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RIP AppleTalk

Eleven years ago Apple dropped support for AppleTalk networking. But wasn’t it like Bonjour?

July 19, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Strip for speed?

How can I strip OS X down to improve iMovie’s performance?

July 18, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Which workgroup file server?

What should be buy for a workgroup server for our group of 11 designers? A NAS, Mac Pro, or Mac mini?

July 18, 2015 Macs, Technology

Message from MacUser’s grave

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It was almost six months to the day since MacUser’s untimely death that my incoming email contained a message from the deceased publication.

July 18, 2015 General, Life, Macs

Who was first: 1 robust timestamping of documents

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Proving the date of origin of anything electronic – for patent or copyright purposes, perhaps – has been well nigh impossible. But that has now changed.

July 18, 2015 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Hard decisions

There is now a better way to estimate likely hard disk life than Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF).

July 18, 2015 Macs, Technology

Landscape Visions: 2 Landscape contained

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Because these landscape elements are constrained within the overall work, the artist has complete control over them, something reflected in their reading too. Such cameo landscapes are never awe-inspiring, but subjugate to the whole.

July 17, 2015 Painting

Q&A: Wild Trackpad

I have added a wireless Magic Trackpad, and sometimes the pointer goes wild, shooting all over the screen. How can I fix it?

July 17, 2015 Macs, Technology

Crash crash

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Whenever the bug occurred, it set the screen into a steady roll. The only way out was to pull down a menu command, no mean feat when pointer, menu bar and the whole caboodle are rolling past your eyes.

July 17, 2015 Macs, Technology

Let me in: authentication and authorisation

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Access controls require confirmation of who you are, and verification that you are permitted to use the system or services.

July 16, 2015 Macs, Technology

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