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The multi-touch trackpad’s on your MacBook should have a substantial click sound to it, and require a notable press to activate. Granted many people will have differing touches, but in general you should be able to swipe around on your trackpad without activating the button on it. If this is not the case and your … Read more
One long-standing and useful feature in macOS is its ability to boot from practically any mountable partition, including external drives. This allows for quick ways to test an installation, isolate different uses of your Mac to separate boot drives, troubleshoot aspects of your Mac’s hardware and internal storage, and create bootable backups of your Mac’s … Read more
Introduced: July 21, 1999Terminated: September 13, 2000 Logic BoardProcessor: PowerPC 750 (G3)Processor Speed: 300 MHzPMMU: IntegratedFPU: IntegratedBus Speed: 66 MHzData Path: 64-bitROM Size: 1 MBLevel 1 Cache: 64KLevel 2 Cache: 512KExpansion Slots: noneBattery: 45 Wh Lithium Ion MemoryRAM Type: SO-DIMMRAM Slots: 1Min – Max RAM: 32 or 64 MB – 288 or 320 MBMinimum RAM Speed: 10 nsInstall in groups of: 1RAM Sizes: 32, 64, 128, 256 MBOnboard RAM: 32 or 64 MB … Read more
This is the famous Atari 2600. It was the game console that started the home video game industry in the late 1970s. Most people my age would recognize the phrase, “Have you played Atari today?” from Atari’s commercials in the early 1980s. Back in those days, Atari was the most popular video game console. In … Read more
We picked up this nice Apple IIc – ROM Version ‘0’ in early 2011 for $50. It is in great shape and shows only slight yellowing. ROM Version ‘0’ was the first big upgrade to the original Apple IIc – ROM Version ‘255’, released a year earlier. The biggest improvement in this version over the … Read more
Quite often corporate networks will have restrictions that prevent you from using them with your personal system. Sometimes, only systems that have been imaged by an IT department are allowed on a domain, with others being restricted via MAC address filtering (among other methods) from even connecting. However, you may find yourself having worked on … Read more
If you haven’t yet used Smart Folders in macOS, then you may be missing out on a critical time-saving feature of the macOS Finder. Smart Folders are essentially canned searches, where you can save custom search queries and quickly restore them. They are relatively simple concept, so the real question of how to use smart … Read more
Apple introduced the Macintosh LC on October 15, 1990. It was one of the low cost trio of Macs released on the same day that also included the Macintosh IIsi and Macintosh Classic. LC stands for “low-cost color”. Apple realized that its high cost strategy* of the 1980s resulted in an unacceptable substantial loss of … Read more
Apple introduced the Apple IIc in April 1984. The IIc was replaced by the Apple IIc Plus in September 1988. The IIc can best be described as a “luggable” version of the Apple IIe. The IIc is compact and has no expansion slots but comes with most anything anyone really needed to put in any … Read more
Whenever you upgrade macOS, you always chance an application or two not working with the new software changes. Hopefully problems are kept at a minimum, or are insignificant enough to not require any attention; however, there may be times when apps crash, hang, or show other odd behavior that directly impedes your ability to use … Read more