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Hawk Wings Flies Again

Hawk Wings Flies Again

By on June 23, 2009 in Customizing, Mail.app, Tweaks

HawkWing.net is a great blog for find­ing tips, tricks and fixes for Mail.app — the default email client on a Mac. The site was dor­mant for awhile, but recently woke up and has resumed post­ing. Inter­est­ing side note, it’s run by Tim Gaden who is Dean of the The­o­log­i­cal School , Col­lege Chap­lain and Stew­art Lecturer […]

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Speeding Up a Slow Mac

By on January 12, 2009 in iBook, Tweaks

Kevin writes: I have a iBook G4 — 1.33 GHz — 512 MB RAM. It’s run­ning really slow. Do you have any “quick fixes”? I was look­ing on the inter­net and saw that “anacron” was sug­gested. Do you guys have any sug­ges­tions. I don’t really want to buy a new mac (yet) so any suggestions […]

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Customize About This Mac

By on November 29, 2008 in Customizing, Tweaks

Cus­tomiza­tion of your Mac is one of the best ways to bring your per­son­al­ity to your Mac. And what bet­ter place for us to start talk­ing about cus­tomiza­tion than with the About This Mac screen. Now some of you might not even know where to find this screen. So to begin click on the Apple […]

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Loud Fan and Low Battery — What to Do?

By on November 24, 2008 in Hardware, Mac OS, Tweaks

Mikul asks: Hey, our MacBook’s fan has been run­ning really loud lately. It used to not at all, and now it does 100% of the time, even when we’re not run­ning any­thing. Also, the bat­tery has been last­ing for a lot less time than it used to. Any ideas of what it is or what […]

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PDF Viewing for Firefox 3

By on November 13, 2008 in Basic, Configuration, Internet, Tweaks

I really like Fire­fox 3 and have always used it as my default web browser on both the Mac and PC plat­form. How­ever, the way that Fire­fox han­dles PDF files is some what of an annoy­ance. If you are like me you too will find it rather odd then that when in Fire­fox and you […]

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Keep Your Computer Awake!

Keep Your Computer Awake!

By on November 3, 2008 in Basic, Mac, Tweaks

I love show­ing my friends YouTube videos when they come to my place, but I hate shak­ing that mouse to keep the screen from dim­ming. Some­times in protest I turn the screen/power sav­ing off, but then I for­get to turn them back on. Headache!!!So I finally got sick of this and installed a slick little […]

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