Category: Hardware

Time is up!

On the 24th of September Apple released 10.14 to the masses and in doing so doomed your Mac running El Capitan to the pages of history. If you see m@cservices regularly for a health check, or we’ve seen you for any other reason in the last little while, our mantra would likely have been “there …

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It’s probably not your mouse

Just before we begin I’d like to make the point that while this article talks about a mouse, a lot of the issues and fixes also apply to track pads. There comes a time in every Mac users life when they think their mouse sucks. In 1996 it was, justifiably, because it was round and …

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NBN and Airport router

With NBN creeping its way into more and more homes and yet more moving to VDSL, it is inevitable that your Airport/modem setup is going to get broken along the way. While I won’t go into the specific behaviour of your average internet tech, it does seem like they are given a crash course in …

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That little orange light

If you have an Airport (Express or Time Capsule) chances are you’ve seen a little orange light flashing at you from time to time. Chances are you have rebooted the Airport and it has gone away for a few minutes, only to return. This little orange light is designed to tell you that the Airport …

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POS for the rest of us

Ok, picture this. You have a small business, or you sell cakes at the bus depot markets or do anything that requires the taking of money. In the past you have been limited to cash or spending bigly (thank you Mr Trump) on renting a credit card machine from the bank. If you are running …

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