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Amsys System Admins Conference

We are delighted to announce this years Macintosh System Administrators Conference. The event aims to bring together technical support professionals from Apple and cross platform environments to share news and views and discuss everyone’s favourite technology! The Macintosh System Administrators Conference will

Lion Tip 8 Local Backups in Lion’s Time Machine

One of the most popular features of OS X has been Apple’s built in Time Machine software.  This innovative software easily allowed users to make complete backups of their operating system in case of hard drive failure or if they

Mac OS X lion – Tip no 7 – Spotlight New Feature

You can now use Quick View in Spotlight search results, including documents, web pages, contacts, emails and media files and can also expand word definitions from Dictionary. This will allow you to preview you documents and videos before you open

Quickly add a Gmail/MobileMe account to Mail/iCal/iChat

By Richard Mallion One of the nice features of Lion is that we have a nice new system preference pane “Mail, Contacts & Calendars” to easily add new email accounts to Mac OS X. Safari has has a feature which

Apple Remote Desktop 3.3: Installing in OS X Lion

For those who purchased Apple Remote Desktop the old fashioned way , on CD, may find that the installer will not let you install the software on a Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) computer. It reports that Mac OS X

Chrome gets native full screen support for Lion

By Richard Mallion   Google’s Chrome browser has been updated to support two native OS X Lion features; full screen support and overlay scrollbars. To get the update, go the Chrome menu and pull down to “About Google Chrome” and then select

Enable AirDrop Over Ethernet & Unsupported Macs Running OS X 10.7

By Richard Mallion AirDrop is my favourite feature is Lion.  It allows you to easily send and receive files wirelessly over a network just by dragging and dropping. It’s a great addition to Lion, but it’s not supported on all Macs