Hidden Dock - Improve speed

Hey guys, when the dock is hidden, is there anyway to increase the speed of how quickly it shows it self again when you mouse over it? For e.g currently i need to hover my mouse down for about 1.5 seconds before it shows up i would really like it to be instant and then change it whenever i need to.
Thanks guys, i really hope theres as tweak out there for this!!

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Hello jaquade,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
For more information on this, take a look at:
iMovie: Tips to improve performance
http://support.apple.com/kb/TA27648?viewlocale=en_US
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Boot into Safe Mode then repair your hard drive and permissions:
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iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.3 - SDK 10.9
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Gents,
I'm having an Java app which is logging "messages" into another another window(emulating the console with some clever functionality). In this window I'm using a JTextArea for displaying messages, and it seems that repainting this JTextArea is a bottleneck for performance... Do some of you have experience about the topic and some ideas of how to improve speed ?
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Gayathri wrote:
I want to convert analog signals to digital signals and simultaneously perform some search on the data acquired and this whole process has to be done continuously for few hours.
So I tried writing two programs in Matlab, one acquires the analog data and converts it to digital and saves the data in small chunks on hard disk (like file1, file2, file3,...) continuously. The other program performs the search operation in those chunks of data continuously. I run both the programs at a time by opening two mat lab windows.
But the problem Iam facing is that the data acquisition is slow. As a result I get an error message in the second program saying that
"??? Error using ==> load
Unable to read file file4.mat: No such file or directory."
Iam unable to synchronize the two programs. I cannot use timers in search program because I cannot add any delays.
Iam using a NI PCI-6036E ,16 Bit Resolution ,200 KS/s Sampling Rate A/D board.
Should I switch to some other series such as M series having sampling rate of the order MS/s?
Can anyone please tell me how to improve the speed of data acquisition?
Thanks.
Hi gayathri,
well my email is [email protected]
if ur from india mail me back.
Regards
labview boy

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