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10-Second Tips

10 Second Tip : Repair Disk Permissions

by Chris Foley April 23, 2010 10-Second Tips

It’s inevitable. Sooner or later, no matter how well you take care of your Mac, you’re going to experience some slow performance and be confronted with the dreaded, spinning pinwheel, also known as the spinning beach ball, sometimes known as the spinning pinwheel of death. No one wants a slow Mac, so here’s this week’s [...]

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10 Second Tip: Customize Your Toolbars

by Wyn Matthews March 11, 2010 10-Second Tips

When Apple releases a product, they have to set the interface in such a way that it’s “fits” a broad range of user ability and experience. Once you own the product, it’s time to make it “yours” by customizing the way it looks and works. One cool place to do that is the Finder and [...]

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10 Second Tip: Going beyond Mac OSX “Permissions Repair”

by Chris Foley February 8, 2010 10-Second Tips

Here’s a great (and brief) article from MacWorld’s Christopher Breen covering what to do when your permissions issues go beyond what your Mac’s built-in Disk Utility software will repair. While rare, this issue is one I’ve seen before, often when someone is moving from an older version of OSX (like 10.2 Jaguar or 10.3 [...]

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Tip: How to take a Screenshot on Mac OSX and Windows

by Chris Foley January 24, 2010 10-Second Tips

The ability to take a picture of what’s on your computer screen (also called a “screenshot”) is a very handy one. If you’re a technology or social media blogger, it’s an essential one. One of the most common reasons for taking a screenshot, in my field, is for my customers to be able to show [...]

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10-Second Tip: Backup your Boot Camp Partition

by Wyn Matthews January 14, 2010 10-Second Tips

Time machine is a breeze. We’ve been a really big fan of Time Machine since before 10.5 Leopard was even available. Backups used to be really difficult to manage, and restoring from a backup was a task that your average user simply could not do themselves. With Time Machine, Apple has put more power and [...]

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Adobe Shortcut App Makes Finding Hotkeys Easier

by Chris Foley August 18, 2009 10-Second Tips

I just found out about this great tool from a story over at the LifeHacker website, which I read quite often. Click through to the original article HERE to download the FREE Adobe Shortcut App. Here’s an excerpt from the Lifehacker article: Windows/Mac/Linux: The free Adobe Shortcut App gives fast access to look up keyboard shortcuts [...]

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