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Snow Leopard saving file issue....

Most users after migrating Mac OS X from 10.5 (Leopard) to 10.6 (Snow leopard) reports about application crash during saving files. Particularly with Adobe Photoshope CS3 and 4, also with MS Office applications. After investigating this issue , has been found that it coursed by errors in Spotlight mechanism. So, until Adobe and Apple works to solve this problem there is an ultimate solution. Sympthoms of the problem: when saving files (e.g. in Photoshop CS4) , application crashes with error message. All changes lost. Solution: Make a new user account and transfer all files and settings there. Now everything will work fine! Looks like only users who previously migrated from Tiger to Leopard now got this problem. Most of users who installed Leopard from scratch have no such problem whatsoever !

Fixing Excel 2007 crash

Been upgrading since my last post so have some new solutions for some unsolved system problems. Simpthoms: First is Excel... after new system installation , installed Office 2007 enterprise and found that everything work fine but excel. When I stat it and open file or double click Excel file (no matter what kind of) Excel start...open files.. and crash closing app. Very strange because I had the same installation on same system (Vista 64 SP2) and it works without problems. So I start digging. Trick with DDE check mark doesn't work - well it stop crashing but more often file not found problem appears. I saw several solutions on MS forums but most of them regarding Excel 2003 and mess up with previous installations - not my case anyway! Analyzing situation I clear understood that the only problem can be are third-party add-ins that somehow incorrectly initializing by excel. So , I have only 2 of them - Adobe Acrobat PDF add-in, and Asus (Widcomm) Bluetooth send add-in.

Asus: to be or not to be..... ?

This post will not include any helpful or technical info - just thoughts... After a long time testing different motherboards since 1998 year, finally, in 2004 I came to Asus. It was strong, solid brand with lots of positive reviews, awards and some nice innovations that makes their boards outstanding for most of serious users. But time passes and I see that company grows capturing new directions on market such as notebooks, mobile phones, PDA , netbooks and so on. But as for me - I prefer Asus only because of its motherboards and accessories. To be honest - I checked Asus notebooks - nothing interesting or special even in their Lamborghini series. Same "not so good" quality and lifetime. Very primitive technology. When I first test Asus smartphones - also was disappointed because of bad quality materials, sound, ergonomic (more like Russian cars) - same shit as Glofish, Rover. Not even Samsung or LG. So I thought to myself - company have its base in computer componen

Upgrading Motorola Q gsm to WM 6.1

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Im going to show you how to upgarde your MotoQ GSM from WM6 to WM 6.1 (Its not official way - only for non locked phones) Do at your own risk! Warranty voids! Whats the point ? + You got nice Sliding panel home screen control + Location services based on GSM base station (alternative GPS) + Built-in Java (its back! I really miss it on Motorola Q coz need to install Jeodek version) + Cut`n`Paste function - very needful ! + Save Bluetooth received files to any location ! (including SD card) + latest Mobile OS version with new office mobile and latest improvements! First of all you need RSDlite: http://www.filebam.com/download/62284-d ... 145827.rar Mirror: http://www.sendspace.com/file/rq6is9 Firmware itself: http://rs354l33.rapidshare.com/files/12 ... 41_1FF.rar Now you have files and we ready to start. First , don't forget to backup your phone memory data. All data from phone memory will be erased! I'm not sure if Sprite Backup will be fine for this because we going to upgra

Installing Leopard 10.5.x on VMware

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SUPPORT APPLE: Buy a license for Leopard if you are going to use this! EDUCATIONAL ONLY: This is for educational purposes ONLY. Not to be used in a productive or commercial environment . Unlike Tiger hackintosh installations, installing Leopard need some tricks to make it work. First of all, you need VMware version 6.5 or above. I will show installation process for AMD system, I guess on Intel systems it is about the same. So, you need to get Leopard AMD patched image or CD, at least 20 Gb of hard drive space and not less then 1Gb of RAM. Create a new Leopard VM Go to File >> New Virtual Machine and create a new VM (you should be familiar with this if you installed Tiger on VMware) Choose Custom and not typical Set the Hardware Compatibility to Workstation 6 and click Next Set the guest OS to "Other" and set the Version to "FreeBSD 64-bit" Give the virtual machine a name, and preferrably store it in a different partition from the one you are running Window