Tag: bug fixes

How to make sure you will always have a responsive Mac

August 04, 2009 by Jason

Whether you are talking about your car, phone, dog, your favorite football player or even about trying to make the best out of your work day, speed is one of the things – if not the most important – that always come up. The same theory applies to your Mac and the way you want it to respond to your commands.

There are countless pieces of advice you can find on the Internet telling you what you can do to make sure that your Mac is as responsive as you want it to be. However, although some of those tips will show you the right path to achieve that, others have nothing to do with improving the speed of your Mac’s OS X system.

What you can do to make sure you are not doing daily maintenance work on your Mac with no effect just because someone told you that, let’s say, is to repair the disk permissions. Actually, when repairing the disk permissions, OS X will just examine files and folders on your hard drive to check if their current permissions are set the way they were supposed to be.

If the permissions are different from the expected ones, they will be changed to their correct settings. That is only one of the many suggested practices users will wrongfully perform on a daily basis when noticing that their Mac is getting a little sluggish and unresponsive. Read More»

Notepad++ Version 4.0 Available

February 02, 2007 by Jason

The best text editor, Notepad++ just got even better with the latest 4.0 release. Whether you are a serious coder or if you just need to edit a few text files, then Notepad++ is the text editor for you.

Old versions of Notepad++ included tabbed editing so that you could have multiple files open in one instance. One feature which I really appreciate is the syntax highlighting, which helps me understand how my theme works and how to edit it.
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