Category: MacOS

Mojave anyone?

It has been a long time since I was both this excited, and scared of an update in equal measure. For starters, Mojave promises some very cool – and useful – features but it also heralds the age of 64bit MacOS and this means only one thing… a lot of older software is now history. …

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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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Make your Mac faster

  With all the good intentions of an aunt forcing Tupperware down your throat, Apple made FileVault an automatic standard when upgrading your Mac to Sierra back in 2016.  So there is a good chance its running on your Mac right now. Now in theory this is a great thing… after all, anyone with even …

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The contents of my Mac

The events of the last couple of months has been something of a revelation for me. First came a book called The Barefoot Investor by Scott Pape who has taught me, my family and friends how to set ourselves up for retirement and manage our money better. And while I am not here to spruik …

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