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Category Archive: Macs

Fusion Drives: the best thing to happen to El Capitan

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Why El Capitan needs an SSD or Fusion Drive, and all about their care and maintenance.

December 27, 2015 Macs, Technology

Unexpected Christmas presents: how Steam served the wrong user data

A single point of failure which discarded all privacy protection is hardly an example of good design.

December 27, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

Q&A: Mail duplicated

Messages arriving in Mail from my ISP keep arriving in duplicate. Why?

December 26, 2015 Macs, Technology

Which password? When to enter your user password, and when to use your Apple ID

Have you ever entered the password for your Mac instead of that for your Apple ID? This should help make it clearer which you need to use.

December 26, 2015 Macs, Technology

Another Year of the Mighty Falling

They fell in 2012, just as they did in 2015. But is Apple still innovating enough?

December 26, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

Steam leaked, servers shut down

A major problem with Valve’s Steam games servers has apparently resulted in those servers being shut down today, […]

December 25, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Files opened in the wrong app

When I double-click on an EPS file, it always opens in Adobe Photoshop. Why?

December 25, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Deepest sleep

When I leave my iMac to go to sleep, it cannot be woken and seems to have shut down. Is this a fault?

December 24, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Flying cursors

The cursor keeps flying off randomly on the screen, despite changing mouse, keyboard, and even Mac. Why?

December 23, 2015 Macs, Technology

Storyspace 3: building an interactive timeline

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It is straightforward to use Storyspace’s Map view for graphical layouts such as a timeline.

December 23, 2015 General, Language, Macs, Painting, Technology

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