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Choosing and Using Peripheral Buses

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Out with USB 2 and in with USB 3; out with FireWire and in with Thunderbolt, then Thunderbolt 2. But which should you choose to use, and how?

April 21, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Low-res movie on Blu-ray

I have been trying to burn some high-def movies to Blu-ray using Toast Titanium 11 Pro. All work fine except for one, which repeatedly ends up in standard definition. Why?

April 21, 2015 Macs, Technology

Disk Utility and diskutil

Disk Utility may seem the most mundane of all the utilities, but together with its command shell partners packs a real punch in several important areas.

April 15, 2015 Macs, Technology

Java update 8u45

Oracle has released a new build of Java, designated 8u45, which contains important and strongly recommended security updates. […]

April 14, 2015 Macs

When the backups stop: unravelling wireless backups

Maintaining backups with Time Machine or third-party software over a WiFi network is very convenient, but when it goes wrong can be a devil to repair. Here’s how to unravel these problems.

April 14, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Safari crashes when opening

Q Whenever I try to open Safari, I see an alert informing me that it quit unexpectedly while […]

April 13, 2015 Macs, Technology

Has The App Lost Its Value?

We now have a choice of models: those that grip you by the short and curlies, such as Adobe’s Creative Cloud, or the App Store’s take-it-or-leave-it, in which you pay full price for every major release irrespective of existing licences.

April 11, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

Plaster in Paris

We were returning from an idyllic Pyrenean holiday, and had just boarded the Eurostar in Paris, when my wife announced that she had lost her passport.

April 10, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Troy under seige: OS X 10.10.3 is no defence

One of the security fixes announced in OS X 10.10.3 was a puzzle. In the words of Apple’s […]

April 9, 2015 Macs, Technology

Everything in its place

Freshly installed OS X has clear ideas about what should go where. Does it really matter, or can […]

April 9, 2015 Macs, Technology

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