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Using DisplayLink with the MacBook Pro to support up to 16 additional monitors.

Ever since I got my Macbook Pro I’ve experienced the slow wake up issue. It is by far the most annoying persistent problem with the MBP. Here’s the solution: 

Install SmartSleep. This adds a new pane to your System preferences that allows you to tweak the underlying system settings. 
Set the current sleep state to “smart sleep”, [...]

My blood ran cold as Backup’s restore didn’t work. There it was, my 10gig full backup file and Backup wouldn’t restore any of the files out of it. Five years of photos in an iPhoto library that I couldn’t get out… when I tried to restore, nothing, no files came back.
My old iMac was already [...]

I recently upgraded to a MacBookPro and I prefer to use virtual machines through VMWare Fusion rather than boot into Windows. In order to get Bluetooth and other MBP bits working in XP inside the VM I need to install the Apple hardware drivers bundled with Bootcamp.
I didn’t want to go through the Bootcamp installation [...]