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 enter your query word into the Dictionary widget text field as you normally would and then – nothing happens, or […]
At some point, we believe everyone has experienced this error message during a sync between iTunes and your iPad or iPhone (Apple still has some polishing to do for iTunes). Despite repeated syncs, usually, the error repeats. There are 2 steps to take to remedy this: Hard reset your iOS device – Read More
This comes as a general caution for modders who are looking to add a hard drive caddy to install an additional hard drive in place of the existing Superdrive (‘optibay’) in non-Retina 15″ and 17″ Macbook Pro’s. In general, this is a popular mod which boosts most (non-Retina) Macbook Pro’s Read More
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 during the actual Windows 8/8.1 Boot Camp installation. You’ve done everything according to the Apple Boot Camp Read More
For Mac admins, there seems (at time of writing) to be another bug with Yosemite (10.10.1) which involves Apple Remote Desktop (ARD). At time of writing, the latest ARD release is version 3.7.2. The problem has been logged since October 2014 at Apple’s Support Communities Apple Remote Desktop forum and centers Read More
Be careful when you scour the internet in search of your next download. The growing ubiquity of Macs across the globe raises the platform’s desirability to hackers. Basically hackers are as calculative as the next guy or girl; they too want maximum impact in return for their efforts. These Read More
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 a Mac system. In that article we recommended Fusion Drive as the way to Read More
In late October 2014 Samsung has ponied up to the shortcomings of the read speeds of their Samsung SSD EVO 840 over time. In light of this Samsung claims that they have found the fix and released a firmware update to address this issue. The reported bug affects the read speed of Read More
Here at MacRiot we’ve noticed that Time Machine has slowed significantly since our Solid State Drive (SSD) conversions on our Macs. To the extent that backups crawl along by the kb! This observation is based on Time Machine performed via a direct connection using FireWire. Whether this is attributable Read More
Its unexplainable and has been occurring since the first introduction of Gestures into OS X in 2005 where two-finger scrolling was first debut to the world. Once in a while. Without warning. Explanation. Gestures just suddenly stop working. The fix? Hold down CMD + Option + ESC to summon the Force Quit window; Read More
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