If you put a hundred Mac technicians into a room and asked them if you should defragment your hard disk some of them would say ‘no’ some would say ‘absolutely’ and the rest would shuffle about nervously biting their lips and looking skyward. The truth is the answer is a divided one. There is no …
Category: MacOS
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Dec 07 2013
The balance between speed and security
It is sad to think that there would be no need for Anti Virus, Anti Spam or Anti Malware services if the world wasn’t overflowing with the kind of filth that writes malicious applications. A world free of these creeps is, I fear, a Disney fantasy. In response to this threat most of us install …
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Nov 13 2013
How long will your drive last?
The offsite backup company Backblaze (who I fully endorse by the way) recently revealed some very interesting statistics about their hard disks. You see luckily for us Backblaze use over 25,000 domestic quality drives to backup all our data and this gives them a unique insight into the life and performance of drives that you …
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Nov 07 2013
Use Spotlight for more than search
Near the top of my list entitled “if I had a dollar for everytime I…” is Spotlight – the little hourglass icon that started off as a blue dot in the top right hand screen in Tiger then was later promoted to a sleek grey icon in Lion and beyond. No one seems to know …
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Oct 26 2013
Mavericks- please wait
On the 23rd of October Apple stunned the world with the announcement that Mavericks (their latest OS) was to be free. This fuelled a rush to download and install and I bet you are thinking seriously about doing same but I would advise you wait and approach the upgrade with caution. So why am I …
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