Category Archives: Solutions

Tips, fixes, walkarounds.

Get rid of “Steam Content” from Documents in Mac OS X

Posted on May 15, 2010 by Dae

Steam brought a bad habit from Windows to Mac OS X — placing program related files into user’s documents folder. The folder is called “Steam Content” and it appeared in “Documents” right after I installed Steam onto my Mac yesterday. … Continue reading →

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“Steam is temporarily unavailable” problem

Posted on May 7, 2010 by Dae

Recently I installed Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 onto my Windows 7 x64, and it replaced the built-in Windows firewall (there was an option to do so while installing, and I deliberately chose it). Everything was fine except the next day … Continue reading →

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“Recording device error” of Skype for Mac

Posted on April 5, 2010 by Dae

If you’re using a USB sound card with a headset, the solution is simple as it can be: reconnect your USB sound card.

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Restoring Windows on a PC after installing Bootcamp

Posted on March 18, 2010 by Dae

After installing Bootcamp 3.0 on a PC running Windows Vista (I was experimenting with Apple Aluminium Keyboard drivers), the system started BSOD’ing on startup with an error related to AppleMnt.sys.

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Скрипт для замены основного шрифта сайта

Posted on January 22, 2010 by Dae

Я написал небольшой скрипт для файрфоксовского плагина GreaseMonkey, заменяющий основной шрифт сайта на Helvetica Neue. Это имеет смысл в тех случаях, когда дизайнер сайта использовал шрифт, отсутствующий на вашей Mac OS X, а предлагаемая им же замена выглядит намного хуже … Continue reading →

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Inability to upload files using any browser on Windows

Posted on January 17, 2010 by Dae

One my friend who runs Windows XP encountered a strange problem: she couldn’t upload any large (more than ≈100 KB) files using upload forms on websites under any browser. We tried Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome with no result, although … Continue reading →

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Slow startup and sleep problems on MacBook Pro 2,2

Posted on January 17, 2010 by Dae

Once I noticed that it has been taking up to 5–7 minutes for my MacBook Pro 2,2 to boot (the longest phase of the startup process was the blue screen which usually appears right before the desktop) and additionally, sleep … Continue reading →

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“Building boot caches” error when changing startup disk

Posted on December 11, 2009 by Dae

Once I tried to change the default startup disk on my Mac running Snow Leopard and the following error appeared: “you can’t change the startup disk to the selected disk. Building boot caches on boot helper partition failed”.

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“Failed to expand the files” error

Posted on December 10, 2009 by Dae

Getting “failed to expand the files” while installing Canon camera software, such as ZoomBrowser Ex? Just turn off your antivirus.

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BBEdit preview shows raw PHP code

Posted on December 10, 2009 by Dae

If your BBEdit preview shows raw PHP code, go to “Preferences” and configure a “HTML web-site” with “Use local preview server” ticked.

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