Category: 730: Tip of the Week: Create Font Reports, Apple Security Update, Repair of the Week: Kernel Panicking Mac Pro

This Friday, our Famous Garage Sale commences for the second time this year. What did you do to deserve two in one year? Well, let’s just say that we have been lucky enough to see a large amount of products go through our warehouse, we’re on top of organization, and hey, we thought it would…

The Mac Pro has always been a beast of a computer, and even the first-generation examples remain so. Their reliability is second-to-none amongst the Apple product line, but with some approaching three years old, we are beginning to see more failures. This week’s repair is on an 8-core 3.0 GHz unit outfitted with a fibre…

Apple released an important security update for *Mac OS 10.5* and *10.6* users. This security update, dubbed 2010-005, carries a host of important patches as well as a series of preemptive bug fixes. Among the many items addressed in the update is a revision to Apple Type Services or ATS. Similar to the recent PDF…

A new feature in Leopard’s Font Book is the ability to print out three different reports about all your fonts. They’re very useful for everyone from professional designers to the casual user creating newsletters in Pages. First, of course, launch Font Book. It’s in your Applications folder. Then, choose the fonts you want to report…

Happy Tuesday, Apple is expected to announce some new or updated products tomorrow at its now-traditional September event in San Francisco. It’s amazing that the first iPod was introduced over eight years ago. Revolutionary in a time of 128 megabyte flash-based players, the first iPod’s 5 gigabyte hard drive was a huge leap forward. By…