OSX tip – How to make default paste option ‘Paste…
OSX tip - How to make default paste option 'Paste and Match Style' - from Mac OS X Hints (I used Sys Prefs route) hints.macworld.com/article.php?st…
Should I upgrade to OSX Yosemite? – useful pre-upg…
Should I upgrade to OSX Yosemite? - useful pre-upgrade info from LifeHacker #OSX #Yosemite lifehacker.com/should-i-upgra…
Wifi Tools in Mac OSX
Thanks to this article in TNW, I've found a couple of useful Wifi tools in Mac OSX - at least in my version, which is 10.9.2 To access the Wifi tools, press Alt key and then click on the Wifi icon in the menu. Extra information [...]
Update on Apple / Mountain Lion wifi issues
One of the Apple Support Communities pages I am subscribed to is all about the 'wifi dropping' issue people have had when updating to Mountain Lion. This has now reached its 14th page and new issues are added almost daily. I found that the wifi dropping/connection [...]
Apple’s Recommended Wi-fi Settings for iOS & OSX
The Apple eco-system - iOS devices and OSX systems - seems to have a few problems with wi-fi connections, especially in the time just after upgrades. I have experienced this myself a couple of times, as I documented here on my blog. Recently, I found [...]
Problem with iTunes 11 and Apple TV?
Apple TV 2nd Gen Here's a little tip for anyone who's experiencing problems watching movies via their Apple TV, having recently upgraded to iTunes 11. I had this issue last night and thought it might take a lot of messing around to come up [...]
Cross-Browser Testing – Turning off browser auto-updates
For effective cross-browser testing, it can be useful to have a variety of different versions of different browsers on different platforms. In general, its very awkward (or impossible) to have different versions of the same browser on the same machine. Therefore, a way around this is [...]
Sauce for Mac
Sauce Labs have recently released a free Mac App which allows you to use their online website testing platform via a desktop Mac App, rather than the usual method of via a browser. The Mac App can be downloaded for free via saucelabs.com/mac / or iTunes / [...]
Windows 8 Pro running on VirtualBox on iMac OSX 10.8.2 – Success!!!
As Windows 8 and IE10 have recently been released, I thought I'd better get myself a working Windows 8 system, asap. Will be very useful to be able to see how Windows 8 operates, plus also test IE10 websites as thats already either a requirement (or likely [...]
OSX Mountain Lion/wifi issue – finally a solution?
Update - 4 October 2012 - Solution finally found... Wifi has been working for over a week now - without a drop out - so I can say the wifi issue has been fixed - at least for my situation. Read below for full details, but [...]
Dropbox – the main advantages
A few people have asked me about Dropbox recently, as they're not sure why there's such a positive buzz about it. So I thought I'd list the main advantages I get out of using Dropbox and hopefully it may help a few people out. Main Advantages [...]
Mountain Lion/wifi issue… Ongoing saga continues…
This issue is still occurring even after having reported it to Apple support and being in contact with someone from Apple support. (I provided them a Wifi Diagnostics report after issue occurred and with wifi debug/diagnostics setup) The problem is strangely sporadic - some days it [...]
(Yet) Another attempt to fix wifi issue in OSX Mountain Lion… fail
As Apple haven't yet supplied a fix for this wifi issue in OSX Mountain Lion, I tried another suggestion from a user on Apple Support Forums. The main gist of this is to clear out all the networking plists from your /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/ directory. Then restart Mac and [...]
Hopes of Mountain Lion wifi fix in OSX 10.8.1 update?
Apple has released the OSX 10.8.1 update to Mountain Lion. It was hoped this would feature a fix to the wifi issue being suffered by lots of Mountain Lion users. However, a check through the issues list and there was no mention of a wifi fix. [...]
Another potential fix to wifi issue on OSX Mountain Lion
Update 14 August 2012: The wifi problem is still ongoing, with the wifi connection being lost erratically - sometimes when haven't used browser/net for a while and sometimes when still using it (which is even more annoying!) I've tried all the different suggestions so far, so [...]
Possible Fix to Mountain Lion wifi issue…
Update: Friday 3rd August - wifi still dropping out, even after WPA2 move. Next thing to try, deleting the WEP Network setting and seeing what happens. Also found this page on osxdaily.com site, which reports the wifi problem and some solutions, including renewing DHCP - which [...]
Mac OSX Lion problem – wifi connection drops after sleep
Updated - 18 April 2012 - Problem seems to have gone now, between my fix and the Apple update on 5 April. Updated - 5 April 2012 - Apple released an update for iMac titled 'iMac Wifi Update' today, which I've now updated my system with. Hopefully this [...]