Dec 15 2015
Notifications is a feature that is often ignored or hated but hardly ever embraced and this is a shame because if used correctly it can be a real time saver. This feature was a stable on the iPhone as far back as iOS5 but didn’t make it to the Mac OS until 10.8 but hasn’t really filled out …
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Jul 07 2015
In ancient times, well ok the 1990’s, if an application failed it meant the whole Mac failed. You really did have the thrown the baby out with the bath water. But for a long time now you won’t lose the data in your unsaved* Excel spreadsheet if Word fails for some reason. If an application …
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Jun 01 2015
So you’d rather clean the shower with a toothbrush than reboot your mac because everytime you do half a dozen applications fire up making it a more tedious experience than watching an episode of Big Brother. There can be a couple of reasons for this and they are all easy to fix. A few years …
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Apr 26 2015
A folder is like a draw. They are simple and self explanatory… you put stuff in them and thats where they stay and that’s all there is to it. But the Mac OS lets you create “smart” folders that turn the concept of the humble folder into something very different and a whole lot more useful. You’ll …
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Jan 10 2015
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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