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Mac Maintenance

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

by Chris Foley February 8, 2010 10-Second Tips

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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

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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 a [...]

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10-Second Tip: Backup your Boot Camp Partition

by Wyn Matthews January 14, 2010 10-Second Tips

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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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10 – Second Tip: Change Your Default Web Browser

by Chris Foley July 12, 2009 10-Second Tips

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With the release of Safari 4, Apple has given us some very compelling reasons to stick with Safari as our default web browser. But perhaps you’re still running OSX 10.3 or 10.4 and can’t get the newest version of the fastest web browser. Or perhaps you simply prefer to use another browser such as [...]

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iMac and the constantly ejected CDs

by Chris Foley July 6, 2009 Found Articles

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Here’s another great article from Chris Breen and Macworld.com. I see this issue quite often, and chances are, you’ve seen it too…
Here’s an excerpt:
Reader Linda Gardner seeks a cure for a cantankerous media drive. She writes:
Lately, when I insert a CD into the drive, the computer, after a few seconds, ejects the CD. I have [...]

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10 Second Tip: Changing your Default Application Launcher

by Chris Foley June 12, 2009 10-Second Tips

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The most common method of opening a file is to double-click on it, right? Well what happens when you double click on your file, and it opens in the wrong program, or won’t open at all?
Here’s a real-world example. You have Microsoft Excel installed on your Mac, but you have Apple’s iWork installed [...]

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