The kids are finally in bed, your better half is snoozing and the cat is sprawled out on the sofa. Before you turn in . . . don’t forget. Turn off the computer. This is important. A Mac left on . . . it’s like having a badly built high explosive IED in...
The Apple Store carry some pre-built models of the iMac, Macbook, Macbook Pro and Macbook Air. Nothing surprising here… They can’t have all available configurations. As a buyer, the problem is that this limits your choices. When you’re...
The Mac can be connected to hard drives, printers, scanners, cameras, projectors, routers, and a host of other peripherals. Over the next few weeks we’ll be taking a look at the ports that make this possible. Hopefully, this will make it a little easier to shop...
We’ve already covered how to recover when a single application freezes, but what do you do when your entire computer freezes? The solution is a Force Shutdown. How Do I Know My Mac Is Frozen: You get the spinning beach ball-of-death, it won’t go away, and...
Last week, I sold my 24″ iMac. It was 5 years old. A good machine, but starting to suffer from the silicon equivalent of dementia. A nice man came to my house and handed me $530.00 for it. He was going to ship it to a country where whole families lived in a...
In the past, when your Mac started to slow down, the only hardware upgrade worth trying was the installation of more RAM. Thanks to advances in drive technology… that’s no longer the case. Most Macs store and access data from a hard drive. Hard drives are...
