Category: Mac

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 …

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You don’t have to read it all at once

We’ve all be there. You are reading a great article on – for example – www.macservicescat.com.au and you are called away. In the past you have promised yourself to remember the address or you have emailed yourself the article and this has lead to frustration (when you realize you can’t remember the address after all) …

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The worst part of Mountain Lion (or Lion) can be changed

I love Mountain Lion – I think I have made that clear over the last little while. I will go so far as to say that if you have upgraded to Lion, and provided your Mac is eligible, then there is no reason to avoid this upgrade. If you are happy with 10.6 or 10.5 …

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Yes you can install it more than once

We’ve all be brought up to believe and expect that most applications – and certainly operating systems – can only be installed once per purchase per machine. It’s confusing, I know,  and counterintuitive but Apple really does allow you to install Mountain Lion on more than one Mac after only one purchase. Once you have …

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Fix up your Address Book before its too late

All too often people rely on the Mail application remembering who they email. They get used to just typing in the first few letters of someones name and it appearing in the TO field. This is great until there is a disaster and years of accumulated email addresses can be lost. It is a much better …

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