When you first turn on your Mac, different Mac startup programs may launch without your assistance. In fact, it may really bother you that many of these programs launch, as it slows down your ability to jump right into your computer and get work done. You really just want your machine to load only items that are useful to you or items that are necessary for your operating system to run. Below, MacPro Services explains the 3 main types of startup and login items and how to take control of … [Read more...]
Back to School Tallahassee: Mac Plans
What's your back to school plan? It's time to go back to school Tallahassee. Apple has officially launched this year’s Back to School promotion which gives university students or their parents a chance to buy qualifying Mac, iPhone and iPad products and accessories and get an iTunes Gift card. If you buy a Mac, Apple will gift you a $100 App Store Gift Card. Buy an iPad or iPhone and Apple will throw in a $50 Gift Card. You can redeem your card against any content purchase on iTunes, including … [Read more...]
Apple Student Discount for Computers
All students should take a quick glance at the Apple student discount at Apple's online store. It shows that the standard MacBook Pro, which comes without Apple’s high density Retina Display, will now set consumers back $999. This means that a solid student computer can now be purchased for under $1000 for the first time in Apple's History. For reference, this is the model with the 2.5 GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 processor, combined with a 500GB hard drive and 4GB of memory. The high-end … [Read more...]
The Ultimate Mac Backup Guide
You never forget the first time your hard drive dies and you realize that you haven't backed up. The horrible, stomach-turning moment when you know you've just lost a whole bunch of stuff that's irreplaceable. Photos. Music. Videos that you took at family events. All gone without a Mac backup. You'll probably spend the next few hours sweating, downloading disk utilities and searching for boot disks to try and fix things. Perhaps you got lucky and MacPro Services was able to kick your drive back … [Read more...]
Protect a Template Letterhead on a Mac in 3 Seconds
A short but very useful article today. Have you created that perfect document that can be reused again and again? But it would all be ruined if you or a co-worker were to accidentally copy over or delete it. The best example of this is letterhead on a mac, but this technique will work with any document. [dropcap]1[/dropcap]Right click on your document and select "get info" (alternatively, select the document and press 'command+i'). [dropcap]2[/dropcap]Check the box that says 'Stationary … [Read more...]