Mac Hard Drive Swap

March 7, 2010 · Filed Under Hardware · Comment 

Having two Mac Techs at work is pretty handy sometimes. The other day we had one of our customers whose MacBook Pro keyboard was dying. He was going on a trip that day and needed his laptop.

Read more

Time Machine No Workie

March 7, 2010 · Filed Under Operating System · Comment 

I have been trying to setup Time Machine to an internal hard drive on my Mac Pro at work. For some reason it keeps erring out about half way through the process. The error message doesn’t really tell you anything, it just says there is an error.

Read more

Running Low On RAM

March 4, 2010 · Filed Under Operating System · Comment 

This is a very helpful article if you are using a 15″ or 17″ unibody MacBook Pro and seem to be running out of memory from time to time. Just the information about Activity Monitor is worth the read.

Doug

ARD

March 2, 2010 · Filed Under Software · Comment 

indextop20060321

Have you ever used Apple Remote Desktop (ARD)? Yes, I know it can use some improvements, but it still is a very cool application. We do a lot of things with it at my work, much like this.

Read more

ClickToFlash

February 28, 2010 · Filed Under Software · Comment 

I just signed up for a faster Internet connection from my service provider. I really like the download speeds, much improved. But, I still have a gripe with all the stuff that is encoded into people’s web pages.

Read more

iPhoto Rebuild

February 25, 2010 · Filed Under Software · Comment 

I know I have said this before, but every once in a while it is a good idea to rebuild the iPhoto library file. Especially if you have a ton of photos. Things can get a little corrupted and so forth. So how do you rebuild the iPhoto library?

Read more

Odds and Ends

February 23, 2010 · Filed Under Tech Update · Comment 

Just a few observations after being back at my former employer for a month or so. It is a corporate environment so we use the Exchange Server. The Mac people use Office 2008 which means Entourage for email.

Read more

Tools

February 22, 2010 · Filed Under Hardware · Comment 

One of the things I learned about at my retail Mac job is what kind of tools you need to repair Macs and what qualifies for quality tools. I am very grateful for that knowledge. So, why do I bring this up?

Read more

iMac LCD

February 22, 2010 · Filed Under Hardware · Comment 

The company where I work has several older aluminum iMacs, about 2007 vintage. A few things are starting to go out on them. Today we replaced the LCD on one, and it went great.

Read more

Snow Leopard Archive & Install

February 16, 2010 · Filed Under Operating System · Comment 

Screenshot 1Not really. I have done several re-installs of Snow Leopard since it’s release. The one thing I miss from previous versions of the Mac OS is the Archive and Install feature.

Read more

Next Page »

iChat Status