By Mark Tennent in Reader
Posted in utilities on July 31, 2008 at 10:04 am
Running antivirus software on a Mac is like buying life insurance. You can can pay a fortune for something you’ll never actually benefit from personally. Luckily there are free antivirus solutions and recently a new one has appeared for Intel Macs. Read more
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Posted in Gripes moans and whinges on July 24, 2008 at 10:46 am
We have been persuaded to share a g
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By Mark Tennent in Reader
Posted in Hard drives, Apple on July 15, 2008 at 3:34 pm
Perpendicular storage, who would have thought we needed it? We can remember turning our old Mac IIci’s on their side, and our external drives run upright. Surely that’s perpendicular enough for any man or woman? Read more
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By Mark Tennent in Reader
Posted in Uncategorized on July 8, 2008 at 12:33 pm
One of the few refugees left behind during the switch from an IBM G5 to Intel Xeon powered Mac was a little Photoshop plug-in named pxl SmartScale. When we tried to run it, the dialogue boxes were messed-up and Photoshop crashed trying to enlarge an image with SmartScale. That is, until we worked out a little wrinkle to get it running on Intel. Read more
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By Mark Tennent in Reader
Posted in Images, Uncategorized on July 3, 2008 at 9:45 am
The following images are the track of a person’s journey from Edgware to Worthing. These are just about the scariest images I’ve seen because all that was needed was a tiny, in-car gizmo, satellites did the rest. Read more
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By Mark Tennent in Reader
Posted in utilities, Leopard, Apple on July 2, 2008 at 2:26 pm
Those of us lucky enough to get a new Mac from time to time (hum hum) will be thanking Apple for Time Machine. It takes all the hassle out of setting up a new Mac, a task that used to take days to install, register, configure and upgrade all the applications. As our recent experience found, Time Machine archives are a rich ground for ardent tinkerers who never RTFM. And if they do they don’t believe all they read. Read more
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