Tag Archives: os x

Change Your Display’s Gamma to Match Snow Leopard

June 12th, 2009

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One of the smaller refinements included with Snow Leopard will be the changing of the default gamma level from 1.8 to 2.2, which is the default for TVs and the current standard for Windows. Gamma affects the contrast on your screen; a higher level means higher contrast. To get the higher gamma level in Leopard, […]

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Sync Nearly Any Device With iTunes

June 6th, 2009

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A while back, Richard wrote a post about Syncing your Sansa Fuze with iTunes. While the post did help a lot of people, it required running a script and became quite problematic for some. The purpose of the post was to help out a select number of people who had the Sansa Fuze, but still […]

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Resizing HFS+ Partitions

June 5th, 2009

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Most everyone, including yours truly, has at some point needed to resize partitions or make new ones. Unfortunately, dare I say it, unlike Windows, OS X does not have any built in tools to edit the partitions. I will admit that that isn’t necessarily true because you can erase and reformat current partitions but, like […]

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Booting Ubuntu Linux with the Chameleon bootloader

May 16th, 2009

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***Credit goes out to RCC2k7 over Ubuntu Forums. He wrote the instructions; I just made them easy to find.*** Ubuntu and Chameleon: wouldn’t it be great if they got along? You could completely ditch Windows and simply run Linux and Mac OS X. By default, you are unable to do so.  The issue lies with […]

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10.5.7 Download

May 12th, 2009

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***Instructions for installing 10.5.7 are up and can be found here*** Just wanted to make a quick note and say that if you are going to be so kind and help out testing 10.5.7, go to the download page on apple.com instead of through Software Update. Software Update and Apple.com use different servers and right […]

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