Mac Lab: A Macintosh OS X Blog

We have found so many forums with owners of MacBook Pros ( MBP ) suffering from the following issue:
1. The MacBook Pro goes to sleep either by closing the lid or just by virtue of time.
2. Upon trying to wake the MacBook Pro, you get a black screen with or without the spinning beach ball [...]

We were getting this iTunes 8 error:
An error occured while connecting to the remote speaker “XYZ”. An unknown error occured (-3256).
We use a 3G iPhone running the app “Remote” to connect to iTunes and control the music. But we couldn’t connect to our Airport Express speakers over the wireless network.
The solution? Open System Preferences: Network: [...]

Perhaps I should categorize this post under “Things that make you go hmmmm”.
My wife has always been a PC person. She is an Assistant Principal, and is close to a power user with Outlook, Internet Explorer, Excel, Word, all the usual suspects. She has always preferred the PC and has used my Macs with some [...]

Time to do it: backup your Wodpress database, deactivate all of your plugins, ftp the new WP files (make sure to keep your themes, plugins, and config file), update the database, and you are done. Wordpress 2.7 is awesome. It has a slick new admin interface, it is easier to find settings and features, and [...]

What is a portable program ? : A portable program is a piece of software that you can carry around with you on a portable device and use on any other computer. It can be your email program, your browser, system recovery tools or even an operating system. The coolest part about it is that [...]