Category: 665: Entertainment In A Tiny Box, Tip/Repair of the Week, Reader Feedback

“In your newest Tech Tails (another marvelous issue!), there’s an article about using F11 to reveal the desktop in all its beauty and F9 to show all the open windows. While this works fine on a desktop Mac, there’s another key to press if you’re using a laptop–as the primary function of the, er, function…

Mail on my MacBook Pro quit unexpectedly late last week, and when I restarted the program none of my mail or folders were present. It was the middle of a work day, and my Time Machine backup is at home (a USB hard drive connected to my AirPort Extreme) so I could not access last…

If you’ve ever called Small Dog or Apple for technical support because your Mac wouldn’t boot, odds are it was suggested that you attempt a reinstallation of your operating system from the disks that came with your computer. The problem here is that if the reinstallation fails for whatever reason, there is no apparent way…

After my article last week I received a reply from a faithful reader asking for more information on my Mac mini setup at home: _”I read with interest your piece on using your mac mini as a kind of server, along with Dyndns to deal with back to my mac issues. While I am interested…

Happy Tuesday, It’s always great meeting up with old friends. I went down to Boston with Tony Amenta over the weekend and met up with Ed Shepard and several high school friends at Fenway Park for Phish’s summer tour opener. Phish is a band started at UVM in the early 1980s that somehow exploded into…