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Fix sound volume issue on MacBook Pro running Windows XP SP3

By Luca Candela | Published: October 2, 2009
Apple doesn’t seem to care too much about the “experience” we’re having running Windows XP on their EXPENSIVE laptops. With OSX 10.5 and 10.6 they ship a sound driver that is simply NOT WORKING PROPERLY, and again, they don’t seem to care too much. Well, if you, like me, are annoyed as hell about this, you [...]
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Get the favicons back on Firefox 3.5 for OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard

By Luca Candela | Published: September 20, 2009
I don’t know why the Mozilla team decided not to show favicons in the bookmark toolbar, but it’s a BAD idea: the toolbar becomes instantly hard to scan and a lot less useful. Luckily there’s an extension for Firefox called Stylish and a script to install once the extension is active that can take care of [...]
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How to install Service Pack 3 for Windows XP on a MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard

By Luca Candela | Published: September 20, 2009
This post is more of a “note to self” than anything else. I spent good part of today fighting against my MacBook Pro, trying to install Service Pack 3 for Windows XP (Bootcamp partition). After a few hours of frustration, I found this link buried in Apple’s support site that contains a workaround. The meat of the [...]
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