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How to bond or pair an Apple Remote

How to bond or pair an Apple Remote

Jul 14, 2010

Have you ever been in a room with multiple Apple computers, and one or more remotes. The experience can drive you insane as a single remote starts controlling several computers.

How to Renew your IP address on a Mac

How to Renew your IP address on a Mac

Jul 7, 2010

Have you ever had a problem with your Mac network and needed to release and renew your DHCP acquired IP address?

What is hidd? Why is it running?

What is hidd?  Why is it running?

Jun 29, 2010

Are you looking in you Macintosh OS X Activity Monitor?  Do you see a process called hidd?  What is it?  Why is it consuming cpu and memory? Human Interface Device Daemon The hidd service is the Human Interface Device Daemon.  In fact, the hidd service is required for your Mac to operate properly as it is responsible for the operation of any human input...

How to enable “tap to click” on the Mac

How to enable “tap to click” on the Mac

Jun 21, 2010

A frustration for new Mac OS X users is tap to click.  You can’t just tap the trackpad to click on an icon, you have to actually click the button.  Or do you? Actually, the truth is… enabling “tap to click” is very simple on the Mac.   To enable tap to click go to your system preferences and click on trackpad. The very first option...

How to create a Sparsebundle on OS X

How to create a Sparsebundle on OS X

Jun 15, 2010

A sparsebundle is a really nice feature under OS X that allows you to create a file to send your time machine backups to.  There’s a whole lot of good reasons to create one and we’re going to walk you through it! So what is a sparsebundle anyway?  A sparsebundle is a file on the Mac OSX filesytem for use with time machine. Let me ask a couple of...