When things go wrong with your Mac’s hardware, one of the first things to do before making any calls, is to determine your Mac’s serial number. There are several ways to get this but the fastest way, assuming your Mac can still boot up, is to use Mac OS X to tell you what the […]
Among the list of most Mac switchers’ first questions is “how do I defrag* my Mac’s hard drive?” In response, the question then becomes, do you need to defrag your Mac’s hard drive? There are two schools of thought in this arena and you can choose either. Apple’Read More
It looks like Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger is not exempt from the issues that plague the launch of new operating systems. Reports are a buzz on the Net about Tiger issues with certain Firewire hard drives and compatability with existing software. We have every confidence that Apple will iron out Read More
Hard drives like everything else contain moving parts and performance degradation occurs over time. Most hard drives have a general lifespan of about 3 years of regular use. After that you’re running a risk when you keep important data on that particularly aged hard drive. Data corruption can occur on Read More
If you’ve received or bought a Mac that is accompanied by a full version of Mac OS X 10.x’s restore DVD then it should come with an OS 9 Classic install package contained therein. The use of OS 9 Classic becomes important if you’re a parent shopping around for Read More
With the latest incarnation of iTunes (4.7.1) onwards, iTunes has adopted an inability to simply drag and drop tunes from anywhere within your iTunes library directly into an external source. What you’ll observe in so doing, is what seems to be a file transfer but nothing will appear to have Read More
Contrary to popular belief, one cannot simply access a Home Folder in the Mac OS X Finder and rename it. If you have attempted to do this you would quickly realise that when you eventually log in again, you face a minute of panic when the operating system seems to Read More
Macromedia has released its latest version 7.0 of its popular Flash Player for Mac OS X and its probably a good idea to pop by their Flash Player 7.0 download page to upgrade yours. If you haven’t already. Its a free download, and relatively painless install.Read More
We have received reports that the current release of XtremeMac’s AirPlay for iPods suffers from background noise. A slight constant buzzing is audible through your stereo speakers when AirPlay is in operation. At press time, XtremeMac representatives could not be contacted for comment.Read More
Some users have reported the inability to utilise the Junk Mail options in Hotmail when accessing Hotmail online using Mac browsers, eg inability to delete junk mail and also re-allocating mails as ‘not junk mail’. After some tests we found a way around it. “Thanks for reporting this Nick!” For Read More
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