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"show keyboard & character viewers in menu bar" - BROKEN??
System Preferences > Keyboard > "show keyboard & character viewers in menu bar" tick box [ticked]. This will NOT stay ticked, or show in the menu bar. If I go back to all sys prefs, or close...
View ArticleBest app for taking screenshots of Apple.com
I was looking for a good way to take screenshots of an entire page of apple.com. I usually use the Inboard app, but when i try to take a screenshot of the iPhone 5SE page, a lot of the pictures of...
View ArticleIf set-up screen appears - does that mean data is deleted?
Hi, I have just sold my Macbook Pro. I used Migration Assistant to transfer to my new mac which went fine. I did the usual signout of icloud, imessages, deauthorise itunes etc.. Then used Disk Utility...
View ArticleLocation independent files (patent granted to Apple in November 2015)
Preamble: I learnt of this July 2013 application shortly before Christmas that year. I have been thrown off the scent but still, it interests me. I haven't given it much thought in recent months...
View ArticleAPFS
Just wanting to get a thread started on APFS which in my opinion is the most important announcement today. APFS New features: Flash / SSD Optimisation Space Sharing Cloning of Files and Directories...
View ArticleWhat on earth is a .xip file?
Hopefully I'm not breaking NDA here, but the Xcode 8 beta is being distributed as a "xip" file. Was this mentioned anywhere today? Or has this file format been around for a while, and I just missed it...
View ArticleSpinning beach ball, I've tried everything..
Or have I ?! My 10.6.8 starts ok and once logged in I can open a few windows but then I get the spinning ball after a few minutes and/ or if I try to open an app. It is only half full and was running...
View Article...versus Windows 10?
I just went from Windows 7 to 10 on my work computer (Core 2 Duo/4GB RAM/5400k hard drive/model year 2008) and have to say I am quite impressed. It seems like Microsoft really stepped up their game by...
View ArticleThe disk 'disk-name' wasn't ejected because one or more programs might be...
Hi, I often get this message when ejecting external harddrives: "The disk 'disk-name' wasn't ejected because one or more programs might be using it" I've been looking around for answers and found this...
View ArticleAdministering OS X in Win domain
I am an IT Windows admin for a 200 person company with a growing population of Mac OS X users. They are like cockroaches just popping up everywhere! I'm rather new to administering OS X systems. Aside...
View ArticleUser Account Question
When we bought our MacBook Pro a few months ago I set it up with my user ID first which I quickly saw uses my Apple ID password, I then set up my wife's ID and at first used her Apple ID password, but...
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