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Category Archive: Macs

Q&A: Scripting Mail to send Out of Office responses

Is it possible to script Apple’s Mail to send an automated response, such as an ‘out of office’ reply, to all incoming email?

July 1, 2015 Macs, Technology

Nice or Nasty?

In my experience, the results of such tinkering are nice, in the most devalued sense of the word, and far from cool.

July 1, 2015 Macs, Technology

OS X 10.10.4: big fixes, shame about Apple Music

A complicated update which includes a firmware update, but does not open iTunes for Apple Music (yet).

June 30, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

OS X 10.10.4 update is now available

Apple has just made OS X 10.10.4 available through the App Store. It is a large download – […]

June 30, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

Q&A: Add memory, get panics

After installing additional memory, my iMac keeps falling over, usually with a kernel panic. Is this a problem with Yosemite?

June 30, 2015 Macs, Technology

Bring out your bugs

Software vendors should be able to take pride in the way in which they address bugs, not feel so ashamed that the information has to be kept quiet.

June 30, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

Q&A: Finder grown old

My Finder icon, shown in the Dock, has developed what appears to be grey hair around its upper corners. Why?

June 29, 2015 Macs, Technology

What’s in a Name?

I had just switched from satellite to ADSL broadband, and in the early evening, my old email addresses stopped, dead and gone forever.

June 29, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

Q&A: How much free space on a hard disk?

How much free disk space should I keep on two external hard drives, a 2 TB and a 250 GB?

June 28, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Running specialist Windows apps

Friends need a specialist Windows app, but want to run it on a Mac. Is this wise or feasible?

June 27, 2015 Macs, Technology

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