Category: 938: Keychain Password; A Guide to Ports; A Useful Analogy

Python Cords prevent your Mac and PC chargers from breaking, while also keeping things organized. Your laptop cord is constantly under stress as it travels between your office, classroom, favorite coffee shop, and home. The most common stress point is where the soft rubber cord attaches to the hard plastic shell of the power supply.…

Computer terms can be very confusing. The power of different computers are generally measured by the speed and capacity of three components: the hard drive, the RAM, and the CPU. Many of us have heard these terms before, but far fewer know what these terms mean or how they affect the performance of the computer.…

If you haven’t noticed, there are a lot of ports to plug cords into on your laptop. Although that number is getting smaller and smaller these days with newer Mac models, many people have 3 or more port options when transferring data. * *MagSafe port:* Used for charging * *Ethernet port:* 1Gbps * *Firewire 800:*…

How many times have you logged in to your Mac and seen a pop-up that says “(this app) wants to use your ‘login’ keychain”? The keychain is Apple’s own password management system. It allows you to store passwords so the applications wanting to use them can. An application that uses the keychain a lot is…

_Hello Fellow Technophiles,_ We strive to bring you interesting and useful information once per fortnight here in Tech Tails. But we can never cover the breadth or depth of issues that can arise with all of the devices and software out there. That is where Small Dog Electronics’ Consulting Department comes in. Our Macintosh certified…