Category: 757: AirPort Firmware Downgrades, Apple Processors Power iDevices, Practice Safe Browsing, Spaces and Jiggly Icons

Di asks, “I’d love a rambling about Spaces, is it possible to have multiple desktops for one app?” Well Di, Spaces is an aspect of the Mac OS that enables you to have multiple desktops for organizational purposes. We had a technician here who was a multi-monitor addict and had a hard time adjusting to…

There are many terms that are synonymous with Mac such as “ease of use”, “it just works” and “right out of the box.” “Virus” is not one of the terms that you would think of with an Apple computer. Viruses have not been very common in the Mac world, but they have existed from time…

This past week, Apple introduced iPad 2, and it’s twice as fast with 9 times the graphics processing capabilities while maintaining 10 hours of battery life. If you look at the iPad’s tech specs page, you’ll notice that it’s powered by a 1GHz dual-core Apple A5 custom-designed, high-performance, low-power system-on-a-chip. This is an upgrade from…

Apple releases firmware updates for its devices now and again, but it seems that AirPort and Time Capsules see the most updating. Perhaps that’s because computers usually see only one update during their lives while AirPort products tend to last longer than computers. Firmware is low-level “software” that generally lives in some sort of flash…

Happy Tuesday, We woke up yesterday to a somewhat unexpected dumping of snow. While this Nor’easter was predicted, the snowfall amounts we saw and continue dealing with were much greater than the forecast called for. After a rainy weekend and lots of snow melt, my first-floor windows facing into the wind are covered by the…