Getting MenuMeters To Work On El Capitan
If you’re a long time user of Raging Menace’s MenuMeters, one of the most noticeable gripes upon your first restart after upgrading to OS 10.11, El Capitan is the fact that your MenuMeters have gone…
Mac OS X
15″ Macbook Pro 2010 (6,2) GPU Video Issues Solution
Without warning, as of a month ago, our sturdy 15″ Macbook Pro 2010 (6,2) has been plagued by random restarts without any particular pattern or logic to it. Making it immensely, nay – almost impossible…
Updating Aperture 3.4.5 to 3.6 To Be Yosemite Compatible
Its a chicken and egg scenario with Yosemite and Aperture. You just hit the “update” button and finally gave in to installing Mac OS X 10.10, Yosemite on your Mac. Its only upon completion you…
Apple Releases OS X 10.10.4 With TRIM Support!
30 June 2015 – Apple releases latest update to OS X Yosemite, with OS X 10.10.4. Other than providing major fixes for nagging issues since the initial launch of Yosemite (multiple networking issues as a…
Mac OS X Dictionary Widget Stopped Working!
Some users have reported that the default Apple Dictionary widget stops working after updating their Macs to either Lion (10.7 onwards) or even Mountain Lion (10.8 onwards). What do we mean by “stopped working”? You…
“Windows cannot be installed on to this disk. The selected disk is of the GPT partition style”
Boot Camp 5.1 now support Windows 8 and Windows 8.1. Unfortunately installation some times is not as straight forward as it should be. This article is dedicated to dealing with the nasty frustrating GPT error encountered…
Install Java On Mac OS X
Since late 2012 (or OS 10.6, Snow Leopard), Apple has excluded the Java plugin from all Mac compatible web browsers. In fact, around that time Apple released an update containing a function that expressly removes…
Where Did Network Utility and RAID Utility Go In Yosemite?
Pior to OS 10.10, Yosemite, all versions of OS X shipped armed with Network Utility and RAID Utility as standard. The default locations of these applications was found in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder on each OS…
How to Get An External Optical Drive Working With DVD Player Application
By default, the latest Mac portables now ship sans an optical drive. There are also those who have older Mac portables which shipped with optical drives which have either broken down or the owner has…
Overcome File Permission Issues In SSD and HDD Setups – Duplicate Files Exactly
In our previous article DIY Fusion Drive Or Separate SSD and Hard Drive? we compared the benefits and challenges of installing a mix configuration of Solid State Drive (SSD) and the traditional hard drive (HDD) into…