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How-To: How to Fix a Faulty Multitouch Trackpad

Occasionally the Really Cool Thing on your MacBook or MacBook Pro stops working the way you want it to. And you get frustrated. Per MacFixIt, a number of users have found that their multitouch trackpads on MacBook and MacBook Pro computers may randomly stop accepting 3 and 4 finger gestures. Although two-finger scrolling, tapping, and […]

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Some MacBook Pro Owners Reporting Strange Noises, Errors with 7200 RPM Hard Drives

Some owners of Apple’s latest MacBook Pros with faster 7200RPM hard drives are reporting strange clicking and beeping noises along with performance issues. According to MacNN, though the cause of the problem is unclear, an Apple Support forum thread has many users suggesting that it is caused by an incompatibility between the Seagate hard drive’s […]

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How-To: First Mac OS X 10.5.7 Problems Reported, Fixes Offered

Apple’s Mac OS X 10.5.7 update has been released, none of my Macs are on fire and I consider this a good thing. Still, there’s bound to be problems and the hep cats at MacFixIt have begun to collect reports on a couple of outstanding issues: Blue Screen This update may automatically restart your computer […]

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How To: Get Around Unibody MacBook Pro Freezes During Screenshots

As exciting and cool as your new unibody MacBook Pro may happen to be, there may be some bugs to sort out. According to MacFixIt, a number of users have posted to the Apple Discussions board complaining that the screenshot function on their late-2008/unibody MacBook Pro notebooks cause the system to freeze for a few […]