Author: Mike Moffit
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Life Expectancy
It is well known that computers have a life expectancy. When I refer to the life expectancy of a computer I’m not referring to how long it will work, I’m referring to how long you can keep it up to date with supported software and get it serviced. Many machines will work for years past…
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Trade in and Trade up!
Is your old Mac starting to get a case of the winter blues? Is it just not as fast as it was four years ago when you bought it? Did you think you would dabble only a little in video editing with iMovie when you got your Mac a few years ago but now find…
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App Review: Colin McRae Rally
When I was a kid, my favorite video games were always flight simulators and racing simulators. I never really liked games where you were controlling a character. I guess I thought it was inherently unrealistic. At least with racing and flight simulators they were based off real-life models and physics. In the mid 2000s one…
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Terminal Tidbits: say command
Apple’s built in text-to-speech can be a useful tool, or just a lot of fun for pranks. This can be triggered via Terminal. When you go and open Terminal (found in the Applications > Utilities folder) you get a blank screen with a blinking cursor. Type *say “what you want you Mac to say”* and…
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Life Expectancy
It is well known that computer have a life expectancy. When I refer to the life expectancy of a computer I’m not referring to how long it will work, I’m referring to how long you can keep it up to date with supported software and get it serviced. Many machines will work for years past…
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Locate with the Terminal
Unlike the Terminal *find* command, *locate* provides indexed search results which is faster than find. Before using locate, you must build a database of system files, which will allow you to search by using the locate command. To build the database type the following command: *sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.locate.plist* After the database is built…
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_Hello Fellow Technophiles,_ Sometimes it seems like new operating systems appear more and more frequently. In reality, Apple has been on a pretty regular schedule of releasing a new OS once per year. Every time that they do, I get the same set of questions: * Should I update my machine? * Will my software/hardware…
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iPhone 6s: First Impressions from a Smartphone Holdout
Back in January of 2015, I decided that I was going to shift up both my cell phone and my cell phone plan. Prior to that I had been using my sister’s old flip phone. I had become jaded after my experience with my HTC Incredible that I bought after graduating college in 2010. It…
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iPhone Photo Management
iPhones are pretty awesome cameras and they are pretty awesome displays for photos as well. They’re actually such awesome cameras that almost everyone fills them up with pictures, and then you’re out of space and can’t take any more photos. To see what’s taking up space on your iPhone, you can navigate to a breakdown…