Category: MacOS

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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Change your DropBox password

It was confirmed recently that DropBox had been hacked and password stolen. As breaches go this was a very small one with only a few hundred out of millions of passwords being hacked. However, to be on the safe side, Dropbox have advised people to change their current password with, as always, a stronger password. …

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Taking screen shots

It occurred to me the other day whilst doing  – what seemed like – my thousandth article, that I use a lot of screen captures and that maybe this is a process that I should share. The Mac has always had a very clean and simple way of capturing a screen to be pasted to …

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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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