Generally an old iMac isn’t worth repairing. If your hard disk goes that is OK because hard disks and SSD’s are freely available from third party dealers but other big ticket items like video cards, power supplies and mainboards all come from Mr Apple. The issue there, even if you decide that $300 wasn’t …
Category: Hardware
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Jan 10 2015
Your backups are safe
Behind Time Machine’s very simple interface lies a very clever little bit of software. However one of its features causes a great deal of confusion. Every now and then a dialog box pops up telling you that it is deleting your old backups. Understandably this produces waves of panic and streams of cold sweat among …
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Sep 29 2014
Have the Mac read your files to avoid mistakes
Eye don’t know about you but I suffer from word blindness. In case you don’t know what that is, it is a condition where you write something down and no matter how many times you look at it, read it (even out loud) it looks OK to you. This is because you KNOW what you MEANT to …
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Mar 11 2014
Don’t reset your modem
If the Internet was reliable and some large ISPs took more responsibility for the service they provide I would be out of a job. The number one issue I deal with is email and web browsing and 90% of the time it’s the ISP that needs to fix something at their end. Unfortunately when clients …
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May 04 2012
Re-charging your ink
There are people out there who have smoked 40 cigarettes a day and died at the age of 99 because the plane they were flying in crashed into a house. And yet its still true to say that smoking is bad for you. There are people out there that drink like a fish (yes, please …
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