Take this quote from Macworld: When we connected the MacBook Pro to a 2TB Western Digital My Book Studio drive and copied a 1GB file to it from the internal hard drive, we found that it took 23 percent less time over FireWire 400 than over USB 2.0. Duplicating that file using FireWire 400 on […]
Sorry, couldn’t resist the bad joke…. But what is “EMUL.Kext”?  It’s in the extensions directory, and I can’t place it… Well, the only references I can find to this is EMUL.Kext, appears to be part of the EarthMate Userland Library.  The EarthMate User Library provides access to the usb device via libusb and POSIX threads. Target […]
Here’s how to clear the web browser cache, on the majority of the web browsers… Internet Explorer 8 From the Safety menu in the upper right, click Delete Browsing History… . Check Temporary Internet files, Cookies, and History, and then click Delete. Internet Explorer 7 From the Tools menu in the upper right, select Delete […]
What’s a monitor refresh rate? And what does it do? That’s a multifaceted question, but here we go. The “Vertical Refresh Rate” is the number of times a second that the video is displayed on the CRT monitor. (On LCD monitors, a vertical refresh is a fixed rate, and does not change…) Older CRT monitors […]
This could be a sign of database corruption. For Exchange accounts, rather than rebuilding, create a new Identity and let Entourage sync back up. If you do have info in the folders “On My Computer”, then select work off line. Delete the Exchange account THEN do a rebuild. After the rebuild add the account back. Make a duplicate […]
Have you ever noticed this error message? CDSDAudioCaptureSupport.kext “file was installed improperly and cannot be used. This error message is there because you have a copy of Spin Doctor loaded on your computer.  No, this doesn’t mean that you have a gentlemen in a brown coat, breakdancing in your computer…  I mean the Roxio software, […]
Well, I started randomly having Steam report: Steam.exe (main exception): CMultiFieldBlob(pSerialized): Partial field header at end of record This happened after windows froze on a lockup during shutdown… Â The system froze on Shutdown, and it didn’t complete shutting down after 10 minutes…. I was forced to force a power off… To solve this problem: Exit […]
Evidently Safari may appear to hang, and cause slow system response if the Safari Cache files have been corrupted. — Snip — Recently, any time I tried to run Safari on 10.6 caused all apps and the Finder to hang with the spinning beach ball. Force-quitting Safari stopped the problem, but it would occur again […]