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Category Archive: Macs

Location, Location, Location

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Location services aid navigation, enhance your photography, and can even enrich your social life. Here’s how to get thoroughly geotagged.

May 25, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Opaque optical drive

The optical drive in our iMac refuses to read most disks, normally spitting them out even though the disks have usually spun up inside. What is wrong with it?

May 25, 2015 Macs, Technology

eMail without tears or fears

Six simple questions to make your messages more effective.

May 25, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Q&A: Spelling colour correctly

Pages seems stuck using American spelling. How can I change it to use British English instead?

May 24, 2015 Macs, Technology

Crash trash

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The computing sense of crash lacks onomatopœa, is gross hyperbole, and is far too widely encompassing to be meaningful.

May 24, 2015 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Q&A: Lost keychain

I have lost my default keychain, which disappeared from Keychain Access. Where can I find it?

May 23, 2015 Macs, Technology

Making My PowerPoint

She was reduced to giving her half-hour talk whilst pointing at successive thumbnails in PowerPoint’s overview. Members of the audience tucked into flasks of coffee, or rose and strode out.

May 23, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

-14: Establishing a dial-up connection to your ISP (in 2001)

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Step-by-step instructions for setting up a dial-up Internet connection under Mac OS 8 or 9.

May 22, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

Q&A: Pointless purges

Although my Mac has 6 GB of memory, I have had to use the purge command with depressing frequency since OS X 10.6, before quitting anything, particularly Safari.

May 22, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Encrypt and destroy

Q I started transferring files from my iMac running OS X 10.6.8 to an encrypted memory stick, when […]

May 22, 2015 Macs, Technology

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