Monthly Archives: May 2010

Curious about understanding how Pandora and recommendation engines work?

This Time article is very good in explaining some of the major players, investments and technologies.  I wish every article could be this cited and well written.

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Is your Mac Mini showing less than the installed memory?

Then all is as designed.  ”Hi Beachy, yes they do. Here are the tech specs http://support.apple.com/kb/SP577.  Stefan”  Thanks Fortuny.

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Is your Mac not able to access some websites?

According to this thread it was because of the hardware.  Once he replaced the hardware then he said things were fine.  Still probably a software issue that he fixed.  Excellent suggestions to turn of IPv6 however.  That should always be done … Continue reading

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Is the Mac Dictionary consistently slow at startup?

Then infogeeks2 solution may solve the issue for you like it did for others.  ”I had the same problem. I deleted the files: com.apple.Dictionary.plist com.apple.DictionaryServices.plist from the Users/…/Library/Preferences folder. After that, Dictionary.app took a long time to launch the first … Continue reading

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