Mac Maintenance

Backup your Backup on OS X Lion

by Maximilian Lemos on August 20, 2011

OS X Lion was likely released download only as a means of promoting the the Mac App Store. I am all for the Mac App Store, it’s yet another step towards having an awesome cloud experience, but when it comes to a full-blown OS, I like to have a physical means of backing up my [...]

Protecting Your Mac from Malware

by Wyn Matthews on June 29, 2011

Understanding Malware threats to your Mac As a Mac user, one of the things you get to congratulate yourself about is choosing a computing world that is free from viruses. It’s true. In “the wild” there aren’t any Mac Viruses. But there is Mac Malware. The thing about Malware is that it can’t install itself. [...]

Your Passwords are NOT Secure

by Wyn Matthews on June 28, 2011

Understanding password security and management Passwords are like keys to the physical buildings, cars or rooms that you use. Your house, car, vacation house, hotel room, safety deposit box, etc. In our physical world, we take it for granted that each of these keys are different. By these obvious standards, in our digital world, we [...]

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 [...]

Which costs more, a Mac or a PC?

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by Chris Foley on March 22, 2010

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 [...]

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

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by Wyn Matthews on March 17, 2010

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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