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Category: MacOS

Mountain Lion. Will it work for you?

First things first, Mountain Lion is a triumph. I wouldn’t go so far as to say its revolutionary or ground breaking but it is the first operating system since Snow Leopard that works really well. My Mac is faster, cleaner and more feature rich than ever before and I highly endorse upgrading to it as soon as possible. That is, if …

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Mountain Lion Security

When you installed Mountain Lion later this month you might find that you cannot install software. Don’t worry this isn’t a bug but rather a feature. Mountain Lion is designed to stop any installer in its tracks that either a) didn’t come directly from the Mac Appstore or b) has registered itself with Apple. However …

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The only use for LaunchPad

You are going to think me the worst kind of hypocrite. You are going to want me hung from the nearest yard arm and spanked until my bottom is blue. You may even think I have gone mad but I think I have found a use for that ugly stepchild of all interface designs- LaunchPad. …

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Remove duplicates from iPhoto

When IPhoto was released it was called the “digital shoebox” in which to put all your photos. It has moved on since then to allow you to sort and share in all manner of ways it is essentially remains the dumping ground of all your photos – just like that shoebox you used to use …

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Stop Lion from opening windows

Do you remember the good old days when a computer would cheerfully close all windows when you shut down your computer? These days it is a ‘feature’ that Lion reopens all your windows and relaunches all your applications upon reboot. This is often the very thing you don’t want at reboot time, so its not …

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