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Day: May 20, 2007

Macintosh Firewire hard drive for open microphone use.

Macintosh Firewire hard drive for open microphone use.

I had to create five edit bays, a few years back, for a Broadcast Journalism program that allegedly got kicked out of a college lab facility for political reasons. Each new edit room was a closet sized room, close to being square in shape which was bad for standing waves. The small size was a problem as each edit bay would have a microphone available for voice overs to video and the close in walls would throw any ambiant sound…

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Utilities for the Mac, Alsoft DiskWarrior.

Utilities for the Mac, Alsoft DiskWarrior.

I put together a small lab of computer work stations to edit short video and audio for the Broadcast Journalism and RTVF in a college. I chose to buy Glyph hard drives as they had a reputation of running quiet for open microphone use. I could hot swap the drives out to keep the edit bays functional, another neat feature. I called their technical support and had a wonderful conversation with a gentleman about how best to keep the dives…

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Speed up Mac 15″ laptop by manipulating Virex.

Speed up Mac 15″ laptop by manipulating Virex.

I had been noticing that my Mac laptop had been running slow ever since I installed VirusScan (McAfee).   The real pain came when I found out that I had to use Firefox when using my blogging software WordPress.   My favorite web browser, Safari, would not work correctly with WordPress.  But here is the pain. Firefox would take forever to load, I mean at least three minutes or longer.   I decided to go into Virex and play with…

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Macintosh computer Keychain problem

Macintosh computer Keychain problem

I had not run Disk Warrior (Alsoft)  for some time and my computer was getting buggy. The computer would not shut down properly. I decided to run that utility and it came up with a whole lot of directory errors. After the utility repaired the directories I had another problem.  My .Mac synchronization would not work. When I went into the Control Panel and clicked on the .Mac icon I got a keychain error and the splash screen looped so…

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