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Mac-Forums Brief List Subscription Contest Rules
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Sign up for the Mac-Forums Brief emails
Interested in great deals on Apple products? Our Mac-Forums Brief is a weekly email we send to our subscribers curating
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Sign up for our Brief and be entered to win a $25 iTunes gift card!
Our Mac-Forums Brief is sent out each Wednesday and is our way of keeping you up to date with the
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Learning the Command Line – Shell Scripts
Terminal commands are great but what if you want to have something done every time you login? What if you
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These Permissions Are Not The Repairs You’re Looking For – A Critical Look at Permissions in OS X
So, your Mac is acting up. Indeed, a Mac is no more impervious to Murphy’s Law than a non-Mac PC
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Confessions of a Recovering Gear-aholic
Hi everybody, I’m Mike and I like to buy stuff . . . lots of stuff. I have all the
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Mac-Forums Investigates MacKeeper
Update (July 27, 2013): Grammar/spelling errors corrected and a short section about Mac-Forums’ relationship to the product was added. Introduction
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Mac-Forums Looks at the Other…Other Mobile Platform
Introduction There’s no secret when it comes to my tendency to try the esoteric operating platforms. Why? The simple answer
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Advanced – Scripting a Daily Wallpaper
If you’re anything like me, you get bored of your desktop wallpaper easily. Sure, you could have your wallpaper rotate
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A Look at Word Processing for the iPad: Pages and Word
I write…a lot. As a graduate student, it is my “trade,” that activity that occupies the majority of my time
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Clamshell Mode Performance Issues: A Myth?
Background A while back, I remember hearing a theory floating around that running a Mac in clamshell mode forced OS
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iOS and The State of Innovation
Quite a few people have been commenting on an ostensible lack of innovation on the part of Apple when it
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The Mysterious File:/// Bug
Recently, there has been a rather silent but important story floating around about an odd bug built into Cocoa (OS
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VEHO’s Muvi X-Lapse…thing.
I’m going to get the really boring and technical stuff out of the way first, so that I have room
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OS X Lion Server Part 01 – What Type of Server R2
Preamble This is a guide to OS X Lion and Mountain Lion Server. There are a few differences but they are
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Review: CoolerMaster Gear
Jas Pro – Stretch Using a laptop flat on your desk isn’t the best for your posture, unless you have
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Back It Up Part 2
In part one of this series, I discussed what files to backup and what types of backups were possible. Whether you
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IMAP Email and Notifications: How-To
Introduction In this article we’ll look at how you can use Mountain Lion’s notification system to notify you of unread
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OS X Mountain Lion: The Mac-Forums Guide
Contents Preamble Upgrading through the Up-to-Date Program Prepping for the Upgrade How to Create Your Own OS X Mountain Lion
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While the MF ML Guide is Under Construction…
As we continue our work on the official Mac-Forums Mountain Lion guide, we provide the following set of links to
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OSX Lion Server Part 02 – Getting the Network Right
Here we’ll cover all the network configuration details that you’ll need to have in place to make sure the installation
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Back It Up Part 1
No matter how reliable your Mac has been, you need a plan for backing up your data. At some point
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Putting Your Apps on a Diet
Given that hard drive size is rarely a concern anymore, developers seem to make an assumption that space is no
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More Spotlight Tips
Stretch’s introduction to Spotlight demonstrated why so many people find Spotlight useful. I’ve used it for some basic searches but
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