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Review: Iomega 2TB Mac Companion Hard Drive | TechCrunch

 

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Review: Iomega 2TB Mac Companion Hard Drive | TechCrunch. This pricing is way off. For 3TB $449 is almost the same as the Time Capsule at $499. A Time Capsule offers so much than this unit. Iomega has never impressed me. I would never buy one myself. Every experience I have had with the company has been to deal with their failures.

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Your Mac OS X startup disc has no more space available for application memory

 

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Force Quit Applications warning on iMac…: Apple Support Communities. Interesting that it lists 3 programs that must be memory leakers. I seem to do better avoiding Firefox and Safari. Can’t really avoid the Finder but that is nice to know that restarting it may fix issues. The solution is below:

I just upgraded the recent version of Safari 5.1.2 for Snow Leopard and it’s supposed to fix the memory leak that’s eating up my RAM.  Hopefully that will fix the problem.

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AirDrop is a Lion/AirPort feature

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You can’t use AirDrop over ethernet, so if you try to connect to a wired machine, it won’t work. Kellow goes into more detail below.

I might have found the reason behind the aforementioned behavior:

The AirDrop feature is apparently a Lion/AirPort-feature, and not a Lion/network-feature, meaning, if the iMac is connected to the network through a cable (RJ45), the above described behavior is the result.

The third issue mentioned, is apparently just how AirDrop works. AirDrop needs to be “activated” by Finder, which opens a ad hoc network though the AirPort. This does limit the use cases a lot.

Now, if only Apple would consider implementing AirDrop in iOS, the use cases would make a lot more sense…

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Built in iSight not working after Lion…: Apple Support Communities

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raspberryaddiction said the solution.

There is a simple fix. Shut down the mac; unplug for 15 seconds. Plug in; wait 5 seconds. Then press the power button once. That should reset the SMU and fix the isight. It did for me.

via Built in iSight not working after Lion…: Apple Support Communities.

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