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If you experience any real slowdowns
in the operation of OS X 10.1(especially if you have manually installed
software, desktop pictures, fonts, etc. a good treatment is to download
and run Moo to prebind the system. Under 10.1, prebinding never needed
to be updated on anywhere as regular of basis as a lot of people assumed.
The only time prebinding information would be out of date is if you
installed an application on the boot volume via drag-n-drop. In that
case, only that application's prebinding information would be out
of date and updating the prebinding would only affect the freshly
installed app's launch time. Under 10.2, prebinding information is
automatically updated as a normal part of system operation. There
is no need or reason to ever manually update prebinding information.
OS X 10.2 is a very fast system software! Defragmented files can cause slowdowns as well. Panther OS X 10.3 automatically defrags files 20mb and smaller at launch. Jaguar OS X and lower requires Norton Systemworks 2.0 to use speed disk to defrag the system. Here are a few nifty tips on how to
get the most out of Mac OS X: Turn off Animate Opening Applications
in the Dock Preferences. This will make your apps launch noticeably
faster, particularly when launching multiple apps at once, by only
flashing the triangle beneath the application icon instead of making
the whole icon bounce (which is quite CPU-intensive) !!Jaguar Compatability with XLR8 G4 ZIF MPe processor upgrades!! As XLR8 has closed it's doors just before Jaguar hits
the streets, it is important to note that their cache control software
for their G4 upgrade chips in OS X 10.2 is broken, but unecessary.
Just remove the OS X end of their drivers, as they are unneessary
in OS X 10.2. YOU NEED TO KEEP THEM IN OS X 10.1.5 OR LOWER. You must
retain your OS 9 Classic extensions and control panel installed for
your XLR8 G4 zif processor however, no matter what version of OS X
you are using. Enable Quartz Extreme in Radeon equipped PCI Mac Video Cards AND Tiger 10.4 32mb VRAM hack!! By Default Tiger os x does not enable quartz ("2D") Extreme in 32MB vram Macs which includes Mac Minis, eMacs and iBook G4s (with Radeon 9200 video GPU). To enable quartz (2D) extreme (IN combined hardware/software mode) we follow the usual path to the usual suspect the configuration.plist by the path <dict> Change the line under <key>Quartz2DExtremeMinimumVRAM</key> also further below change.......... <key>Quartz2DExtremeVendorDisabled</key> to: <key>Quartz2DExtremeVendorEnabled</key> You should have a minumum of 512MB Ram installed on your computer. You could reduce that line integer to a number lower than 512MB but I do not recommend that because the hack will use system software and a greater load on installed RAM to accelerate the 2d. Anyhow close the window to save the file, add your root password and then you have quartz extreme 2d enabled. I have checked this with Quartz Extreme check and the display IS accelerated on a Mac Mini in Tiger OS X 10.4. Note that even without 32mb of vram set the quartz extreme utility will report the display as accelerated. You will enjoy more performance as Quartz 2d will accelerate through system caches if not totally through hardware as you will need a radeon 9600 or NVIDIA 5200 or better to see total hardware based acceleration. Try this the desktop function speeds will improve for you. The ARS Tehnica review in-depth of Tiger reveal and I quote: "Quartz 2D running in software mode went from about half the speed of QuickDraw in Panther to being over five times as fast as QuickDraw in Tiger." So you still can receive some performance gain with just a radeon 9200 in Tiger with this hack. Also.....It is possible to enable Quartz Extreme 2d via supported hardware temporarily via a menu option using the Quartz Debug application included with the Developer Tools. In order to enable it permanently, we have to do a little more work. One way is to force quit the Quartz Debug application after you have enabled Quartz 2D Extreme from the menu -- quitting normally will disable it again. It is also possible to edit the plist file that controls this feature directly. This file is located in /Library/Preferences, and it's named com.apple.windowserver.plist. Change the Quartz2DExtremeEnabled value to YES Quartz extreme can be enabled on PCI radeon 32mb video cards (Radeon PCI or Radeon 7000) or Radeon 9200 with this program available HERE for Mac OS X 10.2 and 10.3 and 10.4 Quartz Extreme is pci only not for mixed pci and agp environments..............so if you already have an agp video card in a tower Mac you cannot enable pci quartz extreme with that computer Mandatory disclaimer: Unless I install any of these utilities and performance tricks I carry no responsibility for any damage you may do to your computer if you use any of this code. !!Compressed Window Buffers in OS X For yet MORE performance (ANY VERSION)!! Even if you do not have a Radeon PCI video card, you can still speed up window performace in ANY version of OS X with ANY Mac that has the OS X running.This is highly recommended also for the Quartz extreme hack mentioned above. You may use this program which will enable windows compression for you!!! Mandatory disclaimer: Unless I install any of these utilities and performance tricks I carry no
responsibility for any damage you may do to your computer if you use
any of this code. !!Further Developments into enabling Quartz extreme!! Grackle Probe will enable certain functions within the
controller chip in the PowerMac G3 (Beige), Visit the developer's web site here to download this utility Mandatory disclaimer: Unless I install any of these utilities and performance tricks I carry no responsibility for any damage you may do to your computer if you use any of this code. Create Your Own Screensaver in OS X Although OS X provides a selection of gorgeous scenery
for its built-in screensavers, you'll probably get bored with the
beach, forest and cosmos images rather quickly. It's good news, then,
that Apple allows you to create a custom screensaver with your very
own pictures. Go to the Finder and select Home from the Go menu. Open
the Pictures folder, and then select New Folder from the File menu.
