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10 Aug 2009The Desktop & Screen Saver pane of System Preferences may become unresponsive, if the issue described in this article is occurring.
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20 Jul 2009In Mac OS X 10.5.3 or later, the Back to My Mac tab of MobileMe preferences (in System Preferences) includes a visual status indicator. Back to My Mac’s status is represented by a green, yellow, or red status light (”dot”) next to “Back to My Mac: On” or “Back to My Mac: Off.” This can be a useful tool for diagnosing issues that might occur when connecting to other supported computers via Back to My Mac.
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20 Jul 2009In Mac OS X 10.5.3 or later, the Back to My Mac tab of MobileMe preferences (in System Preferences) includes a visual status indicator. Back to My Mac’s status is represented by a green, yellow, or red status light (”dot”) next to “Back to My Mac: On” or “Back to My Mac: Off.” This can be a useful tool for diagnosing issues that might occur when connecting to other supported computers via Back to My Mac.
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16 Jul 2009When you type your MobileMe password in the .Mac System Preferences pane in Mac OS X v10.4, it may seem to save it with too many dots or bullets.
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1 Jul 2009If you use iChat with a proxy, and both HTTP and HTTPS proxies are defined in Network preferences (in System Preferences), iChat may always use the HTTPS proxy. Learn how you can use iChat with an HTTP proxy in this advanced article.
Filed under: Leopard , Snow Leopard John Gruber mentioned in a recent post about Apple’s Snow Leopard list of Enhancements and Refinements that one of the small adjustments to Snow Leopard will be that the default gamma on displays will switch from the typical 1.8 value to 2.2, which is what is used on TVs as well as being the long-standing default gamma value in Windows. Gamma affects the visual contrast you see on your screen, and a higher value indicates a higher level of contrast.
The outside of the box said "Windows base machine or better", so I bought a Mac.