

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Princeton University analyzes iPad Wi-Fi bug, offers workaround

Following up on the notorious wireless glitch in the iPad wherein an Internet Protocol (IP) address of the iPad fails to correctly refresh, or “lease”, its address, the Office of Information Technology at Princeton University looked into the issue. On Tuesday, Princeton issued a report stating that the iPad will incorrectly continue using an IP […]

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How-To: Get around Mac OS X 10.6.3 update issues

The Mac OS X 10.6.3 update is out in its Software Update, Delta and Combo forms and a number of users (including the mighty Hawk of Applegeeks) have cited problems installing the update. In many cases, the user apparently has to sit forever with the spinning color wheel, or go blank to a blue, black, […]

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How-To: Maximize RAM Usage on 15″, 17″ Unibody MacBook Pro

Ok, I’ve never heard of this before and it could be interesting. Per CNET, a number of 15″ and 17″ unibody MacBook Pro notebook owners have run into problems when they ran out of available RAM more than expected, especially when running programs that can reserve large amounts of memory. These include graphically intensive applications […]

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How-To: How to Fix a Faulty Multitouch Trackpad

Occasionally the Really Cool Thing on your MacBook or MacBook Pro stops working the way you want it to. And you get frustrated. Per MacFixIt, a number of users have found that their multitouch trackpads on MacBook and MacBook Pro computers may randomly stop accepting 3 and 4 finger gestures. Although two-finger scrolling, tapping, and […]