Category: News

How to Free up Space on Your Mac

This article came about because of a client who is overseas. He wrote me an email saying that he couldn’t figure out where all of the space on his MacBook Air SSD had gone. This question doesn’t have a simple answer, so I’m writing this to help him, and everyone else out. Here’s the problem- There are lots of similar

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iCal Server- Sending and Receiving invites

I want to acknowledge the huge help that Andre LeBranche of Apple has been with this issue. You rock! Here’s what we were trying to do- in Lion Server v10.7 Get iCal server to send and receive invitations via email to people not on the local network from a server on a private network (no FQDN) where the clients email

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When your Internet Dies

What do you do when your internet connection goes down? Do you sit and twiddle your thumbs until it comes back up? Or do you realise how much it is costing you in lost productivity and yell at people until something is done?   Recently my ISP (who shall remain nameless) caused me a great deal of heartache and a

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Apple Disables Java!

  … and nobody notices. Well, not quite. I did have one client put out because they swap files with someone who uses a Java based file loader. What’s more interesting is how Apple disabled it. Like most of you (OK big assumption) I ignored the fact that Apple has a technology they call Xprotect. This is a mechanism whereby

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New MacBook Pros and a Special Offer

This will be a quick one, folks. As you are probably aware, Apple announced new MacBook Pros overnight Tuesday US time. First the speeds and feeds, then the analysis. MC374X/A MacBook Pro 13″ 2.4GHz/ 2X2GB/ 250GB/ SuperDrive $1,499 RRP inc MC375X/A MacBook Pro 13″ 2.66GHz/ 2X2GB/ 320GB/ SuperDrive $1,899 RRP inc MC371X/A MacBook Pro 15″ 2.4GHZ i5/ 2X2GB/ 320GB/ SuperDrive $2,199 RRP inc

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Service Agreements- Announcing Silver!

Do you have 4 or more Macs? We’ve been servicing customers on a ‘one monthly payment gets you everything’ basis for some time now, and the thing that comes up when talking to prospective clients a lot is this- The customers already on the service love it, however new prospects can’t understand that they would need so much IT support.

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Apple Stock for Christmas/ Price Reductions!

Late last week Apple quietly snuck out price reductions on their remaining range which is almost unheard of. Typically Apple will only change a products price when a replacement comes out. For example- when the new iMacs were announced, one of the 27″ models came in below the price of the 24″ it replaced. This is due to the strong

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More Info About Your Mac

Apple Service Providers have the ability to look up all sorts of information about your Mac just from the serial number, however that site is not available to the public. I’ve stumbled across a website that tries to mirror that information for the public- All about your Mac It includes a lot of great information, including the site of the

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