by Aaron Crabtree | Jun 28, 2012 | Apple, Blog, iPhone
I’m embarrassed to admit this, but for over year after switching to the iPhone I missed those silly little icons from my older phones. But it turns out that the iPhone had them, but they have to be enabled. Here are the instructions: Go to Settings Go to General...
by Aaron Crabtree | Jun 13, 2012 | Apple, Blog, iPad
The iPad is a great device. I often have people ask me if they should buy an iPad instead of a laptop. I guess that depends on what you want to do with the iPad but it can’t replace a laptop for me. I started thinking about what it would take to make the iPad...
by Aaron Crabtree | May 27, 2012 | Apple, Battery Life, Blog, iPhone, Technology
As of June, 2012 I have owned an iPhone 4 for 18 months. In the past month the battery life has dramatically shortened. A full charge in the morning is down to 40% or less by 5 PM. I tried all of the normal tricks to improve battery life but it was obvious that the...
by Aaron Crabtree | Mar 9, 2012 | Apple, Blog, Data backup, MacOS, PC Hardware
If you want to connect a hard drive to your Apple Airport Extreme router, you need to format it using the the GUID Partition Table (GPT) and format the partition as Apple Filing System (AFS) journeled. The problem is that Disk Utility formats external drives as Master...
by Aaron Crabtree | Mar 4, 2012 | Apple, Blog, Data backup, MacOS, PC Hardware, Technology
Oh Apple, so many of us trust your well thought-out products and don’t complain when you remove features. After all, if you remove it, then we must not need it! Apple, if you ever read this post, please consider adding your Disk First Aid utility to the Airport...
by Aaron Crabtree | Aug 6, 2011 | Apple, Blog, MacOS, PC Hardware
The official way to get MacOS 10.7 Lion is to download it from the App Store or buy a computer with it preinstalled. What if I want to make a bootable DVD? Here’s what you do: Download the installer (almost four gig!) from the App Store. Once finished,...
