Category: 777: ROTW: AirPort Express and the Internet, Seagate Replacement Program, How to Lift Your MacBook

If you recently upgraded to 10.6.8, are running Parallels 6, and have noticed general slowness, don’t fret. This is a known issue and can be easily fixed. Many of the symptoms include constant slowness (with or without “beach-balling”) and a problematic dock. Some proactive users who check Activity Monitor will notice a 100% CPU usage…

Lion brings a slew of new features and interface changes. Some drive me mad: reversed (“natural”) scrolling–thankfully, that can be disabled. But some are great, like the ability to encrypt your Time Machine back-up. I don’t have a real need for serious data security measures, but if you back up wirelessly, your back-up is vulnerable…

The vast majority of insert/eject problems on Apple laptops are related to how users pick up their machines. It sounds ridiculous, and some people even take offense when I offer a tutorial on how to handle their machines, but if you squash the optical drive opening, that is considered damage and is not covered by…

Apple announced late last week a program to replace a “very small number of Seagate 1TB hard drives used in 21.5-inch and 27-inch iMac systems” sold between May and July 2011. If you did not buy your iMac in this time frame, or have an older iMac with 1TB hard drive, you are not affected…

I’ve had some calls over the past few days from people who recently had to replace their AirPort Express due to passing storms. In each case, they configured their new base station through AirPort Utility, and the unit had a green status light, but none of their systems could connect to the Internet. When they…

Happy Tuesday, After a seemingly endless heat wave, Saturday night brought cool breezes and temperatures in the high sixties. It was over 100 degrees Friday in much of Vermont, and even hotter in my warehouse office without air conditioning. Needless to say, the Mad River is a resource I am very thankful for. Many Small…