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I go by Cait. I'm 18. Blogger. College Kid. YouTuber. Mac-head. Photo/Videographer. New Yorker @ Heart.
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26 Nov 09
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Spend it with someone you wanna hug this tightly! Let the holiday season begin and enjoy classic American culture with the Macy’s Thankgiving Day Parade on NBC!
20 Nov 09
"A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection."
Chuck Palahniuk; Courtesy of Ainsley’s Facebook
18 Nov 09
15 Nov 09
ABC to take on a remake of "Charlie's Angels"
ABC is really on a roll with remakes. Hopefully they get a strong enough cast to pull this one off. It could be pretty cool.
12 Nov 09
23 Geeky QWERTY Inspired Designs
This is quite epic. I’d gladly display some of these in my home.
10 Nov 09
"All of life is a journey; which paths we take, what we look back on, and what we look forward to is up to us. We determine our destination, what kind of road we will take to get there, and how happy we are when we get there."
Annonymous
Happy 40th Birthday Sesame Street
“May your song always be sung and may you stay forever young.”
9 Nov 09
"Being close to someone doesn’t mean you truly know what’s going on in their mind."
8 Nov 09
Did your screen go black while installing Snow Leopard?
This is a post from my old Wordpress blog. Not many websites have a post like this, so I wanted to repost it here to help people that may experience this problem in the future:
I inserted the Snow Leopard CD, as usual, and followed the instructions given on screen to upgrade my 10.5 Leopard system to 10.6 Snow Leopard. Installation began and I was given the estimation of about 45 minutes until completion. I let my MacBook Pro do its thing as I went into the other room to organize some things. When I returned 15 minutes later, the screen was black yet I could still hear the Snow Leopard CD spinning inside my laptop’s optical drive. Having put my full faith in Snow Leopard and choosing not to back up my hard drive before the upgrade, I began to panic, wondering if something had gone wrong and my data was in jeopardy.
Thanks to the wonderful technology that is my iPod Touch, I quickly did a search on Google regarding the situation, using the keywords “snow leopard installation black screen”. I came up with multiple hits on Mac related forums of many other Intel Mac laptop users having the same issue. A reason was not depicted, but a solution was described.
Though it was not visible to me, there was still information on the screen. The forum thread that I read at MacRumors suggested I hold a flashlight close to my blackened MacBook Pro LCD and see if I could spot the cursor or some writing. I decided to give it a shot. And as stupid as I felt holding a flashlight within inches of my MacBook Pro’s screen, I did see that the installation was continuing to take place behind the black screen. Again, I have yet to find a reason online or personally, but after being able to see the installation continuing, I decided to just let it continue to work as needed until the installation was complete. About a half an hour later, the installation was complete and my MacBook Pro automatically restarted and led me straight to my usual desktop. No files were lost, as I had feared they might be, and all was right with the world.
Though I cannot give a reason as to why the screen of many Mac laptops go black during a Snow Leopard installation, I can offer a solution and proof that it works. Should this happen to you, use your nearest flash light to see that the installation is continuing behind the darkened screen. Do not turn off your computer and more importantly, do not panic. Your computer will be safe and sound in no time.
7 Nov 09
