Oct 27 2014
In the months that lead up to the Yosemite launch I decided that when the update finally arrived it would be time to upgrade my hard disk and then perform a clean install. I have had my mac since 2010 and when it shipped it had Snow Leopard installed. Since then I have upgraded in the …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.macservicesact.com.au/the-re-birth-of-my-2010-imac/
Oct 19 2014
If you are running Mavericks and with Apple supporting hardware all the way back to 2007, it’s really not a question of if can you upgrade to Yosemite but rather would you want too? About now I bet you are wondering why I would even question an Apple upgrade. Surely its faster? Surely its zippier? …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.macservicesact.com.au/yosemite-yes-or-no/
Sep 30 2014
About a week ago a security flaw was discovered the Unix operating system. This immediately began sounding alarm bells around the world because the Unix operating system is imbedded in a lot of technology these days- including your Macintosh. Despite the fact that this security issue is widespread and potentially disastrous – in realistic terms there is …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.macservicesact.com.au/shellshock-are-you-at-risk/
Sep 29 2014
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 …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.macservicesact.com.au/have-the-mac-read-your-files-to-avoid-mistakes/
Sep 29 2014
Here are two features of the MacOSX I bet you don’t use because, well, because they are not often spoken about and, unless you watch Apple keynotes at 3am in the morning, Apple has never advertised. Imagine you have a dozen or so files that you want to put into a folder. In years gone …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.macservicesact.com.au/seldom-used-features-part-6/
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