I’m sure by now many of you have run into or at least heard of the popular virus being spread around with variations of the name “Mac Defender”. If you are unfamiliar with the concept, a great resource posted on Apple’s website on how to avoid or remove Mac Defender  [ Read More ]

When you own your own business, you often consider risk. What if my office burns down?  Someone slips and falls?  I get robbed?  You’ve got insurance against most of those.  However, too many businesses are unprotected against one of the most foreseeable and preventable risks:  data loss. All computers break.  [ Read More ]

An interesting threat has been brought to the Mac world today, one which Safari users should be wary of. A Malware .app file called “MACDefender” is finding its way onto Apple computers most commonly through Google searches. It will disguise itself as an antivirus software program, and will actually instantaneously  [ Read More ]

Now that I’ve conceptualized, organized, & digitized, it’s time to put myself into a box.  Enter the MacMini Server.  What?  A Server?  Isn’t that something that they use in business?  Sure, but it can do lots of wonderful things at home too.  Over the next few months, I’ll be writing  [ Read More ]

I love my laptop, even though it’s an older White MacBook from  2007.  However, I recently ran into a small problem…that is to say I found that my 80GB drive was nearly full (75.5GB used).  This caused my computer to suddenly run very badly (often not at all), and I  [ Read More ]

Now that my computer is neat and tidy and organized, and my house is becoming so, I’m taking the next step – digitize anything I can.  I actually discovered this to be a fantastic solution for the many treasured works of art that my 6 and 7 year old daughters  [ Read More ]

I was just logged into our Apple Service portal and saw a link for “Fourth Quarter Excellence Awards”, so I clicked on it out of curiosity.  It was a post congratulating the top 5% of all Apple Authorized Service Providers in the US and Canada for earning the “Commitment to  [ Read More ]

NOTE TO READER: If you don’t know what a plist is, you may want to skip this post. So I was frustrated with my iCal reminders one day, and I thought I would edit the preference file (.plist) to get the exact reminder BY DEFAULT that I wanted. When I  [ Read More ]