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Sometimes we need to separate our hard drive into independent chunks of space and we call this partitioning. This is most often not needed, but if you want to install another operating system on your computer you will find this to be needed or to protect a system from failure. (Please note that this does not protect you from hardware failures)   [...]

If you aren’t familiar with changing the screensaver on your Mac, here are some simple steps to keep some variety before your eyes. Activate already installed Screen Savers 1. Under the apple icon on your menu bar, choose System Preferences. 2. Under the ‘Personal’ heading, click on the ‘Desktop & Screen Saver’ button. Once you [...]

For most of us we unknowingly decompress archives all the time. That’s because Apple built it into the Mac OSX operating system and all it takes is a double click (or sometimes automatically). However sometimes you run into a situation where that file you downloaded just won’t decompress. Hopefully this how-to will help.

For those of us who have converted from PCs to Macs, the Control+Alt+Delete option still remains foremost in our minds as the ultimate solution to the frozen computer. On a Mac however, if the swirling beach ball of waiting appears on your screen, you wonder if those three magic buttons will work the same magic. [...]

I am of the personal opinion that if you are using MS Office for Mac then you aren’t really a true “Mac user”. Ok, so I got that out of my system Pages (Apples’s word processing application) has more than enough functionality to replace Word for 99% of what most users are using it for. [...]