How to clone a Internal hard drive on a Mac

Here we have a Server HD that needs to be cloned. In this technique we boot to an external drive on the machine in question and clone the Server HD to another Hard drive using Carbon Copy Cloner. This is a very simple method to make a clone of a existing system. This application can be used in many different circumstances and is great to back up any system you have running on a Mac. Hope you like the video.

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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Magic Mouse 2 and Magic keyboard

The Magic Keyboard and Magic Mouse 2 have been out since Oct 2015 replacing the similar designed mouse and a more flatter triangle shaped design keyboard with a rechargeable battery instead of the AA batteries. In theory gone now are the days of having a issue with a keyboard or mouse losing connection to the mac. Now you just plug in the lighting cable and away you go, well the keyboard anyhow, the mouse is a bit difficult to work with while its plugged in for regarding. Continue reading “Magic Mouse 2 and Magic keyboard”