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AppleJack startup utility now works with Snow Leopard

by Michael Rose (Jul 21st, 2010)

In the hustle and the bustle of last week's full-court press press, there was a bit of Mac news worthy of mention: the indispensable AppleJack single-user utility has been updated for compatibility with Snow Leopard. If you never need AppleJack, you'll be happier, but if and when you do need it ...

Ask TUAW: Key remapping in Boot Camp, iPad tethering, file-sharing with a media extender, and more

by Mat Lu (Feb 19th, 2010)

Welcome back to Ask TUAW, our weekly troubleshooting Q&A column. This week we deal with some technical issues on our production Mac before turning to questions about Windows key remapping in Boot Camp, sharing files with a LaCie media extender, downloading images in Safari, recovering from a ...

"Utility of last resort" AppleJack updated for Leopard compatibility

by Michael Rose (Sep 2nd, 2008)

You may sincerely wish never to need it, but if you run into a situation where your Mac refuses to boot fully to the Finder and you don't have any boot-capable utilities to tackle the problem, Kristofer Widholm's AppleJack is probably your best friend in the trenches. The single-user-mode tool is ...

AppleJack 1.4.3rc3 adds Intel support

by Laurie A. Duncan (Nov 7th, 2006)

AppleJack, the wildly popular open source, single user mode troubleshooting tool for Macs, has finally been updated to support Intel-based Macs. Version 1.4.3rc3, a release candidate, is downloadable now on sourceforge and the final version is expected within the week. Besides Intel compatibility, ...

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