Call this folder something descriptive--Screensaver Images, for example--and
drag your favorite photos into that folder. Now select System Preferences
from the Apple menu, and click on the Screensaver module. Click on
the Screensavers tab at the top, and then click Slide Show in the
column to the left. Now, click the Configure button below the preview
window. This allows you to select the image folder of your choice.
By default, it's set to the Picture folder. Simply select your Screensaver
Images folder instead, and click Open. The next time your activate
your screensaver, it will choose images at random from your Screensaver
Images folder, and then slowly fade one image into another. It's a
great way to add your personal touch to OS X! Back up your Files in Mac OS X As Mac OS X has nothing of the simplicity of the previous Mac OS "Classic" OS, backup of software becomes absolutely vital! Use this link here to read the AppleCare knowledge base article on how to back up files in Mac OS X here BEFORE YOU ZAP THE PRAM,
RESET OPEN FIRMWARE (WORKS ON NEW WORLD ROM Macs ONLY)- It's kind of like zapping the PRAM ( resetting systemwide
preferences to cure a Mac that will not boot properly up even if system
extensions are off) but more effective by far!. This will even fix
any issues involved with new hardware that has not a proper firmware
patch or is way too fast or hi-performace for standard installs! To
do it, shut down your Mac, then press Command-Option-O-F as you start
it back up-after you hear the chime. You can release the keys when
you see a white screen that says "Welcome to Open Firmware."
At the Open Firmware prompt, type "reset-nvram" then press
Return or Enter, then type "reset-all" (without the quotation
marks, of course) and then press Return or Enter. HOW TO EASILY MOVE EXTRAS, FONTS, AND EXTENSIONS IN AND OUT OF OS X The biggest tech issue (next to unix preferences) with OS X is that the program does not easily allow the uninstall of unix extensions, not to mention invisible folders (which I will not here). The answer is in your little house-meaning your users directory-inside the Users folder with ther black silhouette of a head and shoulders. You have a Library folder there that you can easily drag and drop (and just as easily remove) any number of items that would have to reside in the Library folder of the system software. If you do not have a StartupItems folder in your user Library folder you can easily make one and then drop in your broadband optimizer files, etc.This will get around many unix root permissions.It is the general way that I would approach software upgrades in OS X. I recommend it. Also I highly reccomend the use of a program named Diablotin (Download link here and below) is your computer butler who will easily manage things for you. Want to store your files away from your install volume
in case you have a beige G3 using OS X(and you wish to save your 8gb
install partition)? Copy the current home folders to another place
on another partition, then create aliases back to them on the OS X
partition in the Home folder. Seems to cause no conflicts, and my
programs work great (and keep away from my OS X system install!) FIND FILES ON YOUR Mac ANYTIME (Jaguar OS X) This one is so easy, just type Command (the Apple key next to the spacebar) + F-then specify your search UNIX Preferences in Mac OS X-the achilles heel-and how to prevent those issues Unix preferences are the biggest issue in Mac OS X.
Often if a program isn't working properly it is due to corrupt preferences.
