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How to open or close the CD/DVD drive on a Mac

2009-11-04 / Jay2k1 / Leave a comment

The most common solution is pressing the eject key on the keyboard. If that fails for some reason (in my case the key was not working properly) you could always drag the DVD icon to the trash or right-click (ctrl-click) it and click “eject” – as long as there is a CD or DVD in…

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Embed Video in PowerPoint for Playback on Windows and Mac OS X

2009-09-09 / Jay2k1 / 1 Comment

Have you ever tried to embed video files in PowerPoint? If you managed to do that, have you ever tried to play that presentation on other PCs or even on a mac? It’s a pain in the ass. I haven’t yet reached the point to say it’s impossible, but at least I can say it’s…

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OS X: Finder crashes every 20 seconds

2009-08-12 / Jay2k1 / Leave a comment

Now this was a weird one. The user said he was unable to work because every 20 seconds, his programs in which he was working were hidden and the desktop would show up. He told me he already rebooted the machine. So I opened the End Tasks dialog with Cmd-Alt-Esc and forced a finder restart….

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