Easy one (I hope) for the Pro's
Guys, I have a 2010 MAC that came with OSX 10.7. The hard drive died and I had a spare one lying around. The spare had a version of Windows 7 on it but I proceeded to psychically replace it - all good....
View ArticleComparing a Mac Mini with an iMac
I have a great Cinema 27" display which is pretty new. I am trying to compare a new iMac with a 3.2GHz Processor, 1TB Storage and 16Gig with a new Mac Mini 2.8GHz Processor, 1TB Storage with 16Gig. I...
View ArticleMacBook Air can't install OS X *Need Expert Help*
I have been working on this for 2 days now with 0 success. I have a first addition Macbook Air model A1237 that came with no hard drive due to it being donated from a college. I have no other working...
View ArticleI installed the Apricorn Velocity Solo x2 in a Mac Pro 4,1 Quad Core
The Velocity Solo x2 with a Samsung 850 Evo 1TB SSD was installed in PCIe slot #2 right next to the Nvidia card. The SSD came from my MacBook Pro and already had Yosemite 10.10.5 but I reformat and...
View ArticleMonitor keep changing if I play games
I have my own calibrated monitor profile for adobe rgb display but if I start game application, the monitor profile change to other poor monitor profile which has very awful colors and tones. I have no...
View Articleads
I have a macbook pro late 2011 and use os x 10.8. I get so many ads pop up ads throughout articles and at side of screen. Some websites also run slow - if I'm trying to read an article, the fan will...
View ArticleSafari freezing with some Youtube videos
Try playing this video and going into fullscreen more than once. Your mac will freeze up. youtube.com/watch?v=jwhFr5Ax3Fk Tried this with 2 macbooks in the Apple store, looks like a bug with Safari...
View ArticleHiding Dock Icon
Hello, how to hide dock icon, when app does not provide option to hide it's icon from dock while running? Thanks
View ArticleOS X and 4G wifi don't mix?
I'm researching going wireless, and I just read someone's post in a forum for a device for that service that 4G doesn't work with OS X. True?
View ArticleIf I want to save a file to folder B, but point it to folder A, what should I...
I'm not sure what title to give to this question, nor where to post it What I want is: when I save a file to folder A, it will automatically save it to folder B, and delete it from folder A, what...
View ArticleOS X hang on startup before Login Window at Create Prelinked Kernel
I am experiencing a hang on OS X startup that has begun recently when rebooting. According to the system log, the hang is occurring at the line: com.apple.kextcache Created prelinked kernel...
View ArticleHow does one crop a full screen video?
I made a quicktime movie of my full screen in El Capitan. I want to crop this movie (NOT Trim) at a different aspect than the original 27" aspect recorded. Is it possible to crop to any aspect, or am I...
View ArticleKeep getting this message in iTunes: "We could not complete your iTunes Store...
I keep getting this message from iTunes for the past few months: View attachment 609791 "We could not complete your iTunes Store request. The network connection timed out. Make sure your network...
View Articlehow to block ads
My Macbook Pro with OS X Mountain Lion is infested with ads and pop ups. I've tried malware bytes but they are occuring worse than ever. I use Firefox browser. How to get rid of these?
View ArticleHow to sort photos albums?
Maybe I've just had a few too many gin and tonics but I can't for the life of me figure out how to sort Photos albums so the *newest* photos are at the top... This seems like such a no brainer option...
View Articlemoving files without Time machine re-indexing them
Hi, I have my iTunes music and Aperture photo libraries on a single drive, which is running out of space, and need to get the music off so I can keep ingesting new photos. Problem is, if I just move...
View ArticlePreview won't let me save annotations in original
I use an app called Papership to manage my PDFs, and Preview to annotate them, but Preview won't let me save annotations to the original document, and instead asks me to duplicate (and then I have to...
View ArticleGUI/UI/UX/human interface design blunders in applications for Mac OS X
Mac OS X including OS X and macOS excluding iOS GUI = graphical user interface UX = user experience human interface as in OS X Human Interface Guidelines … The question What design blunders have Mac...
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