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the trouble with pixels

The PC industry is presently in a period of major bungled transition and chaos related to high-DPI hardware being released before Microsoft and Windows applications can support it. By mistake, I bought a laptop with a beautiful 13″ 1920 x 1080 screen with

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Can’t move VMWare Fusion on Mac OS X?

If you get some message like “You don’t have permission to move this Application” or some such thing, try this in Terminal: sudo chown -R username /Applications/VMware\ Fusion.app sudo chmod -R 777 /Applications/VMware\ Fusion.app

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how to set up a VPN with Asus RT-N16 and Mac OS X

Step by step how to set up a VPN with Asus NT-R16 and Mac OS X

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Mac epoch?

While installing the Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) update, I noticed that the temporary file ( /Applications/Mac OS X Mavericks.appdownload ) created while the update “app” downloads has the creation date set to January 24th, 1984, the day of the initial Macintosh release.

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how to create an iPad video kiosk

I was recently tasked with building an iPad floor display that would loop a series of video clips indefinitely in a public place. Surprisingly, it’s not very obvious how to do this, and the third-party applications for looping video don’t

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list of Mac OS computers I’ve had

Desktop Macintosh SE FDHD Macintosh Plus Macintosh IIcx Macintosh IIci Macintosh IIsi Macintosh Classic Macintosh LC Macintosh LCIII Macintosh Quadra 610 Power Macintosh 6100/60 Power Macintosh 6500/250 Power Macintosh 7200/75 Power Macintosh G3/233 Desktop Power Macintosh G3 266 Minitower Power

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quality carried all the way through

When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re

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