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Category Archive: Macs

Have you ever been had?

Imagine my horror when I found that I had installed an unwanted cleaning utility on my iMac.

July 5, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Target optical drives

Is it possible to access an optical drive using Target mode?

July 4, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Disposing of a dead hard drive

How can I make the files on a dead hard disk unreadable before I discard it?

July 4, 2015 Macs, Technology

Timing shots, a software obituary

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Barry Salt analysed film shot structure using a stop-watch and film viewer. The late TOKI Shot did this semi-automatically.

July 4, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

Q&A: Replacing an ‘Angle-poise’ iMac

Could I get my mother’s old iMac reconditioned? If not, how can I replace it like-for-like?

July 3, 2015 Macs, Technology

Mark my words

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For reasons known only to Microsoft, Word will never tell you that your document is too tough for a 17 year-old to read.

July 3, 2015 General, Language, Life, Macs, Technology

Q&A: Managing colour profiles

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I tried to remove some colour profiles using the Finder, but they still appear in the menu. Is there a better way?

July 2, 2015 Macs, Technology

Hot Stuff

If you ever used a PowerBook G4 on naked flesh, you will already have experienced the thermal limit to processor speed.

July 2, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

Q&A: Can I install a third-party SSD in my Mac?

Do I need any additional software to support it?

July 1, 2015 Macs, Technology

Going viral: making models

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Models used so far to explain viral events lack explanatory or predictive value. It is time to turn to Catastrophe Theory.

July 1, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

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