This issue is very similar to the extensions problems that crop up
in Mac OS 9 classic. Take heart though, here's how to fix it easily-without
the issue of guessing which is the bad preference. Before problems
crop up...my recommendation is to create a second user, and leave
this user with a default Mac OS X installation. If a problem crops
up, reboot into this user and see if the problem remains. If everything
works well it is likely that the preferences are corrupted in your
main user. Or if this seems too much to do, simply create backups
of your preferences on a second hard disk, a cd rom, or partition.
The likeky suspects are in your Users> (username-the house icon)>Library>Preferences
folder. When your OS X is working properly BACK UP THAT FOLDER!!
MAKE A DUPLICATE, and keep it current. Back this file up once
a week or so as you install new software and have it running properly.
If a program or the OS seemingly fails, just copy the clean preferences
file back into the Users Library folder. Otherwise you will have to
search for the preference associated with the program that will not
launch or not behave properly. Often you have to uninstall the offending
program as well, but that's anyone's guess without an on site visit. Grab a copy of TinkerTool. It's a great tool for customizing OS X, and you can do several things that we've found vitally important: Turn off Zoom Rectangles, Make the Terminal transparent, Use translucent Dock icons for hidden applications, and mark the foreground application with a Blue triangle in the Dock. You can also customize the Fonts your applications and the System use, turn off Font smoothing for a small speed boost, and numerous other tweaks. If you're an advanced user, you can save
some memory and system resources by removing a few nonessential
items from the /System/Library/StartupItems folder. This directory
is owned by "root," so you'll need to either use a file
browser like RBrowser run as the Root user (see our next item for
how to do this) or the Terminal and the "sudo mv" command
to move the folders into the Trash. In our case, we removed AppleTalk
(because we use 100% TCP/IP now for file sharing, thanks to OS X!),
Apache, AppleShare, NetworkTime, NFS, and Sendmail. Depending on how
you plan to use your system, you may want to keep some of these, of
course. We moved these folders to their own directory (Users/MyUser/DisabledStartupItems)
so that they could be moved back if we ever needed them, but that
has not been the case so far. Here is a great trick given me by an old-time unix head, and is well worth implementing. As Snard was a great concept-it's a dockling, and we know Apple frowns on docklings in OS X. Here's how to get the functionality of Snard without much hassle. Simply make a folder and title it "Favorites" (without hashmarks) and make aliases of all your most useful daily use programs, or any file you wish to be easily available to you. Then drag the folder onto your dock. Presto! You can now go and launch anything you wish without having to dig into your Hard drive(s). Sure works really well. Just add or remove aliases from the parent folder as necessary to change the contents of your Favorites folder. Okay you make an alias (shortcut mirror of the program icon) of your choice by highlighting an icon (by clicking on the desired program icon ONCE until the program icon has changed it's contrast color) and selecting make alias from the file menu (in the Finder). Then move the alias where you wish for easier access to the program of your choice. In the Finder, use Command-Shift-~
(that ~ is a tilde, the key immediately above Tab key on the left
side of the ketboard as you look at it) to drop down a Go To menu
in the frontmost Finder window. This is much quicker than navigating
by mouse in many cases...for example, you're in your Home directory
and want to go to /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/. Using the Go
To keyboard shortcut and simply typing in that directory path is quite
a bit quicker than navigating through the file system in a long series
of double-clicks! Try out the Column view in the
Finder. You may find that it's a lot quicker if you spend
a lot of time navigating back and forth through the file system...and
as a big plus, the Column view is the only way to access the new Finder's
built-in QuickTime support. Just click on any QuickTime-supported
file format and you'll be able to view pictures and even play movies
right in the Finder with no performance hit and no waiting for applications
to open! Definitely defrag your hard disk with Norton Speed Disk and use Norton Utilities or even Alsoft Diskwarrior run from the cd rom drive, not installed on the computer. This saves a ton of issues! Defrag after you have installed a few programs. You have no idea how much a difference this makes in software performance under OS X. What the unix guys don't get is that you HAVE to approach OS X in some ways as you approach any Graphic User Interface OS. GUI's like to be defragged, as they run much more quickly, when done so. Also defrag after you have reinstalled the OS, if this has been necessary. If you try to run a peripheral or software and get odd -36671 errors or some-such, you have to reinstall the driver or app as it got corrupted. This sometimes happens when disk images are mounted in the background-icons show up as generic. In this case just drop the mounted disk image into the trash and remount the disk image using foreground processes. Fixes that everytime! If you drop an item into the trash to delete it, and select empty
