Good, Inexpensive Laptop Feet

Sunday, October 4th, 2009

One of my favorite laptop accessories is/was made by an Oregon company and sold in local Mac Stores. They're the ever useful and popular Dr. Bodelin's laptop bumpers. The laptop bumpers raise the back end laptops up by about 1" or so, dramatically increasing air flow thereby reducing ...

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Snow Leopard: .dmg and .pkg files not opening?

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Like the booboo with .zip files, my installation of Snow Leopard was also having trouble opening .dmg and .pkg files. Installer.app would freeze. Bugger! After a little digging, the simple solution is to delete the "com.apple.finder.plist" file from your /Library/Preferences folder and log out/login or simply reboot. ...

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Snow Leopard: Are your zip files not unzipping?

Sunday, August 30th, 2009

After updating my MacBook Pro to Snow Leopard, I noticed that I was unable to open .zip archives. I use The Unarchiver to open my Mac and PC-compatible archives. When I attempted to open a zip file, Unarchiver had been overtaken by Snow Leopard's "Archive Utility", and the Archive ...

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