I’ve recently started noticing that the battery on my Macbook loses its capacity very quickly.  I think it’s at about an hour to an hour and a half limit.  It’s sad to see.  I had such faith in it.  I was so diligent to only plug it in at about 6-8% remaining power, often waiting [...]

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If you’ve resized your window off-screen and cannot resize it to fit back onto the screen as a result of the lower-right-corner resizing that is now off-screen, then you can get around it by the following:
1) Run: Applications->AppleScript->ScriptEditor
2) In the editor, type the following:
tell application “Finder”
set bounds of window 1 to {202, 103, 817, 508}
end [...]

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I consistently transfer all images off of my MacBook. I don’t keep an iTunes library (who needs one with a satellite player)? With an 80GB hard drive, I am constantly fighting to find space to download the latest software versions, transfer images from a CF card to my hard drive for editing, then [...]

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Finally, a year later, I’ve installed Leopard. It’s been a slow progress as it required copying all the photos from my hard drive and any other documents I had wanted to preserve. I know this wasn’t necessary, but in case the install failed, I wanted to have everything backed up. Once all [...]

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