Category: 759: iOS Update Problems, Use Apple Remote to Sleep Your Mac, iMac as Monitor, What is VRAM?

One of the hardest differences in computers to explain is the video cards. A lot of companies will expound the virtues of x, y, or z video card as a selling point for higher-end computers. In reality, this part is not really ever going to be a concern to most average users. However, I often…

I’ve been very happy with my aluminum 23-inch Apple Cinema Display for the past four years. The image quality is excellent, and, while it takes some time to warm up in the morning, my only real complaint is that it’s just too small. We receive computers damaged in transit from time to time, and in…

“Jon Spaulding”:http://www.smalldog.com/jon discovered a neat trick on Friday while diagnosing an iMac without infrared reception. If you press and hold the play button on your Apple remote within range of your infrared-capable Mac, you can put your computer to sleep with your remote. This is particularly useful if you are about to fall asleep and…

Whenever Apple releases a new version of iOS for their iPod, iPhone, and iPad, everyone flocks to their computers to grab the latest and greatest. Most of the time everything goes fine and you can enjoy the new features, but occasionally something goes wrong and a cryptic error dialog pops up, leaving you frustrated and…

Happy Tuesday, We had another storm roll through the region yesterday, leaving snow measuring a couple of inches to about a foot in the higher elevations. At this point every year, I’m just ready for spring to arrive, so, while not entirely unexpected, the storm was most definitely a drag. Sunday was so beautiful -…