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Category Archives: Solutions
“Recording device error” of Skype for Mac
If you’re using a USB sound card with a headset, the solution is simple as it can be: reconnect your USB sound card.
Restoring Windows on a PC after installing Bootcamp
After installing Bootcamp 3.0 on a PC running Windows Vista (I was experimenting with Apple Aluminium Keyboard drivers), the system started BSOD’ing on startup with an error related to AppleMnt.sys.
Inability to upload files using any browser on Windows
One my friend who runs Windows XP encountered a strange problem: she couldn’t upload any large (more than ≈100 KB) files using upload forms on websites under any browser. We tried Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome with no result, although … Continue reading
Slow startup and sleep problems on MacBook Pro 2,2
Once I noticed that the booting process of my MacBook Pro 2,2 extended to 5-7 minutes (the longest phase of the startup process was the blue screen which usually appears right before the desktop) and additionally, sleep (hibernate) mode stopped … Continue reading
“Building boot caches” error when changing startup disk
Once I tried to change the default startup disk on my Mac running Snow Leopard and the following error appeared: “you can’t change the startup disk to the selected disk. Building boot caches on boot helper partition failed”.
“Failed to expand the files” error
Getting “failed to expand the files” while installing Canon camera software, such as ZoomBrowser Ex? Just turn off your antivirus.
BBEdit preview shows raw PHP code
If your BBEdit preview shows raw PHP code, go to “Preferences” and configure a “HTML web-site” with “Use local preview server” ticked.