Mac Hard Drive Swap
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.
Time Machine No Workie
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.
Running Low On RAM
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
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.
ClickToFlash
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.
iPhoto Rebuild
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?
Odds and Ends
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.
Tools
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?
iMac LCD
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.
Snow Leopard Archive & Install
Not 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.
