In case you missed it...

Here are previously-published news items from your friends at The X Lab™.

• "Troubleshooting with Activity Monitor": a comprehensive article about using Activity Monitor to troubleshoot performance problems.
• "The Spinning Beach Ball of Death": a major update to our article on the spinning wait cursor.
• "Hard drive sleep": a new article discussing this energy-saving feature. This content was originally part of our SBBOD article; it has been revised, updated, and published as a standalone X-FAQ.

After months of work, Troubleshooting Mac OS X, Leopard Edition is now available.

Covering Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard exclusively, the latest edition of Dr. Smoke's comprehensive troubleshooting e-book is packed with new and updated information, including new chapters, new appendices, and plenty of high-resolution screen shots.

The price remains a superb value at US$19.95 for a single-user license, with download following the approval of your secure payment via credit-card or PayPal®.

You can also purchase Troubleshooting Mac OS X, Leopard Edition for delivery on CD or in a specially-priced combination of download and CD. Multi-user licenses are also available.

Click here to buy now or use the following links to learn more:

• What's new in the Leopard Edition?
• Detailed chapter listing with descriptions.
• Table of Contents and Index. (PDF)
• Introduction from the "About This Book" chapter. (PDF)

To help you uninstall the Front Row hack, we have published our latest X-FAQ, "Uninstalling the Front Row hack."

Covering Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger exclusively, the latest edition of Dr. Smoke's comprehensive troubleshooting e-book is packed with new and updated information, including a dozen new chapters, five new appendices, and dozens of high-resolution screen shots.

At over 600 pages, the price is a superb value at US$19.95 for a single-user license, with download following the approval of your secure credit-card payment.

You can also purchase Troubleshooting Mac OS X, Tiger Edition by secure credit-card payment for delivery on CD, or in a specially-priced combination of download and CD. Multi-user licenses are also available.

With the Holiday Season upon us, this is great time to buy extra copies on CD for your family and friends who are also using Mac OS X!

Click here to buy now or use the following links to learn more:

• What's new in the Tiger Edition.
• Table of Contents and Index. (PDF)
• Detailed listing of chapters with descriptions.
• The Introduction from the "About This Book" chapter. (PDF)

Over the coming weeks, The X Lab will be updating our current FAQs for Tiger as well as adding new Tiger-specific FAQs.

• The Apple Hardware Test.
• Data recovery.
• Multiple applications quit unexpectedly or fail to launch.
• Uninstalling applications.

We also want to wish our customers, and the many visitors to The X Lab, a safe, happy, healthy, and prosperous 2005. Happy New Year!

• A new cause for Help Viewer displaying Jaguar Help instead of Panther Help under Mac OS X 10.3 Panther.
• A bug in Help Viewer that is the result of the Security Update 2004-05-24: Help for an application is not displayed if Help Viewer is already displaying Help for another application.

• Malware: Applications that might do harm to your system.
• Spyware: Applications that capture and disclose your personal information without your knowledge or approval.

We've added a new FAQ to the X-FAQs: Troubleshooting a failed indexing operation. This FAQ is from the book and addresses how to identify and resolve a situation where indexing fails when creating an index for use with Find by Content.