Nov 17 2013
If you are looking for a cheap (see what I did there?) Mac for the kids or some light surfing you’d be hard pressed to find something better than one of these 2006 (or in a few cases 2009) Macbooks. They have a fresh install of 10.6.8 and iLife. Most come with 2GB of ram …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.macservicesact.com.au/a-macbook-for-150-00/
Nov 13 2013
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 …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.macservicesact.com.au/how-long-will-your-drive-last/
Nov 09 2013
On the 23rd of October Apple did one of the stupidest things they have ever done. They killed the iWork suite of applications just when it was starting to gain traction again the default Office suite. They upgraded them to a point that rendered the suite useless. (Actually this isn’t the first time they have …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.macservicesact.com.au/new-iwork-is-a-joke-but-there-is-hope/
Nov 07 2013
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 …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.macservicesact.com.au/use-spotlight-for-more-than-search/
Oct 27 2013
The latest mobile phone satisfaction survey was released recently and, for the 9th survey in a row Apple came out on top. And why wouldn’t they? For starters the iOS is easily the most integrated OS not just within itself but with a whole host of other services such as Airplay, Apple TV, iCloud and …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.macservicesact.com.au/iphone-on-top-for-satisfaction/
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