Category: 753: Hard Drive REP Ends, Hidden Customization, Keeping Up with the Jobs’

There are myriad customization options in Mac OS X–some are in plain sight in System Preferences and elsewhere, while others involve manual editing of plist (property list) files or tricking the system into thinking one file is actually another. One of the most powerful interface tweaks you can make is to the menu bar, and…

Quick–without looking at “About this Mac”–what version of MacOS X are you running?A lot of people have no idea what they have installed, or more importantly, they don’t know that the base operating system can be upgraded. Unfortunately, they often don’t find out until it’s too late. A brief recent history of Mac OS X:…

Over the years “we’ve written a lot about Apple’s repair extension programs (REPs)”:http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=%22repair+extension+program%22+site:blog.smalldog.com&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8. When a particular part failure becomes statistically relevant, Apple will own up to that failure and cover the cost of repair or replacement of that part, generally for three years from the computer’s purchase date regardless of warranty status. It became clear…

Happy Tuesday, This week it’s Ben writing for Matt while he’s away. Burlington got hit with back-to-back snowstorms this past week, which rivaled those of February ’07. While the snow put a damper on driving, it didn’t stop residents of the Queen City from making the most of it. Cross country skiers slid along sidewalks,…