Apple Tips, Help & Tech Blog
Practical Apple tips, troubleshooting advice and the occasional bit of technology nonsense from Dan LaRocque and Robert Van De Weghe at Up Your Media.
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Back Up Your Hard Drive With Time Machine
Get Some Peace Without Missing What Matters
How To Clear Your Browser Caches and Cookies
How to Deactivate Your Facebook Account, and Whatever Happened to Pirate?
How to Record Your Mac Screen
Memory (RAM) vs Storage Capacity
Passwords, Passkeys and Security for Your Mac
Understanding System Settings on Your Mac
Up Your Media’s Custom iPhone Ringtones
Use iPhone Reader View to Get Straight To The Content
Using Multiple Photos Libraries On Your Mac
What’s Inside Your Mac? The Main Parts Explained
Your Mac Says Your Startup Disk Is Almost Full. Now What?
Latest Posts
How to Install the Adobe Flash Update
Lots of emails this week about the new Adobe Flash update and how to install it. They seem to update this plugin every 4 to 6 weeks, and it’s essential to many online services like YouTube videos and other sites. First, go…
Back Up Your Hard Drive With Time Machine
Backing up your Mac is one of the easiest ways to protect your photos, documents and other important files. Apple’s built-in Time Machine makes the process largely automatic. Once it’s set up, your Mac can regularly back itself up in the background…
Get Some Peace Without Missing What Matters
Our iPhones are useful little devices, but they are also remarkably good at interrupting us. Messages, phone calls, email, social media, news alerts and app notifications can turn a quiet evening into a steady stream of buzzing, banners and little red numbers…