The boot process on a Mac is a magical process, all you see is a grey screen with the magic happening in the background. Did you know that very are various keys which you can use to change how you Mac boots and access certain settings. They are not for every day use, mostly troubleshooting. They are worth knowing if anything goes wrong.
Although the title may seem simple, every so often a CD or DVD will get stuck inside your Mac, not matter how much you hit the eject button nothing will happen. It is stuck. Anyway this post will show you a couple of tricks that will hopefully help you eject a stuck disk. Most of the time waiting and coming back to eject the disk seems to work. But if that doesn’t work you can use some of the following tips.
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This post today is from a recommendation by Kirk, he asked if I could show you his plugin which he has written. I was only to happy to help. In a nutshell, it is a Quicklook plugin which changes the thumbnails in finder to one which looks similar to the ones in Windows, its called Mac OsXP Folders. At this point you are screaming “Windows, Hell Noooo”. But the result is quite interesting and is useful. Its worth checking out anyway.
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Technically you don’t have to defrag your disk if you are using Mac. This is because the Mac operating system is “intelligent” and can run without de-fragmentation or it does it in the background, I can never remember which. The problem with this thinking is that you can defrag your disk and it does help. This is where iDefrag comes in.
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I all most forgot to say Happy New Year to every one. I was too busy having such a good time, that I forgot to Thank everyone who has visited this site. I like to say thanks for every one who has commented, had a question, or just contributed to the site in some little way. Its always fun.
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If you follow my Twitter feed at all you will notice that I had trouble installing Windows on Boot Camp. I like a Windows installation because I can play all of the latest games. I was having a problem during the install with a “Disk Error”, it was a big pain in the ass to be honest. I had a new fresh game sitting on my desk for a couple of days and I couldn’t play it. Anyway I found the solution, which as always was surprisingly simple.
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