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There comes a time when you need to buy additional memory (RAM) for your Mac. It can help things to run smoothly and extend the life of your Mac for another year or two, meaning that you can probably hold off that upgrade a little long (if you have the willpower). It’s important to have […]
Activity Monitor is one of those essential applications which can help you monitor precisely what your Mac is doing. If you have any issues with system performance or wayward processes, Activity Monitor should be the first port of call to analyse what’s going on, and to check whether anything is using too much memory or […]
Keeping your photos safe is of the utmost importance. Hopefully you already keep your images backed up on at least one external hard drive to ensure that if the worst happened to your Mac you’d still have all those cherished jpgs safe and sound somewhere else. Of course keeping printed copies of your images is probably […]
Data loss is always a nightmare senario, but it’s one that will hopefully fade away as cloud computing hits the mainstream. Sometime soon we’ll all be able to sleep safely at night knowing that no matter what happens to our computers we’ll have copies of our data elsewhere ready to be restored at the press of a […]
Most of your Mac’s main settings and preferences can be accessed from System Preferences, which lets you control various things including hardware, security, internet and wireless settings, and much more besides. Most applications also have unique preferences and settings which can accessed from their own menus, but System Preferences gives you access to the majority […]
Sometimes it feels like no matter what you do some items in the Trash bin on your Mac just won’t delete, no matter how many times you try to click empty trash the system never actually gets rid of everything and you’re let with a full trash icon sitting on your desktop. When this happens […]
Every operating system needs a decent amount of free memory to function properly, and without a sufficient amount applications are prone to run more slowly and your Mac will seem more sluggish. Whilst Mac OS is a fairly robust and modern operating system built on a solid UNIX-style foundation (unlike Windows), there are nonetheless occasional […]
It can be hard to use computers successfully if you have a disability. While Apple have made it much easier with the iPad for disabled people to use it, the Mac without anything remains a struggle. However one of the less talked about features of OS X is the built in ‘Universal Access’ feature, which […]
The Dock on your Mac is one of the most used bits of Mac OS X, it’s where you keep your most used apps, where you store the folders you often look in, and it’s where apps your currently using hide when you’ve not got them fully opened. Like most aspects of OS X the […]
For the average Mac user, the Terminal is something that’s either too complicated to use or completely unknown. If you don’t know what it is, it’s the place where you can have your Mac execute custom commands, many of which you can’t do through other means. It’s a great tool, and unlike many believe, if […]
Some Lion users have reported occasional problems when trying to shutdown their Mac, such as a grey screen or permanent spinning wheel. But what should you do in this scenario to resolve any issues? It can quickly become a real nuisance – after all, doing a hard reset is not always recommended and probably isn’t […]
Most public wi-fi connections are guarded by a password, normally you have to ask someone or buy something to get access to the password, which you then enter on your Mac and promptly forget able. But what if you need to find this password again but for some reason aren’t able to ask for it? […]
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