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How to disable Gatekeeper in OSX Sierra

During the June WWDC conference during a “What’s New in Security” session it was made known that Apple were changing the default options of Gatekeeper for macOS Sierra. This can cause some troubles installing programs so I’m writing this blog

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,

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

5 useful OS X timesaving tips

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5 useful OS X timesaving tips

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How to toggle "Do Not Disturb" for Notification Center

I have grown to like the Notification Center feature of OS X Mountain Lion. However, there are times when I am teaching and I want to disable Notifications temporarily. I might be demoing something on the projector at the time

Mountain Lion text bug causes apps to crash

By Richard Mallion A text entry bug has been discovered in Mountain Lion which causes most apps to crash. The bug is this: If you open an app that supports text entry, for instance TextEdit, and type in: The app

Set default save to local rather than iCloud in 10.8

For those of us that have upgraded to 10.8 Mountain Lion and use Apple apps like Pages and Keynote you may have noticed that the default save location is always iCloud.   I tend to want to save to my

Add more days to your week

We all know that there are never enough hours in the day. So how about adding more days to the week? In the Mountain Lion Calendar App you can change the number of days in the week. Use the following

Bring displays menubar back to Mountain Lion

In 10.8 the Displays menubar item was replaced with an AirPlay one, and I’ve missed the original one especially when we are presenting during our training courses. So, currently the only way to get around it seems to be going