Please note that we’ve written a new article with much more information about iTunes Match and a couple brief how-to’s. Just click here to read it. Apple announced iTunes Match during the WWDC keynote causing quite a stir in the music world. Some people say iTunes Match enables piracy; others think that Apple worked hard to satisfy the RIAA with the $25 subscription fee. The more paranoid people in the audience think the new service [...]
Apple’s, Scott Forstall, introduced iOS 5 during yesterday’s keynote presentation at WWDC 2011. Before diving into the top ten new features, we wanted to address some of the numbers that Apple’s Senior Vice President of iPhone Software mentioned. There are 200 Million iOS device in use every day worldwide. Wow. That accounts for 44% of the mobile market… from one manufacturer. There are also 425,000 apps on the iOS App Store. 14 Billion iOS app downloads: each [...]
Preparing for Lion is our new series that will help you transition to Mac OS 10.7 Lion. We’ll be adding more articles all the time, so be sure to come back and take a look. If you’d like to see all of the Lion materials, click Preparing for Lion. Apple just recapped many of the new features Lion will introduce in this morning’s WWDC Keynote. As we predicted, it will be downloadable through the Mac [...]
Preparing for Lion is our new series that will help you transition to Mac OS 10.7 Lion. We’ll be adding more articles all the time, so be sure to come back and take a look. If you’d like to see all of the Lion materials, click Preparing for Lion. Rumors are floating around that with Mac OS 10.7 Lion, companies will buy the regular operating system and then download the server add-on from the Mac App [...]
Preparing for Lion is our new series that will help you transition to Mac OS 10.7 Lion. We’ll be adding more articles all the time, so be sure to come back and take a look. If you’d like to see all of the Lion materials, click Preparing for Lion. Rumor has it that Apple will be dropping Rosetta support for PowerPC applications with the introduction of Lion. “Whoa, what was all of that computer jargon?” Before [...]
***Update*** We had a revelation and came up with a couple solutions for you. Please read our new article for a little more guidance with this problem. Just this morning, I had a one of our clients call me and say they just purchased a Verizon iPhone and couldn’t get it to restore from their backup. I promptly started a remote session to see what was going on. I had him plug in the Verizon [...]
In order to help protect our clients from the dreadful sinking feeling of data loss, we’ve begun implementing a new backup program called CrashPlan. We’ll cover all of the specifics of CrashPlan in another article but to give you a basic idea: CrashPlan allows us to backup your data to an offsite location in order to protect it from catastrophe. Offsite backup is crucial for any business, even home users. MacWorks’ custom implementations of CrashPlan [...]
Some of our clients are experiencing unexpected issues with Gmail, specifically with accounts that are configured via Google Apps. Google Apps allows you to use your own domain (@macworksinc.com) for your email address. If you’re not on a Google Apps account, we don’t think this will affect you. It seems that Google Apps users are getting server errors in their email clients if their account password is too simple. If you have your Gmail account [...]
There have been many issues with online security lately. The Sony PlayStation network was hacked causing members’ passwords and credit card information to become available online. Another group of hackers recently infiltrated one of the biggest marketing firms in the world and released millions of emails to spam bots (you may have noticed an increase in spam because of it). Gawker (a news company) was also hacked and released thousands of people’s passwords to the [...]
I have been trying to launch Windows QuickBooks 2010-2011 data files that are stored in the users Mac home directory. For VMWare Fusion QuickBooks cannot save a company data file on a shared or mirrored folder. When you attempt to save a new company data file to a shared or mirrored folder QuickBooks reports error -6176 0 "QuickBooks cannot get the network address of the server". To have QuickBooks recognize the shared or mirrored folder [...]
