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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.
Here is another simple tip for the mac user. This is a simple process of how to install Mozilla firefox (web browser ) on a mac. The video was recorded on El Capitan (10.11) however any current OS has the sample principles.
Here is a A simple tip on how to upgrade your Flash Player to the newest version from Adobe and and a simple finder tip for favourites and how to make your hard drive appear on the desktop.
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?
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”