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[Macbook]How to Force Restart your Mac Safely

by LeVoltz on 13. Sep, 2009 in How-To

Macbooks can sometimes be a little unreliable and will crash and freeze on you. If you have lots of programs open or the CPU is busy then it will be likely to crash. Here are some instructions on how to restart your mac without having to resort to the power button.

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[Macbook]How to Restart a Frozen Mac Computer

by LeVoltz on 11. Sep, 2009 in How-To

Computers crash and freeze from time to time. It is life and although it shouldn’t happen very often, here is how to deal with a frozen Mac.

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[Macbook] Terminal Command To Improve Spotlight

by LeVoltz on 08. Sep, 2009 in How-To

Spotlight functions excellently most of the time, however sometimes you may need to do a bit of tweaking to got it to work properly. You probably had a situation where spotlight won’t be able to find a file that you know is there. Here are some terminal commands to change hidden spotlight settings, performing more complicated searches and updating the index.

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[Macbook]Remove Macbook Preference Pane

by LeVoltz on 08. Sep, 2009 in How-To

Here is another trick that you can use on your MacBooks. You can easily remove preference panes from System Preferences by control-clicking on it (right-clicking on the preference pane will launch it) and selecting remove preference pane. This only works on the preference panes that you have installed, such as the ones that you see in the ‘other’ section. Aside from control-clicking, you can also do two-finger clicking on the trackpad to remove your preference pane.

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