Zero Mu Tech Articles

Macintosh iWork ‘08 Numbers is a Real Pain

Posted in Apple/Mac, Frustrations, Opinion | 16 Comments »

Usually I post articles that describe how to get around a problem that I had, but this is just about how frustrated I am with Apple’s Numbers, part of the iWork ‘08 suite.

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Moving Your Mac Leopard Time Machine to a New Drive

Posted in Apple/Mac, WordPress | 22 Comments »

I recently upgraded to a 1 Terabyte external hard drive and wanted to move my Time Machine backups to that drive (and start using this new drive for Time Machine). This is how I did it.

Quick Solution: Use Disk Utility to Restore your old drive to your new drive, then tell Time Machine that you want to use a different disk

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Fix the GlowWorm Blue Screen of Death/No Boot/No User Login Window

Posted in Apple/Mac, Fixes/Hacks | 20 Comments »

This goes over my experience with GlowWorm.app causing a boot error in Mac OS 10.5.1 Leopard, and what I did that fixed it.

Symptoms

• You just installed GlowWorm.app
• Your computer will not boot (or not reach the login window, but the mouse appears) in normal mode
  • You can boot into safe mode
  • You can boot into single user mode

The quick answer: boot into “safe mode” and run the GlowWorm unistaller.app and disable firewall; reboot.
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