how to make your battery last a bit longer
Here’s a couple of tricks you can use to eek a bit more life out of your old battery between recharges. 1. Turn off the keyboard backlights by pressing F5. 2. Turn off Bluetooth in the menu bar. 3. If...
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mac keeps starting in Safe mode
If you see a screen with a progress bar (something like the shot above), your Mac is starting up in Safe Mode. This shouldn’t happen unless the user intentionally wants to do so for troubleshooting...
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power button doesn’t display shutdown dialog box
Prior to Mavericks, a quick and easy way to get the ‘Shutdown’ dialog box (above) was just to press and release the power button. If you try that now in Mavericks, all you’ll do is put your computer...
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discover 10 new OS X shortcuts
No matter how many times I visit this page, I always find something new that I hadn’t tried before. So the title of this post is more of a suggestion than a description. Why not take a poke around...
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applescript: make your own battery health meter
A couple of weeks ago, I posted about how to extract numbers from strings. That led one reader to wonder what use they could make of such a handler. That sounded like an invitation for a little...
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