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Mac Maintenance

10 – Second Tip: Change Your Default Web Browser

by Chris Foley July 12, 2009 10-Second Tips

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

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 [...]

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10 Second Tip: Changing your Default Application Launcher

by Chris Foley June 12, 2009 10-Second Tips

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 as [...]

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10-Second Tip: Fix your Smashed Spotlight

by Chris Foley June 6, 2009 10-Second Tips

Is your Spotlight utility acting wacky lately? It happens a lot, don’t feel too bad. If your Mac is in otherwise good working order, it’s likely that Spotlight’s Index file has broken. You can force Spotlight to re-index your computer’s hard drive in a few short steps. Here’s how to fix Spotlight: First, click on [...]

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Fighting Hard Drive Fragmentation

by Chris Foley April 19, 2009 Mac Maintenance

You’ve likely never heard the term “Disk Fragmentation” before, unless of course, you’ve been using computers for so long that you can remember when they came with a 64 MB hard drive, or smaller. That was an awful long time ago and for the better part of the past decade, disk fragmentation is an issue [...]

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10 Second Tip: Lost Password? Break back in to your Mac.

by Chris Foley April 1, 2009 10-Second Tips

There are a few reasons you’d need to break into a Mac, and there are a few reasons I’m writing this article right now. I’ve put this article into the “10 – Second Tips” category though, so if you’re in a hurry, and would like to skip the explanation, just scroll on down to the [...]

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