Category: 894: Mavericks Installation Options, Hands On Lesson From A Customer Interaction, Changing Default Time Machine Backups

Steer clear of the boring white cable and add some color to the mix! Belkin’s MIXIT Lightning cables come in some great colors for charging or syncing your device. And for a limited time when you purchase one of these in the 4ft length, you’ll get a 6in little guy bundled for the price of…

By default, Time Machine backs up your system every hour if you leave your backup drive plugged in. If you are creating a lot of new data, this is a great system as it allows you to be able to have a consistent backup of all your information. However, If you don’t need to have…

The other day, a customer drove over an hour to visit me in Waitsfield and to show me that her computer was being a jerk: Mail, TextEdit, Preview, and some other native applications were crashing before com.apple.windowserver could even load. She had just upgraded to Mavericks and restored data from an older Time Machine backup.…

If you’d like to install Mavericks without going the upgrade route, there is an option. The “Install OS X Mavericks.app” installer can be turned into a USB thumb drive installer by any computer running 10.6.8 through 10.9. Early on, there were Terminal commands that could be used to create this disk, but now the disk…

Happy Holidays! Thanksgiving is this Thursday, as well as the start of Hanukkah, and then the holiday season will be in full swing toward Christmas and the new year. We made a conscious decision to keep our stores closed on Thanksgiving Day — unlike many larger chains — because we feel that it’s important for…