January 17, 2011 - Hammondsport Mac Users Group ATTENDING: Tom B, Bob S, Mike S, Jerry L and Nancy C. TOPIC: Troubleshooting Your Mac The group had a few laughs at a slideshow of real-life remedies called 'There, I fixed it.' Also Tom shared a personal horror story of tightening up a loose bolt on his old Ford Econoline engine cover, resulting in a cavalcade of unfortunate events ending with 'I wish I had left things well enough alone.'
Built-in Mac Remedies Mac Utilities -
found in the Utilities Folder (Finder Menu > Go > Utilities) Software Drive Genius - great disk-maintenance / repair utility recommended by Jerry ($99) - 10.5.3 or higher DiskWarrior - the one-trick pony that fixes hopeless hard drives ($99) Macaroni - installs in System Prefs - automatically performs routine maintenance ($10) Pacifist - enables you to re-install a specific pkg from an install disk - free 'indefinite' trial period ($20) AppDelete - shareware ($5) that thoroughly uninstalls an unwanted application and all its parts (203k) - an older free version 1.1.1 is available here AppFresh - freeware that quickly scans your computer for update status of all applications, both Apple and 3rd party - works on all OSX including Snow Leopard. PhotoInfo - freeware download (188k) - OS10.4 to 10.5 PPC/Intel - change photo files with wrong EXIF data (dates, names) Web Resources Apple
Discussions - just pick your topic of interest - then search
that forum In the News Stuxnet virus (11-26-2010) - is this for real or just a masterful psych-out? NYT on Stuxnet (1-16-2011) - exposes Israeli and US secret work against terrorists Teleportation
Machine - the Quantum paddle? Parallel
universes? Beam me up, Scotty. Vintage Mac Other Things Learned at Our Meeting (1) It is possible to open a bottle of wine with a shoe, according to three people at our meeting who attested to having done this. Read how. (2) Kodachrome film can be processed at home using Black and White film developer. Of course, the images will be black and white. Since there is no longer any commercial processing of Kodachrome, this might be the last resort. (3) Bob recommended watching David Pogue in the NOVA special 'Making Stuff' starting 1/19/2011 at 9pm EST. (4) Jerry recommended Adblock Plus for your Mac's Firefox browser to stop annoying pop-up and Flash ads - read more.
Hammondsport Mac Users Group - Hammondsport, NY 14840 - www.hportmug.com
|