trash from the file menu, and then get a dialog box telling you you
don't have permissions to delete
the file, don't fret. Just move the item back to your hard
disk and reboot into OS 9.x.x. Then drag to the trash. Then reboot
to OS X. I've always loved the Classic Apple
Garamond font used for the text "Macintosh". It's
a shame that Apple is moving away from it. Nonetheless, a full version
of the font can be found at: Startup problems in Mac OS
X are addressed at this AppleCare Knowledgebase article here:
Solving Mac Startup problems Clean Install of Mac OS X Without a Disk: Also resets Admin Login Name and Password If you have to force a clean install of OS X due to corruption here
are a few steps to accomplish that:
Kernel Panics the Why and Wherefore Kernel panics are due to hardware problems or incompatabilities and can be solved in this way.......Make sure that current firmware is installed on your computer. Also make sure that none of your hard drives are "Blessed". This can be fixed by using Alsoft Diskwarrior 3.02 or later. Blessing a hard drive is only seen on older Mac hard drives that shipped with OS 9. Removing the OS 9 hard drive works too. Disconnect peripheral devices, except for the Apple keyboard and
mouse. This includes ADB, serial, USB, FireWire, SCSI, and PCMCIA
devices. If this resolves the issue, add back one at a time, restarting
after each, to isolate the issue. Try using Disk Utility or, if necessary, fsck (or run xoptimize).
Certain hardware may produce a kernel panic message during startup.
Modifying the privileges of Mac OS X system files may contribute to
a kernel panic; Relocating system-installed folders may lead to a
startup issue or kernel panic. Got folders instead of Icons in your dock? This is due to the Users
folder being moved. Obviously don't do this....however if it happens:
All the terminal stuff to get folders back to icons is unnecessary.
Just drag the three LS files in your Users/shortname/Library/Preferences
folder to the trash and log out and then without restarting login. Spam Email.....That IS a BIG Problem..... If you are tired of getting SPAM and want to report it to the government,
you can email the SPAM to uce@ftc.gov or you can install this program
and it will automate the process. Also, this program will grab all
of the necessary header files. Here is what you do: Screen shots from the Finder are back, so one no longer
has to use Grab. Enable CUPS Printing In Jaguar Open Print Center and go to the Printer List window.
While holding down the Option key, press the Add button in the toolbar.
A sheet will slide out that looks just like the one you would get
if you hadn't held down option. However, upon viewing the first pulldown
menu in that sheet, you will see the new listing "Advanced"
at the bottom. Exploiting the Jaguar ZOOM function While the Jaguar zoom functions are principally for universal access, the fact that OS X auto-smooths on zoom can be used to good advantage while browsing. I use it often while viewing online comics with small fonts, or when watching movies via browser plugins (where it's hard to change the size of the movies). Yes, not only text; even movies are smoothed on zoom!
Refesh Rate Disabled on DDR G4 tower Macs using Geforce 4 video cards If you are considering a NON-Apple Monitor for
your DDR G4 Tower Mac with a Geforce 4 video card you must purchase
a monitor which has a vertical refresh rate at greater than 77hz. Otherwise
you will get a "Video NOT supported" text note and a black
monitor at startup. The refresh rate is also greyed out so It CANNOT
be adjusted, as there is ROM code in there to prevent that. You can enable floppy disk drives on your legacy Macintosh
Apple-branded floppy hardware as used in the PowerBook G3 Series (Wallstreet
and Mainstreet/PDQ), the Power Macintosh G3 (beige), and others. This
driver is -not- for third-party floppy drives of any kind. Third party
drives are either USB devices or ATA devices, while Apple floppy drives
are raw Sony, Mitsubishi, or Panasonic drive mechanisms attached directly
to the motherboard controller. Thid driver will not help you in any
way with third-party devices, so don't even try. http://www.darwin-development.org/floppy/ Creating a bootable Macintosh OS X CD-ROM is not at all
intuitive. Here is a free utility that will help ease the process: Built-IN File Manitenance in OS X If you have startup problems in Mac OS X this article here can show you how to hopefully overcome those issues using Apple utilities: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214 Be careful of enabling ROOT (which I DO NOT recommend)
unless you are quite sure of what it is, and how you are going to do
something inside ROOT in OSX. HERE IS AN APPLE KNOWLEDGE BASE ARTICLE ON HOW TO ENABLE ROOT
