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It’s possible to use your Mac much more quickly and effectively, simply by ditching the mouse and learning some of the most common keyboard shortcuts and trackpad gestures. Most MacBook users will already be familiar with many of the trackpad gestures, but there are some additional shortcuts and techniques that can help to streamline your […]
The Mac has a reputation for reliability and ease of use, but crashes and freezes do in fact happen from time to time either due to performance-related issues or software bugs. It can be a nasty surprise when your Mac temporarily freezes, or worse still crashes completely (thankfully that’s a very rare occurrence), and you […]
There are hundreds of ways to speed up the Mac using options and preferences in common applications and of course in System Preferences. But there are also several ways to make your computer run more quickly just using Terminal commands alone. The following tips can help you squeeze every last drop of performance out of […]
When you’re searching for email in the Mac’s Mail application and can’t find it, there could be several possible causes. Mail includes a very convenient built-in search facility to find messages based on the headers, recipients and content, but occasionally you might find that it’s not coming up with the results you expect. Once you’ve […]
Are you battling with duplicate appointments and events showing up in iCal? As you’re well aware, it can be quite maddening. If you’ve got 5 or 6 devices, it can be especially frustrating as you could be seeing that many duplicates showing up in iCal. Luckily, there is an easy fix for this and it […]
Your Mac’s hard disk must be working properly to ensure your computer’s overall system health is maintained. In general, Mac disks are extremely reliable and you’re not likely to encounter any physical problems with the drive unless it’s suffered an accident such as being dropped. In that case, the sudden motion sensor on the Mac […]
To keep multiple folders and thousands of files synchronised can be a real headache without a convenient method to automate the task. Consider this scenario: you have several folders on your Mac that must be kept fully synchronised with an external USB memory stick, hard drive, or simply with another computer or mobile phone. Copying […]
So your Mac has started running slow? Perhaps the easiest and most common way to get your Mac back up to speed is to use a third party clean up App. There are dozens of Apps the claim to make your Mac run faster, to help you choose here is a selection of the best […]
Mac OS X Lion has many superb features and the majority of users enjoy it immensely. However, some people who have installed Lion may wish to revert back to Snow Leopard simply because they prefer its look and feel, or because they have issues with Lion that cannot be resolved. For example, some older applications […]
Duplicate files such as documents and photos can occupy a surprising amount of space on your Mac’s hard disk and you might not even realise they are there. Perhaps you’ve copied files into several folders and external USB drives, and additional copies could exist in the Mail downloads folder. You might even find a few […]
New to Mac OS X Lion is “Versions”, it is an automatic backup utility much like Time Machine that saves several copies of files as you’re working on them. Apple introduced this utility so that users could always revert back to previous versions of a file if they chose. A few people have wondered if […]
Anyone that deals with lots of files will invariably need to rename them to something more useful from time to time. When you have hundreds of files that need to be renamed however, doing it manually in Finder is just way too labour-intensive – surely there’s a simpler method? Renaming single files on the Mac […]
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