10-Second Tips

Hello world! The Post that’s not a post

by Chris Foley on September 18, 2010

I learned something rather interesting last night, while pushing up the new FoleyPod revisions. The WordPress database that powers the site was starting to get a little bit funky, from being upgraded over the past 6 years, starting with WordPress 1.8. I decided to create a brand new database for the site, and import only [...]

10 Second Tip : Repair Disk Permissions

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by Chris Foley on April 23, 2010

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 [...]

10 Second Tip: Customize Your Toolbars

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by Wyn Matthews on March 11, 2010

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 [...]

10 Second Tip: Going beyond Mac OSX "Permissions Repair"

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by Chris Foley on February 8, 2010

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 [...]

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

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by Chris Foley on January 24, 2010

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 [...]

10-Second Tip: Backup your Boot Camp Partition

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by Wyn Matthews on January 14, 2010

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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