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Mar 21, 2009

What is the minimal percent on my HD I should have so that it can run without slowing down?

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Software :: How To Use Screenshots More Efficiently

Nov 8, 2009

While studying I often summarize stuff i learned in a word document, and because its handy not to rewrite everything, i used to copy material out of pdf documents. Most of them are protected so i use the program "bildschirmfoto" (I guess its called screenfoto or screenshot in english) which is already installed on leopard.

- So I make the screenshot of the material (selected area)
- I save it to my desktop and then
- Drag it from the desktop to my word document

I guess there is a more comfortable way to do this. Like just select the area I want to screenshot and then dragging or pasting it into my word document - without the need to save it in between.

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Mar 14, 2010

How can i succesfully and efficiently overclock my iMAc g4?

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Aug 26, 2009

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Safari :: Efficiently Delete Excess Favicons?

Mar 17, 2012

Deleting all Safari's favicons often seems to speed up Safari 5.0.6 (in OS X 10.5.8 on a late-2008 Intel MacBook Pro), but it slows me down when I use long Bookmarks lists with generic-looking entries.  I've read that Safari saves a favicon for every site it visits (if it finds one)!  My webpageIcons.db file is 9.8 MB now (versus 156 KB for Bookmarks.plist and 788 KB for HistoryIndex.sk).  Is there an efficient way to save just the favicons my Bookmarks lists use, and delete all the others?  Wouldn't this speed up Safari almost as much as deleting them all?

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MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2008), Mac OS X (10.5.8), Safari 5.0.6

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MacBook :: Spore And Galactic Adventures Run Efficiently On Aluminum

Jun 5, 2009

Will Spore and Spore galactic adventures run efficiently on the aluminum Macbook 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo? I have 2GB of stock RAM, what kind of RAM would you suggest using to upgrade it to 4 GB? I might of used someone else's message from another game, but still..we are in the same situation.

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Jun 4, 2012

I have been using my MBA for over 6 months period and my disk space is getting smaller and looking for some solution to free up some space. Been looking through forum to find out how to permanently delete the trash but is not facilitating much. Also read through forum that back up file and log file also can take up lots of space. I has set up an external hard disk for back up but after 3 months I am not able to back up as my external hard disk also running out of space. As of last error back up I been getting error that I need to back up 80+GB file which my external hard disk does not have efficient space.

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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.4)

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Applications :: Way To Make Safari Load Pages More Efficiently Like Firefox

Jul 29, 2010

Firefox' site rendering is much more fluid than Safari's. Safari loads the BACKGROUND again and again with each click completely upsetting the eye. Firefox has the background steadily black as it is and loads the randomized image properly without any kind of irritation.Is there a way to make Safari load pages more efficiently like Firefox?Or is it just a rendering of all WebKit browsers that behaves like that?

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MacBook Pro :: How Can Handbrake Use More Than 100 Percent Of CPU

Dec 3, 2009

My late 2008 15" MBP 2.8Ghz typically shows a CPU temp above 100 degrees Celsius ~ 216 F when using Handbrake. What is considered a normal operating temperature range? Also Activity Monitor show that Handbrake is using more than 100% of the CPU how is this possible? What does it mean? How can you use more than 100% of the CPU?

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Applications :: Getting A Percent In Numbers?

Mar 8, 2010

I'm having trouble get percentages in numbers. I want to get 5% of one cell and display the answer in another. Whats the formula for this.

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MacBook Pro :: Battery Dies Around 50 Percent?

Oct 10, 2010

The battery on my MBP (2007 2.33 Core 2 Duo) has started to die, just like the three others that came before it. It seems like it's only been a year or so since I got a new battery. Yesterday, I was using it unplugged and the computer shut off when the battery was around 58%. I have never seen a battery shut off that early. The worst I had seen before that was a previous battery that would die around 35%.

A couple questions:

1. Is there something I am doing that is causing my batteries to keep dying so quickly? An Apple Genius told me that keeping the computer plugged in all the time can burn out the battery. I don't really want to bother putting the computer through unnecessary charge cycles to keep up the battery life.

