Category: 679: Flash Security Notice, Back Up That Phone, Repair of the Week, Quick Snow Leopard Tips

Now and again, Apple’s technical specifications state a maximum amount of RAM that’s not actually correct. It was the case with the iMac G4, and believe it or not, it’s the case with some MacBooks and MacBook Pros. Any 2.2GHz or faster MacBook Pro (except the 2.33GHz models), and any MacBook made in November 2007…

While Snow Leopard doesn’t bring any revolutionary “visible” features, there are dozens of little improvements to the interface. Here are four of my favorites so far. # *The AirPort menu now lists not only the available networks, but the signal strength of each.* With this at-a-glance view, it’s clear which network is best to hop…

While most machines that come through our shop are pretty straight-forward to diagnose and repair, there is always room for surprises. We had one such surprise last week with a Macbook Pro that was brought in for two distinct reasons: the hard drive wasn’t recognized and the machine would not boot from CD. While that…

Chances are, if you have your iTunes preferences set up to sync automatically with your iPhone/iPod touch, you might think it’s doing a full backup beforehand every time. Unfortunately, “contrary to popular belief,”:http://forums.mactalk.com.au/39/66595-iphone-os-3-0-backup-takes-longer-time.html this may not be the case. *The Incident* As usual, I learned this the hard way earlier this week. My main computer…

If you’ve upgraded to Snow Leopard, please note this important message from Adobe: bq. The initial release of Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) includes an earlier version of Adobe Flash Player than what is available from Adobe.com. We recommend all users update to the latest, most secure version of Flash Player (10.0.32.18) — which…

Happy Tuesday, Around this time of year, Art’s iChat status message reminds us that the days are getting shorter, and that he can’t wait for snow. For the first month or so he displayed it, I didn’t really mind because the days didn’t really seem that much shorter. I realized last night at 7:30 that…