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Periodic forced task-switch in Win7 on a Macbook

Asked by 5par. : 30 April 2012 - 05:32 PM

Answered by 5par. : May 07 2012 06:55 PM
DXDiag reports DirectX 11; tool version number is 6.01.7601.17514. The graphics adapter is a Radeon HD 6490M. Driver is v8.812. Yeah, that's old, but I've been nervous about installing AMD... full answer >
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Five must-known commands for Mac OS X Terminal

By d1taylor : 25 April 2012 - 05:50 AM
If you're an old-time Unix or Linux user like me, you know that one of the best parts of Mac OS X is that it includes a full command line world based on NetBSD under the hood. In fact, I always ha...
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How-to Develop IOS 5 Apps with iCloud Capabilities

By kevlangdo : 16 January 2012 - 03:22 AM
iCloud is Apple's contribution to the new cloud mouvement that is sweeping the IT world. What is different with Apples's offering is that developers can use it in their own applications withou...
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Access 2010: Missing Manual for Mac as well as Windows?

Asked by FranV : 12 December 2011 - 11:18 AM

Answered by nanbarber : Dec 20 2011 10:19 AM
Hello Fran, There is no version of Microsoft Access for the Macintosh. The Office 2011 suite for Macintosh (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook) is covered in Office 2011: The Missing Manual, by C... full answer >
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What eBook reader software has the best search feature?

Asked by guod : 17 November 2011 - 07:03 AM

Answered by ruby2011 : Dec 18 2011 05:11 AM
Free open source ebook reader and converter- Calibre. Support windows, Linux and mac osx. It has built-in search function and much powerful than Kindle app. full answer >
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How to revert Mac OS X Lion's Dashboard to Snow Leopard Behavior

By msilver : 22 September 2011 - 09:36 AM
If you would rather have Mac OS X Lion's Dashboard work like it did in Snow Leopard, there's a checkbox in the Mission Control system preferences to enable or disable the Dashboard in its own ...
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An Introduction to Grand Central Dispatch

By chco : 27 July 2011 - 12:58 AM
Grand Central Dispatch, or GCD for short, is a low-level C API that works with block objects. The real use for GCD is to dispatch tasks to multiple cores without making you, the programmer, worry abou...
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A Short Introduction to Block Objects in Objective-C

By chco : 26 July 2011 - 01:44 PM
Block objects are packages of code that usually appear in the form of methods in Objective-C. In this excerpt from Concurrent Programming in Mac OS X and iOS the author speaks to their purpose and use...
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DocBook Video Tutorial 1 – Setting up Xcode 4 and SVN

By VandadNP : 16 April 2011 - 07:31 AM
In this video, I will show you how you can set up your environment for writing books using DocBook on Mac OS X. This is the first video in the series of 4 videos that I'm preparing, showing author...
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Renaming Multiple Files in Mac OS X

By VandadNP : 13 April 2011 - 03:38 AM
Ever wanted to rename multiple files in Mac OS X? Well, here is your answer... Learn more about this topic from iOS 4 Programming Cookbook. You can build a variety of amazing apps on the iOS ...
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