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Mac Maintenance

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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Which costs more, a Mac or a PC?

by danette March 22, 2010 Digital Lifestyle

From the EXCELLENT Macgasm.net Blog Author Credit: Gerard Lagana In this on-going debate of whether a Windows computer is cheaper than a Mac computer, you need to take two things into account. First, the upfront cost of each of the computers. Second, the total cost of ownership, or TCO for short. For the sake of this [...]

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Need to change the “home” computer for your iPhone/iTouch?

by Wyn Matthews March 17, 2010 Mac Maintenance

Here’s a horror story from the field, made un-horrible with a just few steps: You buy a new computer – and your iPhone is synched to the old one. Bummer. It can only belong to one iTunes library and iTunes now wants to erase your iPhone. Now what? These simple steps will move your iPhone [...]

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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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An Introduction to the FoleyPod Help Desk

by Chris Foley February 7, 2010 Mac Maintenance

We’re really pleased to announce the launch of our own Automated Help Desk system for receiving and tracking support requests for our customers. Our Help Desk software allows us to capture your information as soon as you report your issue, and keep a record of the support session, from start to finish. There is also [...]

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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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