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How to get your scroll bars back, permanently

I have spoken to a few people recently, who have called the Amsys Helpdesk, that find the default feature in 10.7 and 10.8 which removes the scrolling bars in different windows, such as Mail and Safari, a bit frustrating. However,

How to arrange your Applications folder by category

OS X Lion introduced a few nice updates to the OS X Finder, one of which is improved sorting. I’d like to tell you all about one example which I find rather handy. I am often rummaging through my Applications

How to quickly eject single or multiple partitions in OS X

OS X requires you to manually eject all drives before disconnecting them. This can be a little irritating if you have a connected hard drive which has multiple partitions and you wish to either unmount just one partition, or all

How to access additional Menu Bar items

Instead of hunting round each System Preference pane separately to see what can be added to the main menu bar, there is a magic folder nested within your System folder that contains a collection of Menu Bar items. Some of

How to use Time Machine 10.8 podcast

Hello and welcome to this Amsys Training Podcast about time machine. My name’s Hugo and today I will be taking you through the 1st episode of a series of 3 about Time Machine in 10.8. In this podcast we will

A Short Guide on How to Install Mountain Lion

With Apple’s Mountain Lion being released today, we thought it would be a good idea to write a short blog on best practices with regards to installing Mountain Lion. This is not a complete guide but, more of a installation

A Short Guide on How to Install Mountain Lion

With Apple’s Mountain Lion being released today, we thought it would be a good idea to write a short blog on best practices with regards to installing Mountain Lion. This is not a complete guide but, more of a installation

How to View Contents of a Zip File Without Expanding

You may already be aware that there are a number of QuickLook™ plugins to do this but if you have used any of them you will have noticed that they are slow to produce a list of the contents. My

How to Repair a MacBook Air: The Tools You Need

This next post in the “How to Repair a Mac” series, will take a look at the tools required for Apple Certified Technicians to repair the Apple MacBook Air range. Most of these tools are available from hardware/DIY Stores, however