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“What can you make me without butter?”

I always thought this was strange.  When I tab through a web form, OS X skips over select menus, forcing me to click it with the mouse.  Very tedious.  But I’m so lazy, it took a year and change for me to Google it.  And it’s just a stupid system preference.
http://www.tonyspencer.com/mt/archives/2006/05/tab_skips_selec.htm

Here’s a thorough tutorial of how to best backup your Mac.

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Fedora Core 5 will go on the $100 laptop - but how usable is it? Screenshots and complete review from a usability perspective.

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I feel silly writing this, but more than that I feel obliged to try and help my fellow moron.

Twice now I’ve had a DVD get stuck in my Mac Book Pro.  There are several ways to force eject a CD/DVD, though my favorite (the one I remember) is to boot while holding down the mouse button.  But I just figured out what my real problem was.  Windows XP, running in Parallels, was mounting my DVD instead of OS X.  That’s why I couldn’t mount or eject it from OS X.

There are already 12 million documents out there claiming to explain this, but for one reason or another I couldn’t get any of them to work as written. This one works.

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