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How-To: Repair Fuzzy Icons in Snow Leopard

There’ll always be bugs, you can count of that. Per CNET, a number of Snow Leopard users have been complaining of blurry and pixelated icons showing up in the Finder. A thread on the Apple Discussion Board outlines this issue, where instead of the large and crisp icons that are so prominent in OS X, […]

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How-To: Work Around Snow Leopard Installation Issues

As nifty as Mac OS X 10.6 (“Snow Leopard”) may be, according to MacFixIt, a number of users are reporting a problem where the installer will not recognize the current boot drive as a valid destination for Snow Leopard. Instead, it will display the drive with a yellow triangle on it, indicating something is wrong […]

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How-To: Get Around MobileMe Authentication Requests After Canceling an Account

If you’ve recently canceled your .Mac/MobileMe subscription, you may be having a problem where your Mac doggedly tries to connect to MobileMe and presents a log-in window at random. When this happens, entering the old MobileMe credentials won’t work, and clicking cancel seems to be the only way to get rid of the window. Over […]

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Some Mail.app Users Reporting Difficulties with Cox Cable Provider

A number of Cox internet service members have been having trouble accessing their e-mail accounts through Apple’s Mail program. Per MacFixIt, the connection seems to be fine and log-in works, but while Mail will show downloaded messages in the “Activity” window, they will not show up in an in-box. Additionally, a message of “mail cannot […]

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How-To: Creating a Flash for Your iPhone 3GS Camera

Despite the dramatic improvement in the iPhone 3GS’s new 3 megapixel camera, there are still complaints as to the lack of a built-in flash on the handset. Over on The Channel Project, Ryan decided to make his own flash out of a Mophie JuicePack. The result was him cutting open the JuicePack, connecting a white […]