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Start planning your Mac’s Spring clean

Spring will soon be upon us, and it’s time to plan our Spring software housekeeping to clear out the junk that has accumulated over the winter. How to go about it.

February 6, 2025 Macs, Technology

Caring for well-washed hands

Are your hands becoming dry and cracked with all this washing? Here are simple, cheap and proven solutions.

March 16, 2020 General, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Disinfecting your Mac and devices

Are cleaning and disinfecting the same? What should you do with a keyboard if it has been used by someone with Coronavirus? What’s the evidence?

March 14, 2020 General, Life, Macs, Technology

How to clean Macs and other Apple hardware

What does Apple now recommend to ensure that your Mac and other hardware can be cleaned of possible COVID-19 virus?

March 10, 2020 General, Macs, Technology

When you can’t get macOS to forget

The greatest skill in memory is not the remembering, but knowing what to forget – something that macOS is useless at. Why doesn’t it clear out its old crud?

July 4, 2018 Macs, Technology

Prepare for repair: taking or sending a Mac in

Don’t let a repairer see a dirty Mac: they may refuse to complete the repair under warranty. Give it a clean first.

June 29, 2016 Macs, Technology

Why you shouldn’t use cleaning or housekeeping apps

It looked alluring: free up disk space, make my Mac faster, and clean out malware. Should you trust it?

May 28, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

Q&A: Cleaning cleaners – getting rid of unwanted utilities

How can I rid my Mac of CleanMyMac and Reduce The Lag, which my logs say are still hanging around?

October 10, 2015 Macs, Technology
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