Category: MacOS

The best way to run Windows on your Mac.

While I would rather shave my head and paint it purple than run Windows as my main interface, I do accept that there is a need to run it every now and then. Many of us (me included) have a Windows application or two that we need to run. I always look for alternative but …

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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 …

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Where has my google search gone?

When Mountain Lion pounced earlier this year few released, until it was too late, that their Google search box had disappeared from Safari. Not long after that Apple released an update to Safari for 10.7.4 and suddenly it disappeared for Lion users as well. Well the good news is this is not an error but …

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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 …

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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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