How to add and delete a user on your Mac

A quick video on how to create a new user on a mac, including the different types of user accounts. Also showing you how to delete a user from a mac.
A point to note: Before you create new user accounts, it’s important to understand the different types:

  • Administrator: Administrator accounts are special accounts that are used for making changes to system settings or managing other people’s accounts. They have full access to every setting on the computer.
  • Standard: Standard accounts are the basic accounts you use for normal everyday tasks.
  • Managed with Parental Controls: Managed accounts are the only ones that can have parental controls.
  • Sharing Only: If you want to let someone use your computer, but you don’t want to create a user account enable the person to access only the files and folders you specify.

How to turn the guest user turning on and off on a Mac

Here is another short video tip on how to enable and disable the guest user on a Mac. Guest user enables people to log into an account without a password. Anything the do will not be saved .i.e browser history. They can edit and share data across the network if that feature has been enabled when the guest account was turned on.

Repair your hard drive after a power failure

Disk Utility and how to use it:

Housekeeping on a Mac has never been easier. In this video we show you how to check your hard drive is ok and that the data on it including the operating system is journaled correctly within the machine. Doing this simple task once a month can help preserve the life of the hard drive and ensure if your machine encounter a hiccup such as a power failure won’t affect the machine operation effectiveness and more important enable the machine to boot correctly.

tuneupmymac nightmare!

What to do if you install tuneupmymac and how to uninstall it?

OK so I was on download.com today and a piece of software decided to download itself to my downloads folder.  The programme was automatically  downloaded as a little extra piece of software from my original programme I downloaded.  The program was called “tuneupmymac”.  This programme is another one of those call called pieces of software that will “fix” your mac mac it go faster etc etc.  Well thats what is says on the tin, so it must be true? Mustn’t it?

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Virus software


I am afraid gone are the days when Macs seemed to be impervious to virus. In the past 4 months I have seen a influx of malware, adware and spyware virus’s which have compromised a number of client machines both business and home users. People have been drawn into installing software programs such as Mackeeper to help improve the performance of their machine and identify “problems” within the machine before it affects the work flow of the end user. The really annoying thing about these programs is the easy that they are available while surfing the net. Continue reading “Virus software”