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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

Rollout and rollover: when the App Store needs a refit

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.

April 9, 2015 Macs, Technology

The Cost of Not Restarting

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.

April 9, 2015 Macs, Technology

Safari 8.0.5, 7.1.5, and 6.2.5 security updates

Apple has just release updated versions of Safari: 8.0.5 for Yosemite (which is bundled in the OS X […]

April 8, 2015 Macs

Mac OS X 10.10.3 released

Apple has today released the update – all 2.02 GB of it – to bring current Yosemite systems […]

April 8, 2015 Macs, Technology

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