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iTunes 12 {international} Days of Christmas
A quick tip for those who have installed iTunes - 12 Days of Christmas app and are experiencing unavailable song/book/show issues on your iOS devices (iPod, iPad, iPhone). You need to make sure your i18n settings are correct: Settings...
Setting free my Sony Blu-ray DVD playback
Believe it or not, I bought my first Blu-ray disk not long ago. It was the evening we went to see Pina Bausch's "Für die Kinder von gestern, heute und morgen" at the BFM. Enthralled by what we'd just...
Change the Swiss currency symbol to CHF in Mac OS X
Mac OS X stubbornly displays the incorrect currency symbol for the Swiss franc: Fr. (or sFr. or SFr. depending on your OS version) instead of CHF which is the correct ISO symbol. This is a problem when invoicing applications rely...
New Mac setup log
I have been contemplating the idea of upgrading my desktop Mac since this spring. The latest 27" iMac (Quad-Core) seemed the perfect candidate, but the release of Apple's 27" Monitor last September made me stick with the Mac Pro...
ø How to Check if Your Gmail Account Has Been Hacked
If you’re worried about email security, Friedbeef's tech offers a step by step guide to help you check and determine if your Gmail account has been hacked or compromised in any way. The guide is detailed and comprehensible, and...
Mail 10.6 “Copy Address” fix
I stumbled on a welcoming Mail fix this morning which restores Leopard's (Mac OS 10.5) “Copy Address” behaviour. In Snow Leopard (Mac OS 10.6), Mail's “Copy Address” contextual menu command copies the name and enclosed the address in angle...
How to fix a Nik Software plug-in crash in Snow Leopard
Since I installed Snow Leopard (Mac OS 10.6) one of my Aperture plug-ins stopped working, crashing Aperture when launched (a horrible experience). I have several of Nik Software's plug-ins installed, but only Dfine 2.0 stopped working properly. Nik Software's...
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