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OS X El Capitan: Disk Utility and System Permission Repairs

With OS X El Capitan, comes a complete redesign of Disk Utility, which will most likely bring with it, the usual level of moans, and groans when anything we often use changes. The new layout is in essence no different

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4 "Mac in the enterprise" deployment techniques

4 Mac In The Enterprise Deployment Techniques There are a number of ways you can deploy Mac OS X.  The tools and techniques used have evolved rapidly over the past few years.  In this blog post I will summarize each

3 tips to improve the performance of your Mac

We all know that Macs offer fantastic performance and that the Mac OS is the most secure and efficient operating system out there, however there may come a time when you notice your Mac is running a little slowly, or

Time Machine 10.8 podcast – Recover Data

  Hi and welcome to the second part of our podcast on Time Machine. My Name is Pete. In this episode I am looking at recovery from a Time Machine backup, in the first part Hugo talked about backing up

How to Make the Recovery Partition Visible in Disk Utility

While teaching a 10.7 Support Essentials course today, one of the delegates asked if it was possible to make the recovery partition visible in Disk Utility in case of any corruption that may need to be repaired. If you are

Protect USB Memory Sticks or drives with a Password

By Richard Mallion One of the new features of Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) is the addition of a new volume format, Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted). This lets  you format a USB memory stick or drive so that its