Downloading, installing, and removing Dashboard widgets has been greatly improved in Mac OS X 10.4.2 and later. For the best widget installation experience, be sure to update to the latest version of Mac OS X 10.4.
In short, when you ran a Dashboard widget for the first time, it was in “test drive” mode, meaning you had to tell Mac OS X you wanted to keep it installed after playing around with it the first time.
A Macintosh Manager administrator can hand out files to members of the currently active workgroup, or to specific users that belong to the active workgroup (Figure 1). This feature is only available when logged in as a Macintosh Manager administrative user, either a Workgroup Administrator or a Global Macintosh Manager Administrator. When logged in to a Panels environment, this feature is found in the File menu. If the Hand Out command is dimmed, bring the Documents Panel to the foreground to make it available.
I searched for “Big Sur,” but saw this article and knew I had to share it.
If you’re going to take the plunge on new SSDs for your new Mac Pro, be sure to have this page handy, because the process looks bonkers.
If your device has a frozen screen, doesn’t respond when you touch it, or becomes stuck when you turn it on, learn what to do.
I’ve had this happen a couple of times on my 11 Pro, and I can never remember the button presses needed to reset it:
- iPad models with Face ID: Press and quickly release the Volume Up button. Press and quickly release the Volume Down button. Then press and hold the Power button until the device restarts.
- iPhone 8 or later: Press and quickly release the Volume Up button. Press and quickly release the Volume Down button. Then press and hold the Side button until you see the Apple logo.
- iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, and iPod touch (7th generation): Press and hold both the Top (or Side) button and the Volume Down buttons until you see the Apple logo.
- iPad with Home button, iPhone 6s or earlier, and iPod touch (6th generation) or earlier: Press and hold both the Home and the Top (or Side) buttons until you see the Apple logo.
This week’s support document looks to answer the following questions:
What are the possible combinations for the internal drives on a Macintosh SE and SE/30?
Turns out, there are a lot of them:
The Macintosh SE chassis is capable of holding two 3.5-inch storage devices. The Macintosh SE and Macintosh SE/30 logic boards use the same amount of space in the Macintosh SE chassis. The Macintosh SE/30 logic board has only one internal floppy-drive connector.
The MMU (memory management unit) page table is limited to 256K. When you install 256MB of RAM in a Quadra 900 or 950, the MMU page table grows a little too big and overwrites the RAM disk portion of memory. Replacing one bank of the 16MB SIMMs with 4MB SIMMS (reducing the total RAM below 256MB) will allow the system to work correctly with the RAM disk enabled.
Here are the steps for uninstalling QuickTime for Windows when using Windows 95.
Apple Support, in an ancient article:
After initializing a hard disk with a 4096 byte block size using FWB Hard Disk Took kit, I could not initialize the volume with Apple RAID 1.5 because the block size was greater than 512 bytes.
Apple RAID does not support these drives, as 512 is the standard maximum for block sizes. It will allow you to format them, but that’s all. No volumes, no mounts, no driver support. This is as designed.
Apple Support, in a PDF:
The following instructions explain how to replace one or more feet on a PowerBook G4 (15-inch) computer.
No word on any wheels.
Press the power button on the front on the iMac computer instead.
You can use the Apple USB Keyboard with all iMac computers, but the circuitry that enables the keyboard’s Power button is not present on the models listed above. Therefore, pressing the Power button on the keyboard will have no effect.
Then, there’s this gem:
The parenthetical product descriptions (Summer 2000) and (Summer 2001) refer to the summer of the Northern Hemisphere.
Learn how to fabricate your own face shield using the following instructions.
These manufacturing instructions should only be used by an expert. Manufacturing the face shields requires professional level expertise in manufacturing and design, and should only be done by professional engineers or machinists in a factory environment.