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Networking on a Mac

General Apple

My setup at home consists of a Laptop PC running Windows XP Pro, my iMac and a small NAS (network attached storage). Basically a hard drive plugged into my ADSL router.
I have been struggling when trying to connect to my laptop over the network from my iMac. When clicking on the hard disk icon on [...]

Original Macintosh manual from 1984

General Apple

I came across this article just now. Someone has bought an original 1984 Macintosh instruction manual on ebay.
Now, considering I was only 9 in 1984, I can’t say I remember much about the original Macintosh, but I do vaguely remember my dad’s company having one that I used to play games on. I can remember [...]

10 top tips for Windows to Mac switchers

General Apple

Here are my top 10 tips for anyone who is switching from a Windows based PC to an Apple Mac. Some of them are tips and some are just things I’ve found out along the way. These are not in any order:

Purchase a copy of Parallels Desktop for Mac if you need to use some [...]

Blue screen of death

General Apple

Well it was more of a see through gray screen of death really.
Tonight, I had Firefox and Entouage open and I clicked on Parallels in my dock to launch it. When the Parallels window opened, I clicked on the start icon to boot my Windows XP partition when it happened. A veil of gray slid [...]