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Fear not, the PubSub Agent

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Leopard's PubSub Agent alert, while sounding ominous, is perfectly benign.

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Fix Apple TV wireless syncing

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Does your Apple TV drop off your wireless network? Dan Frakes may have the solution for you.

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Bugs & Fixes: Can’t stop Spotlight

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Ted Landau experienced some recent trouble with Spotlight where the built-in search feature kept indexing one of his drives without ever getting closer to finishing. Here’s how he tackled the problem.

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Troubleshooting .Mac iCal syncing

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Does .Mac tell you it can't sync your iCal events due to inconsistent data? Here are a couple of options for solving the problem.

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Managing iChat alert volumes

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iChat alerts too loud for you? Here are a couple of ways to quiet them down.

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Bugs & Fixes: Two Word 2008 issues

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Bugged by slow launch times or frequent crashes with Word 2008? Ted Landau has the solution to your woes.

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Clearing specific Recent Items

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Care to remove just certain entries in the Recent Items list? Here's how.

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Getting a Mac to print on a wireless network

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Network World’s Ron Nutter fields a small business networking question on including a printer in a wireless network.

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Bugs & Fixes: Missing in action

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This installment of Bugs & Fixes takes a look at two things that might have gone missing—keystrokes after your Mac has been idle for a while, and iCal events for OS X 10.5.2 users.

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