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,...
by Aaron Crabtree | Jul 31, 2011 | Apple, Blog, MacOS, PC Hardware, Technology, Video
If you decide to upgrade to Lion, ProPresenter won’t work right away. I upgraded and ProPresenter crashed immediately. So I went to the Renewed Vision website and downloaded the latest version (4.2.5). This version would hang on boot up every time I tried to...
by Aaron Crabtree | Feb 3, 2011 | Apple, Blog, Data backup, MacOS, PC Hardware, Technology
Apple tends to fit many Macs with small-ish hard drives. Now to be fair the Mac apps also tend to be smaller than Windows equivalents so you may not need a bigger drive. But if you work with a lot of media (pictures, videos, music) you’ll run out of space...
by Aaron Crabtree | Sep 11, 2009 | Blog, Data backup, PC Hardware
I had a PC running at my house that was running a web server, ftp server and performing some other tasks so it was turned on 24 hours per day. It ran for about 3 years in this state. I finally decided to turn it off and after three days of being turned off, it...