The cross-platform capabilities of Jaguar 10.2 are covered in an article at MacWindows.com HERE The Panther 10.3 Cross-Platform report is HERE The 10.4 OS X Tiger Cross-Platform report is HERE
Make sure your Mac Firmware is up to date BEFORE installing Mac OS X listed HERE Read this article BEFORE Installing OS X on your Macintosh HERE
Enable File Journaling on Mac OS 10.2.2 10.2.2 is out and it has journalling available as a Disk Utility option for OSX Server. The option is still there for OS X Client, but hidden. Journaling allow the system to recover more easily from crashes and protect against corruption by having a "journal" (a buffer where changes are first made and then afterwards written to disk) and makes recoveries much faster when using tools like fsck. In exchange for this, extreme disk usage could have an impact (up to 10%) on performance. So, it's not recommended if your machine moves a lot of files around unless it's a file server, in which case it is *strongly* recommended (the priority in servers is safety of the files, not the speed of the disk). To enable journaling on OS X Client, use the Terminal
command: Grab Frames from DVD movies in Jaguar!! Q: I have a Titanium PowerBook and would like to know
how to capture still images from DVD movies. Pause and copy doesn't
work, and neither does pause and Command-Shift-3. Got any ideas? You'll need some third-party software, though, because none of Apple's screen-copying routines (including Mac OS X's Grab utility) will capture anything from a DVD. According to Apple spokeswoman Alicia Awbrey, that's because "we designed the DVD player so one cannot grab the frame from the screen. This is part of our ongoing commitment to being a responsible player in the digital content era and protect intellectual property rights." At least one third-party screen-capture utility, Ambrosia Software's Snapz Pro (http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities), gets around Apple's efforts to placate Hollywood, but only on Macs with Nvidia graphics chips, not on machines with ATI chips, such as your Titanium PowerBook. The same seems to be the case for DVD Capture, a free utility designed specifically to do just what the name says (Mac OS X 10.2 required -- http://www.digitallyobsessed.com/software.php3). According to several postings on the Net, however, you should be able to do what you want by bypassing Apple's DVD Player and instead playing your movie with VideoLAN Client, a free, open-source, multiplatform utility created by a team of French students. You can find it at http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download.html -- scroll down to Mac OS X. (There's no Mac OS 9 version.) Once you get it up and running your movie, pause at the
frame you want and try using Mac OS X's Grab utility. That should work,
but if for some reason it doesn't, try the combination others say they
have used successfully: VideoLAN Client plus Snapz Pro X. A full version
of the latter costs $49, but a stripped-down version, minus the option
of capturing QuickTime movies, is $29, and you can download a demo version
free. When you see the words "Apple Computer, Inc." in print or on the Web, chances are you're seeing it set in the Apple Garamond Bold font, a unique variation which Apple has used for their logo face for as long as I can remember. It came with Mac OS X, but it's not installed nor is it in an obvious place. Still, it's there if you want it. All you need to know is where to look and what to look for. The where to look part is:
Now Control-click SetupAssistant.app and choose Show Package Contents. Open the Contents folder, then open the Resources folder within it. This Resources folder is where you'll find the file you're seeking, which is called Setup Assistant.dfont. So, the what to look for part is: Setup Assistant.dfont I option-dragged this file (to copy it) to my Library/Fonts folder. I named it Garamond Bold (Apple), so that's the name I see for it in font menus and panels rather than the mundane and not-particularly-descriptive "Setup Assistant." So there you have it - a free copy of Apple Garamond Bold right there in every copy of Mac OS X... AND speaking of fonts if you type a control+option+k key combo you can type a nice apple character in programs which support it
You need three programs things to perform the upgrade. First you need a program called Flash Kit 2.0. You can find this at this link: http://homepage.mac.com/asaxton/FlashIt_Kit_2.0.zip. Next you need to obtain the firmware to turn your DVR-117D into a DVR-108. This can be found here: Inside the folder are two files and a readme. Take the two files (kernel and firmware files with .118 extensions, since you're updating the drive ID also; normally firmware updates have a single file) and drop them into the Flash Kit folder. Do not place them within a folder inside the Flash Kit folder; Just drag the individual files and put them in the Flash Kit folder. Now you have all the necessary stuff to flash the drive. Open up your Terminal in your Applications>Utilities folder. Once its open type the following "cd" (no quotes) and spacebar. Don't hit the return key. After that take the Flash Kit folder that contains