With OS X updates there are sometimes popular options that are taken away.  This happened with the Lion release when they removed “save as” and replaced it with “duplicate”.  Nobody knows the reasons for these but it happens, then we miss them and want them back.  The good news is that the “save as” can be brought back quite easily when you know how.

The strange thing of course is why was “save as” taken away anyway? “duplicate” is an option that is just not accepted by users, it bre…

With the release of Apple’s new OS X Mountain Lion people are rushing to download and start playing with it.  There are a few ways to easily upgrade to it, you may even be able to get it free if you bought a new Mac after June 11 2012 if you go to the Mac App Store this will help you find out.

If you are going to be able to upgrade easily to Mountain Lion (which is Apples aim) and have to pay for it the cost is only £13.99/$19.99 so it’s not a costly upgrade.  If you have an iMac tha…

Computers have quite a few pieces of technology that can go wrong.  The processor can burn out, the memory could be damaged which, and of course the hard disk could fail.  There are signs that a hard disk is coming to the end of its life, and of course you should always back it up for times like this.

For Mac users this is obviously the same worry.  The hard disk itself is the computers long term memory store and place where all of the software is installed so without it the computer…

When using computers there are important files that are created, not only the documents, images and movie files you are working on but many system files and saved information for all of your applications.  What this does is make it essential to always back up your data and store it safely, this can be in the form of online storage or external drives.

Apple provide backup capability in the form of Time Machine, with OS X Lion they also provide the ability to encrypt your data to make …

In Microsoft Windows printing the screen is fairly simple, it’s just a case of pressing the Print Screen key.  This will then put the screen capture onto the clipboard where it can then be copied onto a picture.  This is simple, but for Mac users it’s slightly more complicated, but also more powerful.

To actually capture a screen on a Mac you have to press a number of key combinations.  Once this is done it will either print the screen to a file on the desktop or it will print the sc…