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Quick Tip: Boot your Mac in 64 bit mode

I've been tuning Photoshop performance on some decently specced Mac Pro workstations. They're older machines than the current model and by default don't boot in 64-bit mode. Whilst Photoshop runs in 64-bit mode under a 32-bit kernel, you will get...
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Daily Mac App: Clean

I've just starred a new item in Google Reader Let's face it, cleaning your desktop can be a right chore. Clean makes it easy by automating the process for those who simply can't face it. Some of us are more...
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Reminder: How to tune Photoshop CS5 for peak performance

I've just starred a new item in Google ReaderA customer asked me today for Photoshop performance-tuning guidance, so I took a minute to track down the latest & greatest, most canonical guide from Adobe: it’s “How to tune Photoshop CS5...
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Wikimedia Foundation Releases Their Server Config

I've just starred a new item in Google ReaderAn anonymous reader writes "The Wikimedia Foundation has released their Puppet configuration in a public git repository. They describe this as the first step in a project called Wikimedia Test/Dev Labs, letting...
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Trialling Google Ads

I'm trialling Google Ads on the blog portion of this site. They are now appearing on the main blog page and on the individual posts pages. I'm not getting a huge number of hits, but it's pretty consistent at around...
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