VMware Fusion may have a problem accessing the SC Card Reader found on newer Apple MacBook Pro notebooks. According to VMware, this problem is caused because the newer cards are the SD Extended Capacity cards (SDXC) and use the PCIe bus rather than the USB bus that the original SD card slot uses. It’s possible… Continue reading VMWare Fusion Not Reading SD Card in Apple MacBook Pro – Solution
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Apple Computer – Ensuring Best Possible Quality Screen Shots
Summary. Cocktail, from Maintain.se, is a useful utility for Apple Mac computers that allows you to tweak system settings not accessible through the System Preferences. An example of this is the default image format of screen capture images. Screen Capture. Similar to the Snipping Tool in Windows, Apple computers have mechanism for capturing the entire screen… Continue reading Apple Computer – Ensuring Best Possible Quality Screen Shots
Apple OS X 10.7.4 Lion Double-Tap to Drag Touch Pad Gesture Enable in System Preferences Universal Access if Not Working
Follow these instructions if you notice that the double-tap touch pad gesture doesn’t work for dragging items on an Apple notebook or other system using the Magic Track Pad. 1. From the Apple menu, choose System Preferences. 2. Click on the Universal Access button in the upper right. 3. From the Universal Access menu, choose… Continue reading Apple OS X 10.7.4 Lion Double-Tap to Drag Touch Pad Gesture Enable in System Preferences Universal Access if Not Working
Apple Lion Finder Default Setting Hides Drives on Desktop
The default setting for the Finder in Apple OSX Lion 10.7 does not show any drives on the desktop. This may be helpful for beginning users not sure what do do when browsing a hard drive full of system files, programs, and user data. However, when installing downloaded programs (DMG files) that open into virtual… Continue reading Apple Lion Finder Default Setting Hides Drives on Desktop
Apple Computers Featured in Advertising as Product Placement
Apple computers and other products seem to be used in advertising a greater percentage of the time than than their actual market share would suggest. This is likely due to the fact that advertising and graphic design professionals favor Apple and do this as a favor. Some companies pay for their products to be used… Continue reading Apple Computers Featured in Advertising as Product Placement
Apple Dashboard Widgets Using 800MB Virtual Memory While Running in Background
Technology > Apple Summary. Apple Dashboard Widgets sometimes get installed along with other software. For example, if you install software for an HP printer, there is a Widget that gets installed (unless you choose not to). Each widget uses up extra virtual memory and requires some attention from the CPU — slowing down the computer.… Continue reading Apple Dashboard Widgets Using 800MB Virtual Memory While Running in Background