Mac Maintenance

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 [...]

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 [...]

10 – Second Tip: Change Your Default Web Browser

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by Chris Foley on July 12, 2009

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 [...]

iMac and the constantly ejected CDs

by Chris Foley on July 6, 2009

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 [...]

10 Second Tip: Changing your Default Application Launcher

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by Chris Foley on June 12, 2009

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 [...]

10-Second Tip: Fix your Smashed Spotlight

by Chris Foley on June 6, 2009

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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