Landscape keyboard becomes unresponsive

When entering a text message and switching to landscape orientation, the keyboard locks up after every few keys. Pressing a shortcut word or backspace makes it work again for a few more keystrokes. Portrait mode works fine.

Found mine to be slow / unresponsive at time in both portrait and landscape. Did General > Reset > Reset All Settings. Works now for me ..

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Okay - it looks like I've solved my own problem after a few hours searching for related problems on the web. It's not a problem with Photoshop but with Mac OS X. The default "Universal Access" mouse and trackpad preferences were set to "Press the Option Key five times to turn Mouse Keys On or Off." So when I use a tool that I'm modifying with the option key, and I use it repeatedly five times in a row, I hear the clicking sound that means turn on "Mouse Keys" (and turn off the regular keys). Turn off that option, and the problem is solved!

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Did you ever find a resolution to this?
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Hello Redragonfly,
If you can't see the onscreen keyboard on your iPad, restart the device. If you were previously using a wireless keyboard with your iPad, turn bluetooth off to troubleshoot.
Onscreen keyboard doesn’t appear in iOS after using a wireless keyboard - Apple Support
http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203363
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Judy

Keyboard and Multi-Touch trackpad may become unresponsive on MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013)

Folks,
I have exacly same sympton described here on my 5 day old 15 inc macbook pro.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS5296
MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013): Keyboard and Multi-Touch trackpad may become unresponsive
Has anone tried to apply this patch on 15 inc ?
Kind Regards,
Neroshige

The patch is only for MBP late 2013 13 inch. 15 inch is not able to install this patch
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I ended up intalling Crucial RAM in mine.
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Please read this whole message before doing anything.
This procedure is a test, not a solution. Don’t be disappointed when you find that nothing has changed after you complete it.
Step 1
The purpose of this step is to determine whether the problem is localized to your user account.
Enable guest logins* and log in as Guest. Don't use the Safari-only “Guest User” login created by “Find My Mac.”
While logged in as Guest, you won’t have access to any of your personal files or settings. Applications will behave as if you were running them for the first time. Don’t be alarmed by this; it’s normal. If you need any passwords or other personal data in order to complete the test, memorize, print, or write them down before you begin.
Test while logged in as Guest. Same problem?
After testing, log out of the guest account and, in your own account, disable it if you wish. Any files you created in the guest account will be deleted automatically when you log out of it.
*Note: If you’ve activated “Find My Mac” or FileVault, then you can’t enable the Guest account. The “Guest User” login created by “Find My Mac” is not the same. Create a new account in which to test, and delete it, including its home folder, after testing.
Step 2
The purpose of this step is to determine whether the problem is caused by third-party system modifications that load automatically at startup or login, by a peripheral device, by a font conflict, or by corruption of the file system or of certain system caches.
Disconnect all wired peripherals except those needed for the test, and remove all aftermarket expansion cards, if applicable. Start up in safe mode and log in to the account with the problem. You must hold down the shift key twice: once when you boot, and again when you log in.
Note: If FileVault is enabled, or if a firmware password is set, or if the boot volume is a software RAID, you can’t do this. Ask for further instructions.
Safe mode is much slower to boot and run than normal, with limited graphics performance, and some things won’t work at all, including sound output and Wi-Fi on certain models. The next normal boot may also be somewhat slow.
The login screen appears even if you usually log in automatically. You must know your login password in order to log in. If you’ve forgotten the password, you will need to reset it before you begin.
Test while in safe mode. Same problem?
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Keyboard gradually becomes unresponsive

Hey. I've noticed a kind of odd problem on my MacBook (2.16 GHz, running 10.4.10, two weeks old, clean installs of software). After use for a few hours, put to sleep and woken up, the keyboard becomes progressively ignored. I usually notice it first with the command key - I'm using it mostly for web surfing, so I'm not purely entering text, more frequently shifting between apps. I lose the ability to do a Cmd-H, and in a short while can no longer enter text.
Anyone had this problem? Any suggestions?

I figured it out!
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Photoshop CS6 - Quick Selection tool freezes Photoshop/ becomes unresponsive for minutes

After only two selections the tool becomes unresponsive for minutes.
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Unfortunately, it seems to develop some kind of overload, during which you cannot use Photoshop at all. No commands like "undo selection", "quit", "close file" are accepted.
There is no beachball, no other signs that Photoshop is working on something.
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Did this work before, or has it always been this way? Not a bug or everyone with your system would be complaining. Have not seen that.
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No its not, sorry I forgot to add that. Nothing is locked I have monitor keyboard and mouse hooked up all of which work fine when booting from the old system drive, just the cloned hdd wont boot, however system prefs says its bootable and will allow me to select it as the startup disk. 250GB SATA2 HDD GUID partition map 1 partition total cloned through disk utility's Restore function.

Landscape keyboard becomes unresponsive

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