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OS X Lion USB Thumb Drive

August 18, 2011

Apple is now selling a thumb drive installer on the Apple online store (and perhaps in brick/mortar stores as well) for $69.00. The absence of a Lion install DVD has caused a bit of uproar (Lion, roar… never mind) with users who are concerned that if they need to reinstall their system, there’s no easy [...]

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Lion 10.7.1 Update released

August 17, 2011

Apple released the first update to Mac OS X 10.7 yesterday, patching some bugs. Along with the update the following instructions and information were published: Updating your system You should back up your system before installation; you can use Time Machine. Do not interrupt the installation process once you have started to update your system. [...]

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Shortcuts to speed up your Mac workflow

August 15, 2011

Thanks to Small Dog Electronics for publishing a list of very useful keyboard shortcuts. I’m publishing them as well, but if you want to see the Small Dog blog post, look here. Create a new folder: Command-Shift-N Open a new Finder window: Command-N Switch Application: Command-Tab Find: Command-F Select All: Command-A Copy: Command-C Cut: Command-X [...]

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Lion is here…

August 13, 2011

Lion is here! I’ve installed Lion on my MacPro, and so far am pretty well trouble free. I’ve had to update a few applications, and switched from Quicken 2007 to iBank (Quicken Essentials is the only version that works with Lion at this time) but for the most part it’s not been a problem for [...]

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iOS 4.3.5 released – Important security update

August 1, 2011

Apple patched a security vulnerability last week with the iOS 4.3.5 release. Certificate validation vulnerabilities were the issue, while 4.3.4 patched PDF vulnerabilities. 4.3.5 applies to the iPad and iPad2, iPod Touch (generation 3 and 4) and the iPhone 3GS and 4 (GSM). The Verizon iPHone4 will upgrade to iOS 4.2.10. I highly recommend all [...]

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Notes from a Lion crash-test dummy

July 22, 2011

I installed Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Wednesday afternoon, on my clone drive, and played with it until about 11pm. Yesterday I installed it on my main drive, and struggled for a while. It turns out that Glims made Safari very unstable, and when I figured that out, the constant crashes stopped. Updating Default Folder [...]

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Prep your Mac for Lion

July 5, 2011

Get ready for OS X 10.7 Computerworld posted an article today by Greg Keizer that spells out what you need (bare minimums) in the way of hardware, and what it will take to buy and install Lion. Greg also recommends, as do I, a complete backup prior to the upgrade. Time Machine or a clone [...]

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Prevent Mac laptop overheating in your carrying bag

July 1, 2011

Prevent fried MacBooks, and expensive repairs I’ve had a couple of clients fry their MacBooks/Macbook Pros by having them wake from sleep in their laptop bag. This was expensive, and preventable, but only if the user is aware of the issue. I’ve carried my laptops in sleep mode around the world since I bought a [...]

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Lion – a plus for businesses

June 27, 2011

Macworld.com’s John C. Welch wrote today about what Lion’s new features bring to businesses. The article, Mac IT Guy: What Lion means for businesses, is certainly an opinion, but I agree with John’s points. AirDrop, to move files between Macs on a network, will be big for me, even with only a couple of Macs [...]

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What applications will work on Lion?

June 18, 2011

Roaringapps.com has a compatibility table of applications that work, have some problems, don’t work at all or haven’t yet been tested with Mac OS X 10.7. Check through this list, if you’re thinking of upgrading to Lion as soon as it comes out. Make sure that you don’t have essential applications that won’t run, because [...]

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