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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 […]
It’s easy to get videos playing on your Apple devices if they were purchased through iTunes, but a lot of people have struggled with, or wondered how, to get non-purchased content onto their Apple devices. Due to copyright and contract issues, Apple is unable to put a decent file-conversation option in iTunes. Despite this, it […]
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 […]
Anyone that uses their MacBook whilst on the move will appreciate that it’s often necessary to conserve the battery, to provide a few more hours of essential juice when there are no power outlets nearby. There are many simple things you can do to maximise your battery; many of these items don’t individually save a […]
Does you Mac still boot up as quickly as the day you bought it? Over time, most computers have a tendency to start more slowly as they become clogged up with applications that install various startup processes and more disk space is used up, which over time leads to a deterioration in system performance. If […]
More and more people are realising the benefits of moving from a PC to a Mac. But how do you move your files, applications and other settings? Thankfully, you can quite easily move your existing files to a new Mac and continue to use them – as long as you have compatible applications installed. Unfortunately, not […]
Every once and a while you may have noticed that iTunes does not have the proper album artwork for the music you have imported. In some cases, it may not have the album artwork at all. It can be annoying (especially if you’re someone like me who is particularly anal about keeping their iTunes library […]
So you’ve mastered the fine art of keyboard shortcuts in Mac OS X, but you want to make your own, or alter existing ones; how do you do it? Or maybe you’re used to a certain keyboard shortcut that isn’t available anymore, or has switched to something else, and you want to change it back. […]
Improving your computer’s security is always a good idea, and Apple gives you several options of doing so. The one we will discuss today is how to set your Firmware password. Setting a Firmware password will prevent your computer from being booted to different volumes without requiring this password.
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