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Category Archive: 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

Q&A: Pages + Finale = Opera

I am assembling an opera using Pages and Finale, into a PDF in Preview. Sometimes pages are replaced with blanks. How can I get this to work?

June 27, 2015 Macs, Technology

OS X blocks Adobe Flash prior to 18.0.0.194 and 13.0.0.296

Overnight, Apple has adjusted the Flash Player blocking system in OS X so that it now blocks all […]

June 27, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Archiving mail

What is the best way to archive some of my 250,000 emails prior to migrating to a new Mac?

June 26, 2015 Macs, Technology

Primum non nocere

For my money, at the moment, Objective-See’s free products are targeted at the real threats, and don’t screw OS X up or around.

June 26, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Dead shared photo drive

Is there anything else I can try to salvage a dead external hard drive, and how should I replace it?

June 25, 2015 Macs, Technology

Good Lords! How UK government has ignored online crime

Perhaps this shocking litany of lame excuses and perpetual procrastination is reflection of a covert policy to take crime off the streets, and put it onto the Internet instead.

June 25, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

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