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Pixelmator announces big bug with OS X 10.8.2

by Steven Sande (Dec 7th, 2012)

Ouch. You know it's a bad day for Pixelmator Team when they have to publicly announce a major bug in their marquee app. The bug causes some Macs to "restart when intensively using Pixelmator" -- like right when you're in the middle of a major project. The issue also causes other nice side ...

TUAW's Daily Mac App: Shuttie

by Samuel Gibbs (May 11th, 2011)

Ever wanted to leave your Mac running unattended at night, but don't want it running all night long? Today's Daily Mac App will help you do just that. Shuttie allows you to bind one of six actions to a countdown timer, allowing you to shutdown, restart, sleep or logout of your Mac, or fire ...

iPhone Troubleshooting: How to Restart, quit frozen apps and Reset iPhone

by David Chartier (Jul 18th, 2007)

I'm starting to think there is some sort of bad luck attached to my iTunes Store account, as tonight I experienced the third iTunes Store song that completely locked up an iPod - only this time it was my iPhone. While listening to 'Again with the Subtleties' from the Yppah album You Are Beautiful At ...

Apple Support doc on Intel Macs and 3rd party routers: "just restart it"

by David Chartier (Nov 30th, 2006)

Well this doesn't sound like any fun: enough Intel Macs running 10.4.8 must be having a problem connecting wirelessly to some 3rd party routers that Apple had to publish a support doc on the topic. As icing on the cake, Apple's solution isn't a pretty one either. If your Intel Mac is having this ...

TUAW Tip: shortcuts for Sleep, Restart and Shut Down

by David Chartier (Jul 14th, 2006)

We here at TUAW are suckers for productive shortcuts, and since yesterday's System Preferences tip was such a hit, I thought I'd post a few shortcuts to speed up the Sleep, Restart and Shut Down commands. There's actually quite a few ways to accomplish these tasks, so I'll try to mention all the ...

Automate shutdown and restart processes

by David Chartier (Jan 2nd, 2006)

Yet more apps that have made my "why doesn't OS X do this natively?" list are Mac Shutdown X and Mac Restart X. The concept of Mac Shutdown X is simple: shut down a Mac automatically based on various kinds of events, such as a download finishing or a file disappearing. While the list of ...