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Comment by Vickash on Monitor not displaying color red. Is this the monitor...

Try a different cable. From what you've said it's the only thing you haven't swapped out.

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Comment by Vickash on Monitor not displaying color red. Is this the monitor...

Could be, especially if it's the only thing common to all the setups you've tried.

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Comment by Vickash on Scrolling or resizing windows are no longer smooth on...

Exactly what do you mean by "not smooth"? Is the animation jerky? Are there graphic artifacts?

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Comment by Vickash on Using OS X Lion on a main SL mac - use USB key instead...

Alternatively, you could just upgrade the clone (external drive) to Lion, leaving the main drive (inside the machine) on SL, since the OP says they intend to continue using mainly SL. Then plug in the...

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Comment by Vickash on Is "The disk copy of 'filename.psd' was changed...

It could be that it synced to another machine, which added some metadata to it automatically, then synced back to your machine, so it looks to Photoshop as if it's changed, when only the file's...

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Comment by Vickash on If I use LaunchBar can I disable Spotlight?

You're right. I used mdutil to disable indexing for a drive, but let LB continue to index it while moving some files around. It picked up the changes, but was missing most of the metadata. So I guess...

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Comment by Vickash on Indenting html + javascript/css

Sublime Text is another good choice: sublimetext.com

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Comment by Vickash on How can I start postgres automatically on startup?

launchd is definitely the recommended way to go. I like Lingon (peterborgapps.com/lingon/index.html) for setting up the tasks. Easier than messing with plist files.

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Comment by Vickash on Are "generic" Optical Bay Hard Drive Enclosures for...

Also make sure you get the right one for your system. Some of the earlier Intel Mac laptops used IDE for the optical drives, and at some point they switched to SATA, which uses a different cable. I...

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Comment by Vickash on Executing program through Terminal

/bin is a great place for scripts meant for all users or the system in general, but user-specific scripts should really reside somewhere within the home directory. Creating a ~/bin folder makes them...

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Comment by Vickash on How can I use application aliases pointing to a...

Spotlight should index aliases but not symlinks. What you've shown is consistent with that, so the error message when trying to launch an app is puzzling. If you have Spotlight turned off for the other...

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Comment by Vickash on H.264 encoded .mp4 not playable on iphone

Have you checked inside the "Videos" app? If it's a video podcast it should show up there. Inconsistent, I know.

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Comment by Vickash on Scheduling a task to repeat at a set interval

LaunchDaemons are definitely the way to go on OS X. If you don't feel like messing with plist files, check out an app called Lingon: peterborgapps.com/lingon/index.html that will create them for you.

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Comment by Vickash on Request for Comment - late 2008 MacBook as starter Mac

You're right. I meant to say 4,2. In his original post he says "Late 2008". If System Information shows that, then definitely 4,2. 4,1 and 4,2 are both virtually the same machine anyway.

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Answer by Vickash for How do I write an AppleScript which auto reconnects to...

Here's a simple Appplescript handler I wrote a while back to solve this exact problem. It pings the OpenDNS server (both of them for redundancy) to check if the internet connection is up. It returns...

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Answer by Vickash for Find out what process is using my HDD

Try running the fs_usage in Terminal (must be run as root):sudo fs_usageThis will start spitting out details of all your disk access right there in the Terminal window. It might go by quickly, but you...

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Answer by Vickash for How to best configure storage for pro level video editing?

Without more details about what camera you're shooting with, and what type of color space and compression you're working with, it's hard to give definitive answers for some of these questions. But...1)...

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Answer by Vickash for Screen Sharing over internet on OS X Lion - cannot...

Most likely you have Observe Mode enabled on your end. In Screen Sharing.app, go to the View menu. You should see an entry for "Switch to Control Mode".

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Answer by Vickash for Problem to change the country of my Apple Store?

I had this problem as well. I thought of maintaining 2 accounts (one for each country) but that just seemed clunky, so I opted for having just one in my "home" country (USA). Which is what I'm guessing...

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Answer by Vickash for Install OS X in VirtualBox on iMac?

I have a SL 10.6.8 VBox running as we speak. It works perfectly, if a bit slowly. I'm about to abandon it for reasons totally unrelated to VirtualBox, but let's see if I can remember everything I did...

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