News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
Backing up is one of those things you should never stop thinking about. Although I recently covered backup basics here on the AMW site, I thought it worthwhile delving a bit deeper into aspects of backups which don't seem to be thought about very much.
Sean McNamara | Nov 5, 2008
One problem with the desktop metaphor of modern operating systems is that they can become as cluttered as a real desktop - and sorting through an array of overlapping windows can be as inefficient as just not having them (or their applications) open in the first place. But help is at hand in the form of Spaces, Apple's take on virtual desktops, which was introduced with Mac OS X v10.5 (Leopard).
Sean McNamara | Oct 9, 2008
As computer bandwidth allowances are increasingly swamped by large program and operating system updates, users have to become more savvy about how they manage the update process. Those users with huge bandwidth caps and only one or two computers on their network can feel smug that they're relatively unaffected by such concerns — for the rest of us, it's time to update our update procedures.
Sean McNamara | Sep 11, 2008
An ongoing topic of discussion for Mac users is the ever-increasing size of updates, both for the Mac OS itself and for third party applications like Microsoft Office and Adobe Creative Suite. There are a few snares for the unwary directly related to updates' sizes, however, which are worth considering to make updates as painless an experience as possible.
Sean McNamara | Aug 14, 2008
For both incoming and outgoing mail we need to know the mail server, whether the connection is established via Secure Sockets Layer (SSL, a form of connection encryption) and the port the connection is established over. For incoming mail, you'll always need the type of account (POP or IMAP) and the username and password (and occasionally the authentication method) — for outgoing mail, you need to know whether you need to authenticate with a username and password. There are numerous combinations of the options I've just listed, which can make troubleshooting a problem seem even more daunting.
Sean McNamara | Jul 17, 2008
E-mail has become such a staple of our online lives that it's hard to imagine how we got by without it. However, it's not a perfect system, and there are many things which can go wrong at all stages of delivery. Here is look at some of the most common causes of e-mail delivery problems and what can and can't be done about them. Next time I'll consider some e-mail configuration problems that can lead to errors.
Sean McNamara | Jun 19, 2008
Myvu has announced that its Crystal video goggles now work with the iPhone. The Crystal glasses require a new cable which costs $US24.95.
