Recent content by rubaiyat

Preview comes with your Mac. Look under the Tools menu and you should see all you want.

The fatter the user, the thinner the gadget has to be. Apple is just restoring a natural balance, or the Earth will tilt over and we'll all slide off!

Just get yourself a German girlfriend.

May as well have been! :(

Have you installed/updated VLC? The two go together.

I've noticed the beachball on wake, as well as just how much longer Yosemite takes to shut down. Almost as bad as Windows now.

Yep! I'm right up there with you. It's due to Apple having to pretend they've made another Great Leap Forward every year. Mainly by moving the furniture around and constantly changing the curtains. Trying to detail just how many extra steps everything takes and just how many of those steps are...

iWork '13 has just been updated Apple has issued the first update to its unpopular update to the iWork suite for Maverick. Users have been flooding Apple's Pages forums with complaints about the over 90 features that were removed from Pages alone. Simultaneously Apple removed ALL the...

Cool!

I have just RIPed my entire (>400) DVD collection to Hard Drive. The old MacTheRipper/Handbrake workflow worked in its day. Not very reliably but it muddled through, sometimes. My bulletproof and very efficient workflow is to now RIP with MDRP3 (Mac DVDRipper Pro) using Insert/RIP/Eject. I...

Back up immediately. If you get the chance do 2 back-ups. 1. With Carbon Copier (or Time Machine) to make an image of the installation including your system. Hang on to this for a few months until you are certain there is nothing you are missing. 2. A second as a straight copy of all your data...

Decision process: Is Steve, Is good!

Boot up off your Startup DVD holding down the 'd' key (for diagnostics). Run the tests and report the results to Apple. I too had problems with SL and an iMac, as have my sons. I find it hard to believe when Apple told me SL dramatically cut their support calls. My experience suggests it has...

Whilst there are some features in OSX that are improvements there is a wide swathe of unnecessary complexity and bewildering obscurity. For all its tendency to bomb occasionally the Classic Mac OS was more transparent and logical. OSX particularly suffers from hidden interfaces and a...

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