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How to use Calendar to view significant dates in history

Fancy knowing what’s happened today in history but have no internet connection? Or just REALLY bored at work and fancy reading some interesting facts?! Well don’t you worry, your Mac OS X system has a built-in calendar history of events

How to Change Location of Saved Screenshots Part 2

My colleague Anton recently blogged about using Onyx to change the location of Screenshots to prevent your desktop becoming cluttered with endless png’s. You can also do this by doing a quick Terminal command then you can choose a more

Slaying Daemons!

Typical story, my MacBook has become progressively slower since it was last re-installed over 18 months ago.  Having run disk permissions repair, disk warrior and all the other “cleaning” tools, there was very little improvement. After giving it some thought

Setting iTunes to Disable Automatic iOS Device Backups

We have just finished an iPad deployment project for one of our customers that had a specific requirement. The 90 iPads needed to be restored to a predefined state, once every two weeks, for the foreseeable future. To achieve this,

Restoring the Library Folder in Lion

By Richard Mallion In Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion), the Library folder in your home folder is now hidden. There are a couple of ways gain access to it. To quickly browse your Library folder, open a Finder window and