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MacBook Pro Battery is Not Charging

June 14, 2009 – 10:17 pm

My MacBook Pro has had it’s fair share of power issues. First was the charger melting, then the battery went from fairly healthy to only holding a five minute charge. Those two problems solved I’ve been given a new one to tackle.
My MacBook Pro flat out refused to charge the battery. The message [...]

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OpenOffice Multiple Page Layouts in One Document

January 16, 2009 – 11:18 am

To Use Landscape and Portrait Page Orientation in the Same Document:

Click on “Format” -> “Styles and Formating.” Then create a new page style with landscape orientation.
Click on the first paragraph where you want the new page orientation to begin.
Click on “Format” -> “Paragraph.”
Click the “Text Flow” tab.
Under “Breaks,” enable “Insert.” Then enable “With Page Style.” [...]

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Are iTunes App Store Prices Too Low?

December 14, 2008 – 8:21 pm

If you sell something for $100 people will say it should be $90 you can sell the same thing for $90 and people will say it should be $70. Produce apps that are worth more than $0.99 and people will buy them.

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Google’s Mac Picasa Uploader Installs More Without Asking

December 9, 2008 – 7:39 am

If you recently installed Google’s Picasa Web Albums Uploader you got a little more than you bargained for. open “LaunchAgents” folder and delete the “com.google.keystone.agent.plist” file I hate applications that check for updates without asking me.

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