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UPDATED: Finder not opening files when double-clicked

Matt Neuburg at TidBits explains that Apple has officially documented that Snow Leopard's Launch Services no longer considers a document's embedded Creator Code when determining which application to launch when the file is opened in Finder. This change is new to Mac OS X 10.6 and greater and signals a fundamental change in a long-standing Mac programming code.… Read more

Some assistance for the new 27-inch, Quad Core, Late 2009 iMacs

Apple has just released a few knowledge base articles to help users with issues they may experience when setting up and using their new iMac. These articles cover using the correct Mac OS X system software, what to do if your startup keys do not work with your wireless keyboard, and migrating from Mac OS X 10.5 with wireless migration.… Read more

Snow Leopard: iChat restricting minimum chat window width

Users may experience an issue regarding the minimum width of a chat window in Mac OS X 10.6.2 Snow Leopard's iChat. The issue seems to restrict the window size to approximately 384 pixels, which some users may find too large for their needs (especially when working on smaller notebooks).… Read more

Hack enables 10.6.2 on Atom processors

Upon the release of Apple's update to Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6.2, a noticeable lack of support for Intel's Atom processor was uncovered. The Atom processor is a primary component of many netbooks, famous (or infamous, depending on your point-of-view) for being the starting point of a Hackintosh.… Read more

Overcoming missing AppleTalk printer connectivity in Snow Leopard

A number of people who have just updated to Snow Leopard are still running into printing problems now that Apple has dropped AppleTalk support in OS X. AppleTalk was an old, proprietary communications protocol that was rather slow and inefficient, and in OS X 10.6 Apple removed it in place of more modern printing and networking protocols.… Read more

Addressing nonfunctional "Turn Airport On/Off" settings

Normally you can access your Airport card settings and turn the device on or off, either in the System Preferences or in the system menu. Upon updating to Snow Leopard, however, a number of users have noticed a problem where their Airport cards will not turn off if they're on, and others will not turn on if they're off.… Read more

Snow Leopard 10.6.2: Quick Look is blank after Time Machine restore

Some users experienced an issue after updating to Mac OS X 10.6.2 Snow Leopard where Quick Look produced a blank window with no file preview. These users also recently restored their systems via Time Machine. Files with audio (movies and songs) would continue to play the sound, however the image would remain blank.… Read more

Font issues in Snow Leopard causing iWeb '09 to crash

Users of Apple's popular Web site publishing application, iWeb, are experiencing crashes--an issue which appears to be related to a corrupt font in Snow Leopard. When attempting to open and edit pages in iWeb '09, users are met with a crashing application and an error message citing an issue with the sfwordprocessing plug-in.… Read more

New Audio CDs unmounting after track name lookup

When you insert an audio CD into your computer, by default iTunes will launch and query the Gracenote online database (formerly "CDDB") for information such as the album and track names. This information is then applied to the tracks when they are imported; however, some people are having an issue in Snow Leopard where iTunes will query for the information and then promptly unmount the CD from the system.… Read more

Snow Leopard slow to sleep

Sometimes users experience an issue where Snow Leopard acts slow when commanded to Sleep Mode. This can happen because of background processes timing out or your system getting backed up while RAM is attempting to write to the hard disk during the sleep process (the more RAM you have, the slower the process could be).… Read more