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Apple – Support – Discussions – Mail stuck in OUTBOX …
The problem is a corrupt Outbox. I read about this on
the ATT trouble shooting site. Delete the Outbox and
mail will create a new one. This solved my problem with
email sitting the Outbox forever and never being sent.
To be safe, I dragged my Outbox to a [...]

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When I leave my MacBook Air overnight to say do a Time Capsule, I see that it will log itself out unexpectedly and automatically. Kind of wierd, my MacBook Pro doesn’t do that. Some users are having the same issue with the Mac Mini and the only real diagnosis is:
Apple – Support – Discussions – [...]

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I’ve had terrible problems with both iCal and Entourage. With iCal, I first tried to use Google Calendar and then started deleting excessive calendars. Then, when I rebooted, I discovered that I couldn’t see any calendars and also that when I tried to add another calendar with New calendar, iCal just hung.
First thing to [...]

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Apple just release 7.3.2 which is an update for the firmware and the airport utility running on Macs and Windows. Not clear what it has besides bug fixes.
As with most Airport Extreme and Time Capsule fixes, it isn’t seemless. Pokrface has problems with it hanging the access points. Going back to 7.3.1 fixed that problem, [...]

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Hat tip to TUAW apparently, Tnkgrl has figured out how to open up a Superdrive, replace a part and thus make it universally compatible with all computers. Great geekout. OTOH, why go to all the trouble :-)? The photos are really useful so you can disassemble it. The short version is the black bottom comes [...]

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Good news is that the 5.3.2 update looks like it is OK to take for the Airport Utility. Also I’m now using Entourage 2008 and Excel 2008 and that looks like most problems are fixed as well
Apple – Support – Discussions – Any problem with Airport Utility 5.3.2 …
Airport Utility 5.3.2 is quite harmless. More [...]

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I got this Rosewill eSATA so I could plug fast drives into my MacBook Pro. Well, like lots of third party stuff it doesn’t really work. It is faster though, but you can only plug one drive in. At least for me. There are lots of issues with the driver apparently as Silicon Image is [...]

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