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Tutorial: Remedying Microsoft Office (2008 for Mac) Setup Assistant Infinite Loop Woe

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If you are a user of Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac and have installed Office 2008 SP1, you may have encountered an infinite loop woe causing you to see Microsoft Office Setup Assistant window over and over. A simple solution is to reinstall Office 2008. If you are lucky, you will never see the Setup Assistant window like the one shown in Screenshot 01. If you are not, even after installing updates, you will never get to launch Office applications.

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Screenshot 01 – Source: MacHouse		   Microsoft Office Setup Assistant 2008 update SP1 infinite loop
Screenshot 02 – Source: MacHouse		   Microsoft Office Setup Assistant 2008 update SP1 infinite loop
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Actually, Microsoft says you can stop this infinite loop woe by removing two files. One is located at

User > Library > Preferences > Microsoft > Office 2008 >

, you need to trash the file titled Microsoft Office 2008 settings.plist (See Screenshot 04.) The other file that you need to trash is located at

Applications > Microsoft Office 2008 > Office > (See Screenshot 05.)

Microsoft Office Setup Assistant 2008 update SP1 infinite loop
Screenshot 04 – Source: MacHouse		   Microsoft Office Setup Assistant 2008 update SP1 infinite loop
Screenshot 05 – Source: MacHouse		   Microsoft Office Setup Assistant 2008 update SP1 infinite loop
Screenshot 06 – Source: MacHouse

The file is titled OfficePID.plist. After deleting these two files, double-click on one of the Office applications. After entering the product key (See Screenshot 06.), you will get to use Office applications. If you have trouble locating the files, you may want to watch the following short video tutorial with no audio commentary.  Continue reading →

First Look at iMac Core 2 Duo 2.8 GHz: Amateur Comparison of iMac Core 2 Duo 24 Inch and iMac G5 17 inch

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As we reported a few days ago, we decided to let our old 17-inch iMac G5 2 GHz take an early retirement before his 3rd birthday. And a new employee arrived yesterday. It’s iMac Core 2 Duo 2.8 GHz with a 24-inch screen. So how fast is this new iMac model compared with its brothers like iMac Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz, 2.66 GHz or 3.06 GHz or Intel Mac Mac mini? Well, sorry… We are not into a technical comparison. Rather, we want to compare our new employee with an old machine in different ways.

With a second thought, let us quickly mention the technical specifications of these old and new iMac models.

  iMac G5 2 GHz iMac Core 2 Duo 2.8 GHz
CPU Type PowerPc G5 (3.1) Intel Core 2 Duo
CPU Speed 2 GHz 2.8 GHz
L2 Cache 512 KB 6 MB
Built-in memory 512 MB 2 GB
Bus speed 667 MHz 1.07 GHz
Boot ROM 5.2.5f1 IM81.00C1.B00
Internal DVD ROM MATSUSHITA DVD-R UJ-845 OPTIARCH DVD RW AD-5630A
Video card ATI Radeon 9600 ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro
VRAM 128 MB 256 MB

So iMac Core 2 Duo 2.8 GHz 24-inch model comes with a video memory of 256 MB. Hmm… That’s nice. It would be better with 512 MB, of course. In the meantime, the size of the built-in random access memory is 2 GB. That’s sufficient for simple desktop uses, right?  Continue reading →

Briefly: VideoLAN Releasing VLC Media Player 0.8.6i

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TOKYO (MacHouse) – VideoLAN has released an updated version of its open-source, cross-platform media player. According to the organization, this update will fix a security issue that makes the user vulnerable for integer overflow attack (Windows’ version only) over the Internet. It will also fix four bugs.






Click on the button for more information on this update. VTC

Briefly: Apple Releasing iTunes 7.7

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TOKYO (MacHouse) – Apple, Inc. has updated its digital music and video software to 7.7. According to the company, this update allows iTunes users to download applications at the iTunes Store for iPhone and iPod touch with firmware version 2.0 or later.






Click on the button to download iTunes 7.7. VTC
Click on the button for information on updating firmware on iPhone and iPod touch. VTC

Mac Software Review: RPG (Random Password Generator) 1.6.1

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In conjunction with the freeware title called sharedSecrets that we introduced yesterday, another problem in joining multiple websites is to generate random passwords. A few weeks ago, an advertising network company we are affiliated with started delivering porn ads to our system. They’ve eventually screwed up our account. So we’ve been looking for new ones these days. Some of them are too slow in responding. Some of them cannot be trusted. So we’ve ended up creating close to a dozen accounts. If you do it 10 to 12 times, it’s not fun manually generating random usernames and passwords, you know?

So we need help in generating random usernames and passwords as much as we need to comprehensively manage them. A couple of days ago, we ran into a freeware title called Password Builder. It looks nice. It even supports Greek characters to generate strong passwords. But… It will run only under Leopard. Hmm… So what are other choices do OS X 10.4 users have?

And we found another Mac freeware title called RPG (Random Password Generator) by David Kreindler. That’s what this software review is all about. So let’s see how RPG works.  Continue reading →