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New Mac section added

January 27th, 2010

Today I added a new Mac section on http://www.basvandijk.eu/mac/. This section might be helpful for people who just started using a Mac and do not yet know which software can be useful.

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Fixing SFWordProcessing plugin error in OSX

January 11th, 2010

If for example Pages crashes telling you and error occurred with the SFWordProcessing plugin. The steps below might be a solution:

  1. Make sure all applications are closed!
  2. Open Font book.
  3. Scroll down to the Hoefler font and ctrl + click on it.
  4. Choose “Remove Hoefler Text Family”
  5. Download the new Hoefler font.
  6. Extract the Hoefler.zip file and place it in: Macintosh HD/Library/Fonts
  7. Launch Pages or iWeb and the everything should work as usual.
Hoefler

Hoefler

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Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Compatibility List

August 27th, 2009

If you are wondering about whether your software will run on the new OSX Snow Leopard this is definitely a site to check out. Wikidot listed lots of OSX software and the how they run on Snow Leopard.

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Benchmark your OSX system

August 26th, 2009

Xbench is a tool which benchmarks your Mac. It runs several tests like: harddisk, memory, cpu, graphics and more. The nice thing: it is free :D

Results after running xbench

Results after running xbench

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Display rotation menu for OSX

March 19th, 2009

The monitor I am working on is a Samsung 244T. This monitor has the capability of rotating from landscape to portrait mode. OSX supports rotating the screen, but to do so you need to go trough a lot of menus.

Display Rotation menu icon

Display Rotation menu icon

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