2. Is there any way to recoup some of the lost battery life of my current battery, or is it just dead?

3. In replacing the battery, should I buy another Apple battery from the website, or are there better quality 3rd party MBP batteries?

4. On a side bar, I am thinking about purchasing a new MBP, but I am worried that the battery will have the same problem, and it will be much more of a hassle to fix because everything is internal now. I hate having to hand my computer over to Apple Care for a whole day and be without it.

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MacBook Pro :: Battery Health Only 89 Percent

Nov 3, 2010

So I bought a macbook pro 13" about a month ago. I've been running coconut battery tests on it and the battery health is only at 89%. This is super upsetting to me. I went to the apple store and they ran their diagnostic test only to tell me that my battery is within specification, so they wouldn't replace it. The health they calculated was 91%.

What should I do? This seems unfair to me.
Coconut battery stats:
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Original battery capacity: 5770 mAh
Battery load cycles: 27
Age of your mac: 4 months

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MacBook Pro :: 101 Percent Battery Capacity?

Nov 16, 2010

So I just opened Coconut battery, and it is saying that I have 101% battery capacity. How is that even possible? In the other hand, iStat says 100%.

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Windows On Mac :: Screen Brightness Goes To 100 Percent

Aug 10, 2008

I usually have my screen brightness set to a few ticks above the lowest, but when my screen shuts off (after 3 mins or whatever I have it set to in the control panel) and gets turned on again, the brightness is set to max. If I then drop the brightness by one tick, it drops to where it was set before. It doesn't do this when I close the lid but it does go to full brightness when I restart the computer and as I enter the windows desktop it goes back to what it was set at.

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PowerPC :: ITunes Consuming 12 Percent Of CPU On G4

Sep 26, 2008

I saw itunes consuming 12% of cpu when doing nothing! iTunes in my imac and mb keeps at 0%, why the hell this doesn't happen in the powerbook? Version 8 in the three macs.

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OS X :: Memory Usage Not Going Past 70 Percent

Mar 20, 2010

My iMac has 4Gb RAM and this morning I had a problem with the blued process chewing up memory even though Bluetooth was off and I don't ever use it. After a bit of searching I found the probable cause. Anyway, whilst looking at the above issue, my system was really crawling but the memory usage wasn't over 70% and CPU usage was low too. The swap space usage had jumped up to 4Gb and all the time I was opening new Safari windows researching the issue. The system was getting more and more sluggish and the swap usage was growing but memory usage stayed at 70%. Why wouldn't it use the last 30%?

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OS X :: Mail CPU Usage Spikes To Over 100 Percent

Apr 25, 2010

After using Google and MRoogle I still haven't found a solution for this. Mail CPU usage spikes to over 100% and the MBP gets extremely hot. I then have to force quit Mail. I am using MobileMe and all the lastest updates for Snow Leopard.

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MacBook Pro :: Why Battery Capacity Too Low (33 Percent)

May 7, 2010

I've had my Macbook Pro for just over 2 years and recently bought one of the 2010 models. I'm about to sell my old one but when I downloaded Coconut Battery, I saw that my battery holds a lot less charge than it did when it was new: Have I been doing something wrong or is it just low because the laptop is 2 years old? If it's something I've been doing, I don't want to make the same mistake with my new one.

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OS X :: Flash 10.1 Install Hangs At 95 Percent

Jun 16, 2010

I tried to install Flash 10.1 that's just been released. It hangs at 95% and then does jack all. I can uninstaller but I can't for the life of me get it to install. I flaming well hate Flash but I need it to view the F1 on the BBC.

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Software :: New Battery Will Not Charge Above 47 Percent

Jul 27, 2008

Brand new battery wont charge above 47%. Plug light is green and shows charging.

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MacBook Pro :: Battery Health Went From 88 To 77 Percent In Less Than One Day

Jan 31, 2012

I usually keep my mac connected to AC power and probably once a week I try to drain the battery. It only has 28 cycles. I bought it last year on november and today when I removed the ac power, a little while after I realized that the battery health went from 88% to 77%! What can I do? I am doing everything that mac says to keep a healthy battery!

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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

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MacBook Pro :: Battery Indicater Percent Is Off?

