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.
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Oracle has released a new build of Java, designated 8u45, which contains important and strongly recommended security updates. […]
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.
Q Whenever I try to open Safari, I see an alert informing me that it quit unexpectedly while […]
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.
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.
One of the security fixes announced in OS X 10.10.3 was a puzzle. In the words of Apple’s […]
Freshly installed OS X has clear ideas about what should go where. Does it really matter, or can […]
Now that my logs have stopped spewing errors, the hard disk is no longer churning, and the dust is settling, it is time for a hot washup on the OS X 10.10.3 update.
I sat in front of my iMac, only to discover that the Internet was gone. The right lights still shone on my modem-router, but no matter where I pointed Safari, I got a near-instant error.
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