Category: Mac

The new Fusion drive might be why you buy a new Mac

Apple recently released a whole slew of new Macs in the form of a new- impossibly thin – iMac and the new Mac Mini. While the new iMac is eye popping in its design it wouldn’t be enough for me to recommend buying one unless your current model is wheezing and about to drop. For …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://www.macservicesact.com.au/the-new-fusion-drive-might-be-why-you-buy-a-new-mac/

Apple Recalls iMac disks

My hatred for Seagate hard disks goes back many years. Way back in the mid 90’s, when I worked for the reseller Logical Solutions, we received an order for 25 Macintosh IIsi. But the hard disks from Apple weren’t considered big enough so it was decided to fit them with 25 Seagate drives instead. Within a …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://www.macservicesact.com.au/apple-recalls-imac-disks/

Searching in Apple Mail

Mail is probably the only application you use everyday and as a result you likely have a ton of messages in your inbox. I know I do so when I needed to find that particular email from my wife telling me – specifically – what she wanted for her birthday I had to find it in …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://www.macservicesact.com.au/searching-in-apple-mail/

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 …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://www.macservicesact.com.au/urgent-java-update/

Removing Specific items from your Time Machine Backup

Time Machine backs up everything and as your disks starts to fill up it dutifully goes back to the beginning of time and starts deleting older files and backups to make more room. But imagine something like this and maybe it will relate to you…. Lets say you have a folder on your desktop that …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://www.macservicesact.com.au/removing-specific-items-from-your-time-machine-backup/