A new way to deal with scams

I know it’s hard to believe, but  there are scum buckets out there whose single purpose in life is to rip you off. They get up in the morning and eat breakfast dreaming up new ways to make your life a misery. A while back I detailed some rules to follow that were designed to deal …

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Force quitting an application

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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Why do these applications keep popping up?

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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Smart Folders

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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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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