Articles posted on October 13th, 2009

Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard): Accidental Caps Lock Defense for laptops only?

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009 • 3:53 pm

Following my recent posts about the Accidental Caps Lock Defense feature in Snow Leopard, I have received another e-mail from a reader pointing out article HT1192 in Apple’s Knowledge Base, which says: Intel-based Apple Portables: Caps Lock modified to reduce accidental activation Last Modified: March 18, 2009 Article: HT1192 Summary Pressing the Caps Lock key […]

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Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard): Accidental Caps Lock Defense not gone for everyone

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009 • 9:42 am

Since I wrote about the apparent disappearance of the Accidental Caps Lock Defense on my system following the Mac OS X 10.6 upgrade, I have received several e-mails from readers indicating that the feature still works on their machine, even with Snow Leopard running. Two of these e-mails come from people with MacBooks, i.e. with […]

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Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard): Application launching and file opening bugs

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009 • 9:27 am

I must say I am quite disappointed with the bugginess of Snow Leopard. I am not talking about small, niggling bugs here. Snow Leopard has its share of them, like any other significant OS upgrade. What I am talking about is a series of more significant bugs that severely impact usability. One has to do […]

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