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This post is a response to an article on the not correct blog.  It describes a method for turning your desktop into a dropbox folder, useful if you want to keep your desktop sync’d across multiple macs automatically.  It’s possible to also sync across PCs but this post references macs only, review the not correct [...]

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Fixed the too low volume on bootcamp partition

by abrown on October 22, 2010

If the sound on your windows bootcamp partition is too low, try selecting loudness equalization.  Works for Realtek and Cirrus Logic drivers above.

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Well you can bet if both browsers aren’t working in the same way it’s some component that’s affecting both browsers.  I’m smart like that.  Turns out that I had installed Speed Download found it to be overkill and uninstalled it with  AppCleaner .  Although AppCleaner usually does a good job this time the install was [...]

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Uninstalling Saft from Safari

by abrown on March 15, 2009

First of all, don’t install Saft [aaargh!] to your Safari browser.  Classic piece of annoyance-ware that won’t leave you alone until you buy it and won’t uninstall without several hours of internet research.  Here are the relevant files to delete that don’t require you to gain root access to your computer which might end up [...]

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Detecting and Removing Spector from your MAC

by abrown on November 29, 2008

Spector is a keylogger for the MAC. If you find the spyware on your computer then someone with access to it has trust issues. Spector is supposed to be invisible to the user but it is a resource hog. In addition to spying on your activities it will begin to slow your computer. You may notice this during startup.

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