Tag: performance
If you use your Mac to watch any kind of movies… this Application is a must have!
It is my great pleasure to introduce you to Dynamo. Dynamo allows you to play videos faster, slow them down, and skip ads. Ever been bored by the slow pace of training videos? Speed them up! Annoyed by the ads when watching on demand TV or Amazon Prime? Skip them! You’re welcome!
Time to get an SSD…
If you don’t yet have an SSD in your Mac, it’s time to upgrade! By far the biggest speed boost on a Mac comes with upgrading the Hard Disk to an SSD. A faster processor (i7 etc) will improve the speed of some tasks, more RAM can avoid a slowdown, but a faster SSD improves…
Adding an SSD to the new 2018 Mac Mini
The hard drives in the new 2018 Mac mini are PCIe which means they are very fast, but they are soldered in – you can’t upgrade them. But thanks to the USB-C interface on the new Mac Mini, an external SSD drive is now a good option. It’s as fast as the previous Internal SSD…
How to speed up your mac with a Solid State SSD Drive
How to upgrad the boot drive on your Macintosh to an SSD drive.
What is the ‘Other’ data hogging all the disc space on my macbook?
I have a friend who has a 120 GB MacBook Air and his hard drive was filling up. There were lots of suggestions on the Internet as to what might be causing it – Spotify cache, system files, movies, but what’s the best way to find out what is using up your hard disk space?…
Resetting a drum cartridge in a printer
Many printer manufacturers have a built in counter on the drum cartridge in their laster printers. This is so that the drum cartridge will get replaced at a regular interval and remain in good condition. The drum can in many cases continue to function a long time after the counter has expired. It is possible…
What’s the best SSD drive for a Mac and how do I install it?
In 2015 I wrote this post about installing an SSD drive. Back then SSD drives were expensive and the whole process I described was a bit complicated. Now SSD drives have dropped dramatically in price and you can just replace your existing drive with an SSD one. I can’t think of any reason why you…
Does my mac need more memory?
When your computer is running a bit slowly, how can you tell if getting more memory will help?  The short answer is that if you have little or no ‘free memory’ or if your ‘page-out’ count is high, then you need more RAM. Here’s how to check those two things on any Macintosh running OS X.
7 ways to make your Mac boot faster.
When your computer first turns on it needs to load the system software (OS-X) and some settings from the hard drive. This is called ‘booting’. Boot time can slow down over time as you accumulate more software and hardware connected to your computer. Here are some tips to make your Mac boot faster.
How to get your website to appear in a google search
Web pages generally  do not automatically appear on search engine results pages. To make your site appear in google and other search engines you need to manually add your site. This is called submitting your site to a search engine. You don’t have to pay to do this – it’s free. Read on to find…
How to choose which macintosh to buy.
When you are researching buying a mac there are a few things to consider, one of them is speed.
How to find out how much memory your Mac has.
It’s very easy to find out how much memory your mac has – just go to the apple menu (top left of your screen) and select About this Mac.
How to free up some Hard disk space.
Here’s a few different ways to recover some extra Hard Drive space.
How to run Windows on a Mac
O dear, this is a tragic topic. Nevertheless, I just installed Windows XP on my Intel Macintosh to do my tax return and it was easy!
How to get the most out of your ipod and laptop battery
With so many different battery types, how do you know whether to recharge them or flatten them every time you use them, and does it matter?
How to clean up your ‘Open With’ Menu
if you select ‘open with’ you get a list of all the programs you can open a file with. After a while this list can become quite long…