Unlike most Macs, Mac minis and Mac Pros that are sold to be servers are supposed to come with Screen Sharing (VNC) turned on in OS X, so that you can set them up from another Mac even if you don't have a screen and keyboard attached. This Apple Knowledgebase Article explains how. Except we've now ...
We like being clever (how to sync Palm OS on a Mac or PC)
While most of us have moved on from our PDAs and smartphones of yesteryear, some of our clients love a specific device, and we consider it our job to figure out a way to let them use it if that's what they want to do. We have a client who still uses a Palm organizer, because its calendar view ...
What is a Mac server?
It used to be that a Mac server was something only a systems administrator would ever want to go near. It was a special, expensive version of Mac OS X -- for example, Snow Leopard Server cost $500, as opposed to $129 for the regular version of Mac OS X. And the updates had to be supplied separately, ...
How to make a Lion installer USB stick when you already have Lion installed
This is a bit of rehash, but it felt worth rehashing. It's been well established, such as in this tutorial, that you can use the Mac OS X 10.7 Lion download from the Mac App Store to make a Lion installer USB stick. However, that doesn't help if you bought a new Mac and it came with Lion. When a ...
IvanExpert Gift Certificates
IvanExpert gift certificates are now available, in time for Hanukkah (which starts on December 20th) and Christmas (the 25th of course). You can buy one or more hours of our Apple support services for friends, colleagues, or family members. We customize the gift certificate and then email it to ...
Lion: the recovery partition, and how to save the build of Lion your Mac needs
When you install Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, or buy a current Mac, one of the things that happens is that 650 MB of your drive space is set aside into a "recovery partition". You can use command-R, or the option key, during startup and your Mac will be able to start from there. The Recovery Partition is a ...