the 2 Firmware Files you put in it and drag the folder to the Terminal window. Now hit the return key. The prompt should be different now. It should say ~/Desktop/FlashIt_Kit_2.0 and your username. At the prompt you need to enter this command in: ./DVRFlash -f PIONEER R8100108.118 R8100008.118 Just copy and paste the text listed above. Hit return. After you do that you will be given a warning message and prompted to say yes or no. Type Y and return. Then another screen with another warning comes up along with your drive information. It will ask you if your sure, Type Y and return. The terminal will scroll some things by, a meter will appear, a brief pause and then it will tell you if it was successful. Also if you listen you will hear your drive briefly power up and make a click. After that is done close the terminal and reboot your computer. When your Powermac has rebooted you should have a Pioneer 16x DVD-R 4x DVD Dual Layer Burner! To verify that the firmware took open up System Profiler. In the ATA Part it should say Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-108. It will also report that Disc Burning is not supported. Now we download PatchBurn 3. PatchBurn was created to allow Apple users to use non Apple drives and have all there iApplications and Mac OS burn what the drive is capable of. Download it here: http://www.patchburn.de/download.html. Once PatchBurn is downloaded launch the program. Open up the Expert Mode carrot at the top. Click the install button then after that is done click Install support for iDVD 4. Reboot your computer once more, then check System Profiler and you will see that Disc Burning went from Not Supported to Vendor Supported. To check it you may launch iTunes put a disc in and burn it. You should see a substantial increase in burn speed. The biggest improvement is importing music into iTunes. It went from ripping at 16x-21x to it starting at around 20x and peaking to about 28-29x. Although Toast does not rely on Apple burn support, another way to check your drive update status is with Toast if you have it. In Toast the Recorder menu there is a setting for Recorder Settings. The write speed should read 32x for CDRs now, opposed to 24x (with the 117D firmware). The same thing with DVD's and Dual Layer DVDs. You should see DVD burn speed increased and Dual Layer DVD ability. One note, 10.3 does not support Dual Layer DVD burning from finder. It will read but not burn. A 3rd Party program such as Roxio's Toast Titanium 6 does support dual layer burning. Also you will need to update Toast to the latest version (6.09) for Dual Layer ability as it was not shipped at first with that support. Mandatory disclaimer: Unless I install any of these utilities and performance tricks I carry no responsibility for any damage you may do to your computer if you use any of this code. Speed Up Mozilla Firefox (Broadband Only) speed mods: 1. Type "about:config" in the URL field and hit the return key. 2. Change "network.http.pipelining" to TRUE by double-clicking the line. 3. Change network.http.proxy. pipelining to TRUE by double-clicking the line. 4. Change network.http.pipelining.maxrequests from 4 to 30 after double-clicking the line. 5. Control-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0". Firefox will really speed up. This is for DSL or better connections only.
1. Boot your computer while holding the mouse button down. This will eject gthe cd before the System software initializes. 2. Restart into Open Firmware by holding command-option-O-F. Enter eject-cd as soon as the white screen comes up with text lines. You may also then enter mac-boot to boot up from there. 3. Open the Terminal and enter "drutil tray eject" without the italics. 4. If step 3 fails, you likely, or may have more than one removable data device connected. Enter "drutil list" (wihout the italics) to see the list of the connected removable drives. Find your CD in the list. The enter that device number, for instance if it is device 3 then enter drutil tray eject 5 in the terminal window. 5. You can download and install Ejector to eject a CD or any device. 6. The last hope is to use an unbent paper clip into the small round hole aside the cd or DVD drive if you have one. Some model Macintoshes, especially some laptops and Mac Mini computers do not have this feature. Insert the paper clip, and press carefully yet determinedly until the CD ejects. If you can't find your drive's eject hole, you may want to look through Apple's Knowledge Base. If the CD hasn't come out yet, you'll probably have to take your computer to an Apple Authorized Repair center such as TRAX Systems locally here in Lynchburg, or replace the drive at your own expense if it is out of warranty. This tip came from MacMerc.com and is used with their permission Type an Apple Logo in a Word Processor!! Option+shift+k types an apple logo in most word processor programs! Enable Debug Menu in Safari Web Browser You don't need Tinker Tool to get the Debug menu in Safari (If you prefer not to use that). Type or copy/paste this into a terminal window: defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 1 |
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