Tag: macos

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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Places to remove files from your hard disk

If you put a hundred Mac technicians into a room and asked them if you should defragment your hard disk some of them would say ‘no’ some would say ‘absolutely’  and the rest would shuffle about nervously biting their lips and looking skyward. The truth is the answer is a divided one. There is no …

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Urgent Java Update

Its OK, you don’t really need to know what Java is but its probably running on your Mac and it has a dangerous hole in it. Once upon a time Apple released their own Java updates but they were slow to react to exploits and this lead to  600,000 Macs being infected with the FlashBack …

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