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 missing! Don’t panic. Its not curtains yet for MenuMeters.Read More
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 to replicate on demand. Despite all attempts to troubleshoot the problem to find the root cause (including swapping our RAM […]Read More
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 realise that the last version of Aperture was 3.4.5 and now it does not work with Yosemite…. Here’s how to […]Read More
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 result of a buggy Discoveryd process), the main bit of this releases that thrills many Mac cultists out there is […]Read More
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 […]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 Windows Installation Guide […]Read More
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 the Java plugin from OS X. Since then, Apple has stopped including Java as part of its OS X install. […]Read More
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 X. Now with Yosemite, these applications are noticeably missing. Good news though, Apple did not remove these applications. A quick […]Read More
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 elected to extend the life of their beloved Mac portables by displacing the optical drive with an additional hard drive […]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 go for an almost seamless user experience […]Read More
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