To turn off Safe Sleep, enter the following code in the Terminal and then press enter: sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0 To delete the Safe Sleep image, enter this and then press enter: sudo rm /private/var/vm/sleepimage And, if you want to turn Safe Sleep back on again, enter this and then press enter: sudo pmset -a hibernatemode [...]
Windows cannot boot with Fatal Error: No Free Memory for XSDT Parallels Desktop 7 for Mac Parallels Desktop 6 for Mac Symptoms Windows cannot start showing black screen with the error message: Cause Slic loader application that was previously installed on your Windows system doesn’t support WAET functionality. WAET stands for Windows ACPI Emulated Device Table. It [...]
With prior versions of OS X, Apple included a “Reset Password” Utility that you could use to reset forgotten passwords for accounts on the system. But in the recovery options Lion, this is missing from the “Utilities” menu where it used to be. While the program is no longer available through the Utilities menu, it [...]
If you find you have reached 5 authorizations, you can reset your authorization count by clicking Deauthorize All in the Account Information screen. Click iTunes Store in the menu on the left side of iTunes. If you’re not signed in to the store, click the Account button, then enter your account name and password. Click [...]
Aperture unexpectedly quits when opening. The common blame for this is Boot Camp. So it is recommended to add the Boot Camp Partition to Spotlight Exclusions (System Preferences > Spotlight > Security) If that fails to work then: 1. Navigate to: /Library/Frameworks/PluginManager.framework/Versions/B/PluginManager 2. Delete the PluginManager 3. Get a clean copy of the PluginManager and [...]
The default screenshot is: Press Cmd-Shift-3 to create a picture file on your hard drive, in the PNG graphics format, that depicts the entire screen image. A camera-shutter sound tells you that you were successful. The picture will be on your desktop. You can open this file in anything that opens PNG files, like Preview and Photoshop. [...]
The Super Bowl XLVI live streaming to your Mac or iOS devices for U.S. viewers. Using Microsoft’s Silverlight plugin, Mac users will be able to see the game live streaming. iPad users will see the video play in their browser both via Full-Screen and AirPlay to be supported. So watch anywhere as it kicks off [...]
Serious issues have been found by many users since the release of 10.7.3 and 10.6 Security Updates. The 10.7.3 update has been pulled in favor of the combo updater, which does not seem to have the CUI error. And those with 10.6 that had updated to the recent security patch found themselves unable to run [...]
Apple just release an update to Lion, 10.7, that includes Safari 5.1.3. As it’s downloading I hope they have fixed the Wi-Fi issues and Safari issues like they claim to have done in the release notes. You can launch Software Update and get it that way. Or I recommend going directly to the source and [...]