Feb 5, 2012

If I use my battery to 98% and I charge it, it shows it as fully charges. My cycle count is 4 and it is the 13'' mbp. It is 2 weeks old. I already calibrated it.

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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3), I have had this for 2 weeks now.

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MacBook Pro :: Battery Going Down 1 Percent Every 3 Minutes

Mar 31, 2012

I just bought my macbook pro not long ago. around 2months? And my battery is going down really quick. 1% every 3 mins and I only have firefox on and my backlight is turn off. My brightness is turn on to the middle. I was looking at my friends macbook. Doesn't seem to be going down so quickly.

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MacBook Pro (13-inch Late 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)

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MacBook Pro :: Kernel Task Using Over 100 Percent CPU

Apr 19, 2012

I have been experiencing the fan running at high rpm and the computer completely slowing down when there is slight pressure applied to the bottom of my macbook pro. I went on Activity Monitor and it shows kernel_task running at over 100% cpu usage. I have already tried resetting PRAM and SMC but those did not work.

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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

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MacBook Pro :: Battery Is Running Low On 20 Percent?

Jun 5, 2012

my macbook pro not charging. the battery is running low on 20 percent i puted it on charging it says not charging and light in charger is green what the problem can be?

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MacBook Pro, iOS 5.1.1

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MacBook Pro :: Not Charge New Battery Until It Went Down To 2 Percent

Jun 20, 2012

I bought a new battery for my sisters new used MacBook Pro. The instructions with the new battery was not to charge the new battery until it's was down to 2%. And, how many hours should she expect the battery to last until it needs to be charged? This is with normal web surfing with some streaming. The MacBook Pro is a 2.3 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with a 15" screen form @ 2008.

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MacBook Pro :: Laptop Shut Off When Battery Gets Down (5 To 10 Percent)

Nov 23, 2010

I'm having a strange issue with my MBP 1, 1. It's recently picked up a new habit that I find to be rather annoying. When the battery gets down to between 5 and 10%, the laptop will just shut off. No hibernation, no sleep, just a hard shutoff. The battery seems to be in good health; although it does have a high cycle count, I still get around 2 hours of usage out of a charge. I would think that a calibration would solve the problem, but with the hard shutdown, would that even be possible?

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OS X :: MacBook Pro Battery Charge Status At 97 Percent

Dec 22, 2010

So when I bought this the guy said that Apple installed a new battery on it recently. I believe him because when I downloaded the iStat Pro widget it said only 2 or 3 cycles which is because I calibrated the battery. But I just finished charging and the light is green. But it says the charge is only at 97%. I don't see why it should be like this. Also when it's not plugged in the battery only lasts maybe 3 and half hours from just surfing on the internet. But I thought it was supposed to last like 6?(I'm thinking that since mine is an older model, that could be it.

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MacBook Pro :: Battery Drains One Percent Per Minute

Jul 31, 2009

Ok so to start off, my Macbook Pro is around 3 years old. With my original battery having been through 350+ cycles, I had to buy a replacement. So I did some research and found that the Fastmac battery was my best bet for a long-lasting, reliable battery. I would say that Ive had the Fastmac battery for a bout 6-7 months without any problems whatsoever. However, recently Ive been noticing the drastic change in battery life. I installed Coconut Battery yesterday and discovered that my current battery capacity is 2266mAh with the original capacity being 5800mAh and 213 cycles. I also should note that the battery drains 1% a minute with no programs running (besides the Activity Monitor, which showed no strange behavior). Now luckily for me, My Fastmac battery is under a 1 year warranty, however I just wanna verify that it is a fault with my battery and not anything on my Macbook's side causing the battery to drain so quick. The last thing I want is to receive my replacement and then have to go through the same process 6 months later.

Also here is the Battery Information from the System Profiler.
Battery Information:
Battery Installed:Yes
First low level warning:No
Full Charge Capacity (mAh):2266
Remaining Capacity (mAh):1414
Amperage (mA):-1449
Voltage (mV):11421
Cycle Count:213

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MacBook Pro :: Battery Charge Stuck At 99 Percent

Aug 22, 2009

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