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Does anyone out there have any idea why my System Prefs icon would refuse to stay in the dock?? No matter where I move it, as soon as I close the window for S.P., it slides down to the right end by the trash, and then goes away.
It doesn't happen on my MacBook, only the iMac, and only started recently. Very odd. Thoughts?
Chris

While it is in the dock, control-click on it and see if it offers to keep it or remove it.
Joe

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Hey all,
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I've just bought some soundsticks II (Which are awesome by the way) and found that when the computer begins to play any sound there is a crackle. It sounds almost like a stylus being put onto a vinyl record (For those old enough to remember). It is particularly annoying when it plays the new mail sound as you hear the crackle before the bong.
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Thanks for your time guys.
Elmac: The sound doesn't occur through the internal speakers but it does occur through headphones, suggesting it is not the speakers at fault. I've tried reducing the speaker volume and increasing the mac volume and this does remove it but I think only because it is too quiet to hear! I've muted the mic volume but no joy.
Rob: you may be onto something with the cables as I did not notice it when I had the speakers in the middle of the room when I was playing, having unpacked them. (They were connected to my ipod). Now they are connected to the mac there are cables everywhere, and I also noticed it makes horrible loud buzzing sounds when they are powered up but not connected and if you touch the jack plug it sounds like a thunderstorm so I think the power cables are probably doing something.
My own new theory is that it is just a kind of connection noise when a signal first goes into the output channel. If I put my ipod earphones in and then switch that on it makes exactly the same noise, but this goes away when it I play something.
In any case the speakers sound so great I'm prepared to live with this little click.
All the best
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Please help with small but annoying 'Open With' finder problem

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many times I drop a photo into a book page box and it resizes it. I want to scale it smaller but it only allows me to make it bigger. Why can't I slide to make it smaller?

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A small but very irritating bug in Mail: after pressing the spacebar after typing an apostrophe in a word such as "we're", the cursor moves to the left i.e. backwards, and not to the right, effectively deleting a space and not creating one.

When composing an email in Mac Mail I've noticed a small but very irritating bug: pressing the spacebar after typing an apostrophe in a word, e.g. "we're", the cursor moves to the left i.e. backwards, and not to the right, effectively deleting a space and not creating one.
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How about a new org: "The Consortium of Small but Honest Brokers"

In this Coffee Corner thread:
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Andre (T) made this comment:
The good thing is in this insane environment is if you're part of a small organization that knows how to deliver value, you'll get business. But as for the key to big customers and their big wallet, I think at this point it's pretty well guarded by SAP account execs and consulting managers as well as US and India big Four.
Assuming this comment is accurate, how can the situation be remedied?
In particular, how can us little guys helps the "big customers" with "big wallets" stop paying exorbitant amounts for "high-margin/low-risk" deliverables? (For various definitions of "high-margin/low-risk" deliverables, see comments by Andre, Gareth, and Chris in the thread at the above link.)
Well, if a few courageous companies banded together in a consortium, we might be able to market our advice to the "big customers" as follows:
Look - we have nothing to lose because we're not getting your business anyway.
But you, on the other hand, have a lot to lose if you keep on buying bling consulting simply because you think that good consulting only comes with certain labels on it - corporate labels or buzz-word labels.
So next time you've paid between $500K and $3M for a whole lot of bling consulting, pay us (the consortium) a fraction of the price to evaluate the big guy's job and tell you what in it was and wasn't worth your money.
Hey - this may seem to you like paying twice, but what the hey - when you guys rely on bling consultants, you usually wind up paying two or more times more before the job gets done right.
Any takers out there? Any one want to be charter members of the consortium?
I bet if just a few small but quality companies would take this idea seriously, it would develop its own "cachet" (this is a fancy French word for "appeal".)
And then, who knows? The big guys might start telling a few of their departments to join the consortium, just to make sure thay they too can cash in on the "cachet".
" You may say that I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one ..." Peace out.
djh

David,
Your idea is nice one, but a I have a story on why it won't work.
I was working with independent consultant on a project. She mentioned one time she was at church explaining what she did for a living. She told minister about all the different places she worked at and consulting company manager she contracted through. The minister asked what his job was? She explained how he found her work and ensured that the company paid for her services.
The minister replied back to her so basically he is your <certain street profession held by males>. She replied back lauging and somewhat shocked yes.
This story is actually true and is probably a good assessment of the SAP consulting market on the whole. Until the business gets away from sharing a lot of similar characteristics with other street businesses, your goal below is less than possible.
Take care,
Stephen

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i have a very small but tricky problem
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