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To Buy Or Not To Buy 5 Dec 2012 | 08:02 am
My 2008 Mac Pro has done sterling service over the past 4 years 9 months. I bought it back in February 2008 with a single Quad-core 2.8GHz Xenon CPU, single 500Gb internal hard drive, 4Gb of RAM and a...
Giving Google Chrome the heave-ho 12 Jan 2012 | 11:20 am
Like it or hate it? I won’t go into the reasons why you might want Google Chrome on your Mac in the first place, or the reasons you might have for wanting to remove it other than to say this app is a...
Goodbye Steve 6 Oct 2011 | 11:42 pm
I can’t hope to match the many eloquent tributes to Steve that are appearing today, so I shall leave you to find and ponder those. All I can say is that I never had the pleasure of knowing you Steve,...
Lion Upgrade Woes On A 2008 Mac Pro 3 Aug 2011 | 06:10 pm
The one thing that has really struck me over the past three and a half years is just how solid and reliable my early 2008 Mac Pro has been. It came installed with Leopard and when Snow Leopard came ou...
Re-installing an iPhone App 18 Jul 2011 | 11:58 pm
I was asked a question recently about re-installing an app on an iPhone, which while relatively straightforward does include a few steps which may not be obvious. So, using our favourite TodUhr Unche...
Apple WWDC 2011 – A feature I’d like to see 6 Jun 2011 | 06:33 pm
(Image courtesy of modmyi.com) The air is thick with rumours and predictions. What will be in Lion, iOS5 and iCloud? Everyone is having their say and it makes for interesting reading even if most of ...
Mac Malware – Here’s An Idea 26 May 2011 | 06:58 pm
MacDefender (and now a few variants) has been making a name for itself recently. The first piece of Mac malware that’s managed to catch people who weren’t downloading some cracked application or other...
The Snow Leopard Pixelated (Fuzzy) Icon Bug – Possible Fix? 17 Jan 2011 | 03:08 am
I wrote a post a while back about the problem I was getting with pixelated (fuzzy) icons under Snow Leopard. As soon as you start to use more than a few, the icons become fuzzy – almost like they’re e...
Upgrading the disk in a LaCie d2 Quadra 11 Jan 2011 | 10:39 pm
Following on from my post about upgrading one of the internal drives in my 2008 Mac Pro, I moved on to upgrading the disk inside my LaCie d2 Quadra external drive this morning. Once again pretty strai...
Upgrading drives on a Mac Pro – childs play 10 Jan 2011 | 08:01 am
What with all the American TV shows that I’m obliged to store (for the ladies that like that kind of stuff), the 1Tb data drive on my 2008 Mac Pro was starting to look a little squeezed. So, I dropped...
