Category: Mac

What is Preview and how do I get the full version?

I will admit, Apple’s built in PDF and picture viewing application is badly named and most people think its a demo version of something. The word Preview, seems to suggest that you use this to look at something but if you actually want to DO anything with that document you need to find another application. …

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Friends don’t let friends use XP

Reading the title of this article you’ll be expecting me to start banging on about Windows and how bad it is, how the Mac is so much better and how you ought to be encouraging your friends to make the switch now. Not this time. Well….. not much anyway. Really this is about Windows XP had how …

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New operating system coming in Spring – Yosemite.

Come Spring Apple will be unleashing their latest operating system, Yosemite–and with it will come the usual questions and hand wringing. What’s going change? How will it affect my Mac and will I have to learn how to use it all over again? Is my Mac ready? The good news is, at least at this stage, there is very little …

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Protect your iCloud account with two-step verification

UPDATE: It has been confirmed that the Russian hackers responsible for this attack have been arrested. It has also been confirmed that iCloud had not been hacked but rather the people affected were victims of Phishing or other such scams and had given their details away. There has been a fair amount of chatter in the press …

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A RAM upgrade is the best thing you can do

Overtime a computer seems to slow down, and sometimes this can happen not because it has a fault of any kind, but rather because your demands on the Mac have increased. An upgrade of the OS, a new application or a new hobby that sees you using iPhoto more and more will all slow the Mac down. So …

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