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Reinstalling OS X

My iMac has a mysterious complaint: it keeps shutting down, about once a day, for no obvious reason. For a computer that is left on 24×7 to record TV and run offsite backup this is a bit of a problem. Yesterday, amongst other things, Apple techs had me wipe the...

OS X Keyboard shortcuts

An article on keyboard shortcuts in HowToGeek caught my eye this morning. The richness of keyboard shortcuts in OS X continues to amaze me (hold shift whilst minimising a window – why would anyone bother to program that?). Most software companies to make a song...

Time Machine: love it/hate it

Backups, we all know we should and many of us neglect them because it is too fiddly, too slow, too much trouble, whatever. One of the things that I love about OS X is Time Machine, Apple’s built-in proprietary backup software, because it runs in the background...

Mac vs Windows – a simple task compared

Recently we acquired a new printer which is attached to our home network. Setting up our various Macs to use it was a dream, the work of a minute or so, as each computer found the printer using Apple’s Bonjour service. My wife’s Windows PC was a different...