Here’s an obscure one, about as far from Frequently Asked as you can get, but if it can help but one stumbling interneter then it was worth the typing.
If you’re getting getting an error on your Mac whenever you try to use the built-in iSight camera complaining that “Your camera is in use by another application“..
and you’ve made dag-nabit sure there’s no other iSight hogging app running…
and you’ve rebooted…
and you’ve cmd-opt-P-R-ed…
and you’ve Software Updated…
and you’ve tried every hair-brained tip from every far-flung forum that comes [snip...]
Everything from HTML &ersand commands, to Regular Expressions, to Japanese emoticons.
The most meta of cheat sheets is available here.
[via lifehacker]
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Posted 13 June 2007
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The Issue
I’m an email pack rat. I find old email messages extremely useful in the course of my work, and I accumulate gigabytes worth of them over the course of a year. But they’re only useful to me if I can find them when I need them.
I use the Thunderbird email client on Windows and found its email searching to be slow when slogging through my thousands of archived message (even when stored on local disk). So I hit on the idea [snip...]
It’s a good thing that fancy warranty covers accidental damage.
But in the meantime your final presentation is scheduled in three days, you haven’t even finished the bibliography, and the depot says it’ll be at least a week to replace the chewed up power supply.
Perhaps you didn’t know we have selection of high-quality portable computing devices with convenient padded shoulder bags available for a short-term borrow?
Yes, the rumors are true. Thayer Computing Services loans laptops.
We’ve got a pool of mostly Dell and a few Mac laptops [snip...]
Well, ok. Chances are the whole internet isn’t really going to break, unless another fire breaks out underneath a Boston subway station.
But, much as we try to avoid it, sometimes a small piece of our own corner of the internet here at Dartmouth goes down. And, naturally, when that happens you call us, wondering why you haven’t received any email in the past half hour. Or how come you aren’t able to open your hosted database.
But did you ever wonder how we know? [snip...]
