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Problem been reported that finder stop responding when trying to list folder with big TIFF files. Requires relaunch finder to browse correctly till next folder. Very annoying especialy when you copying at the same time and restarting finder stop all finder operations (copying,moving etc). Seen on Mac Pro (mid 2010) and some latest iMacs. Symptoms: When you opening folder with .tiff files in Icon view (in other view modes seems works fine) finder shows few preview icons and only placeholders of other previews and stop responding. If you look on activity monitor you will see CPU at 100%! You can wait endlessly at it will not start responding until relaunch. Reinstalling system doesn't solve the problem. If connect disk to another computer it browse same folder fine. Disk check also not show any problems in filesystem. Problem is in hardware to be more concrete - CPU. As I discovered its Hyper Threading related bug. Seem that Snow Leopard`s finder use algorithm that treats HT inco

Recently Аpple released one of most awaited software suite - iLife 2011. There was no 2010 release last year so people was waiting for serious improvements after for two year development. Rumors was it will be 64 bit. But unfortunately it was just speculations . In this release Apple show losing of potential as a software developer. No 64 support - strange enough for 64 bit OS core. Under unknown reasons iDVD was dropped and finally the worse thing - iPhoto has been released unfinished. Needless to say that iPhoto is the most important part of suite since photography is one of the last professional sphere of use Macintosh computers. Many serious photographers, freelancers and even professional studios use iPhoto as main tool for their photo database because it very simple gives ability of fast navigation through huge numbers of photos -simply find the chosen one and export or edit it. I saw iPhoto since version 3 how it pa

Simple thing - transfer contacts from Mac (PC) to new phone turns into problem. Using latest Blackberry Desktop Manager I connect Torch and when it comes to transfer contacts from computer to phone error message appears - contacts synchronizing problem - everything else syncs fine! Having in mind phone is empty so there are no possible conflicts. Error message refers to some kind of KB article, but there was no executive solution. Solution is simple, but it was hard to find. You have to connect your Torch to the Internet and point browser (on the phone) to blackberry.com/messenger There is an update for messenger (it responsible for address book on device) and after downloading and update problem with syncing contacts is gone! Resuming this problem occurs with new desktop manager and Blackberry old version messenger.

This is the first successful firmware over the air (FOTA) update for Milestone in Russia. There are not much serious updates and improvements, but it first step to prepare for the serious 2.2 update which will arrive lately this year. The most noticeable features - music not suddenly started when you unplug headphones!!! yeah! So many people reported about this bug and was waited for the fix. Next one, IMHO, useful improvement is ability to set time before autolock turns on. I personally turns screen off using power button to avoid accidental screen touches. Sometimes just after I turn it off I need to turn it back to make something. Before this update, it was required to unlock phone again -a bit annoying. Now if you turn screen off there is a period (10 mins by default) before phone will be locked. So you can turn screen off but not lock phone immediately! Among this there are few more fixes. Improved memory accessing so phone become more stable now. At least random self reboot

This post does not contain any real technical solution - just info for you (as a consumer). So, after giants of industry such as Canon, Nikon, Sony and so on start their race for megapixels, most people who no familiar with photography goes crazy about what camera to buy ? There are a lot of guides on how to choose and what are main specification you going to look for etc. I`m going to say few words about compact cameras particularly. I presume that you know how good picture achieves. Physical sensor dimensions plus good optics making as much as possible of light information comes to sensor`s surface. Thats how it works. In DSLR cameras there are few high end models with full 35mm sensor size and you can choose lenses from cheap (about 200$) up to expansive about 30,000 $ to make your picture looks perfect (technically of course). In compact cameras world it is much more complicated. Since there is no possibility to change lenses what for do we need big sensor ? This may sounds stup

Few words before. When it comes with idea to make cheapest netbook with OSX , I start looking for different hackintosh distros to make it possible . It looks simple at first, but after trying with Leo and tiger I found out few problems with incompotability - because this netbook made of latest chips so tiger and leo have problems with SATA driver (no hard disk access), video - GMA950/945. The best try was iDened and Empire EFI (with original Snow DVD)- at least I was able to install it, while iAtkos, Kaleway have more problems with installation itself. Finaly, I found one more Snow Leopard installation - Hazards DVD. So .... Specifications of this device are: CPU - Intel Atom N270 1,6 GHz RAM - 1 Gb DDRII 667 HD - 160 Gb SATA Chipset - Intel GMA 945GSE (buil it graphics) (native screen mode 1024x600 32 bit) LAN - Atheros (Attansic) L1e v2 WiFi - Broadcom BCM4312 chip (with firmware not compotabile with original Airport kext) Its possible! Yeah! Only few things to remember - still (