Category: 696: Sweating The Small Stuff, Ten Tips for Unexpected Mac Slowdowns, Tip of the Week: Cold Weather Care

During the colder months it’s important keep in mind that cold objects entering a warm, moist environment (like your home or workplace) will become damp with condensation. As liquid exposure of any type can void your warranty and result in costly repair, and as Apple now installs liquid exposure indicators inside each of its products,…

A friend recently sent me an email, questioning why his MacBook Pro with 4GB of RAM was “getting slower and slower, with an increasing frequency of the appearance of the SRWOD (spinny rainbow wheel of death).” This is something I occasionally hear about, but haven’t experienced (except for Safari randomly bogging down for several seconds).…

Two weeks ago, one of our long-term customers returned a late 2008 Xserve to us stating it was not recognizing PCI cards in either slot. I jumped at the chance to take a look at it since we don’t see many broken Xserves coming back in. Xserves are traditionally easy machines to work on. Many…

Happy Tuesday, Much of the state is digging out following record-breaking snowfall over the weekend (33″!). I didn’t even realize we were in the midst of a major weather event until I saw friends’ Facebook posts; only a few measly inches fell here in the Mad River Valley! I’m heading to Burlington tomorrow, where Katie…