Issue 215 – The 20 biggest Mac problems solved
Christopher Phin - 12 November 2009 - 1:06pm
Don’t give up on your ailing Mac – we show you just how easy it is to get back up and running!
If you spend your day using PCs, dealing with infuriating glitches becomes second nature. But Apple has made things so straightforward that you get used to stuff just working. When it doesn’t, it comes as a nasty shock. Fortunately, the brick walls you may occasionally run up against will generally turn out, on closer inspection, to be mere ha-has in the garden of Mac. So next time you find yourself staring at the screen with a mounting sense of horror, take a deep breath and read the article. We’ll take you calmly through the steps you should follow to resolve the issue.
Also in the issue, from troublesome screensavers to crashing apps, we answer your top 20 upgrade questions with our Snow Leopard Q&A special. We ditch the road maps and take the latest GPS apps for iPhone out on the road; find out which apps get you from A to B and which ones take the long way round. Plus the issue's packed with tutorials too; here's just a sample:
- Make a podcast jingle
- Record and share video
- Add a watermark to photos
- Protect your Mac
- Speed up your workflow
- Edit your photos for free
- And more…
On the disc
- Twit Menulet 4
- GrupaDupa 1.0.3
- SWF Encrypt 4.0.6
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craigrobinson
24 November 2009 - 12:06pm
Parallels 5 conection error
Since i upgraded from parallels 4 to 5 i keep getting this annoying message box pop up when i try to run explorer or internet explorer saying can't connect to server either its not connected or the IP address is wrong and windows runs supper slow until you click ok and load explorer a bit more then pops up again and again and again. I have disabled back to my Mac thinking it was the server drive connected to my Airport extreme base station at home but it still pops up. I am at a loss as to what to do has anybody else seen this problem.