Clipboard History (via Clippings From Your Web)

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Nice free application and highly rated. Great find. I have tried other clipboard tools but they never worked out for me. I will try this one however and see what happens. I tried it and didn’t like it. I guess I’m old-school.

The title says it all. For most of the Clipboard history apps you have to pay, this one is free and does an extensive job. I have been testing ClipboardHistory for the last week and it is definitely worth trying. … Read More

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Speed up Mac OS X Leopard Locomotion

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Speed up Mac OS X Leopard Locomotion. These tips will work for Snow Leopard as well. This is a shorter and faster way but if this doesn’t help enough, you might benefit from using those other suggestions as well.

Screen Sharing Spinning Connection

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If you are having problems doing screen sharing and the dialog box goes into a spin cycle, follow MartsMac advice below.

This seems to be a HUGE bug that has been around for ages – I found at lest one thread of people complaining about this over a year ago!

Screen sharing usually works ok for me but this lingering login window is a real bust!

You can get the window to go away by logging off or pulling up activity monitor and killing “NetAuthAgent”

via Apple – Support – Discussions – Screen Sharing Spinning Connection ….

 

Upgrade your original 1984 Macintosh to run OS X Snow Leopard.

Upgrade your original 1984 Macintosh to run OS X Snow Leopard..  Very cool mod.  The screen is unusable to me, but an external monitor would easily fix that.

Mixing landscape and portrait layouts in Apple Pages (via throwable)

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Clever work around to fix this issue. This webpage has a ton of Leopard related troubleshooting as well. Might be worth a look if you are having a Mac OS X Leopard issue.

Incredibly, Pages ’09 does not seem to support mixing landscape and portrait-oriented pages in the same document, even when using layout breaks. The best workaround I could find is to insert a text box and then rotate it 270°. If you need the landscape-oriented text to span multiple pages, you can link text boxes across pages (select the first text box and then click on the blue arrow below the rotated text box to add the next text box). One draw … Read More

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Mac OS X v10.5, v10.6: About named streams on SMB-mounted NAS, Mac OS X, and Windows servers;

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Mac OS X v10.5, v10.6: About named streams on SMB-mounted NAS, Mac OS X, and Windows servers; Interesting details about named sterams on SMB devices.

 

Researchers sound alarm over critical Mac OS X bug Operating Systems Macworld

Researchers sound alarm over critical Mac OS X bug Operating Systems Macworld.  This is a concerning trend lately.  Quality where have you gone?