What would you do it you maintain your Mac(harddisk/system)?

I would like to gather some good ideas for maintaining Macintosh and prevent it from crushing. what tools you are using, please feel free to share.

Rule #1:
Always have a backup (preferably more than one).
Rule #2:
Backup regularly.
Rule #3:
Wouldn't hurt to run Disk Utility verify/repair on all your drives every once in a while.
Rule #4:
Be very careful, and keep a record of, all third party add ons (system "enhancements)" you install.
Rule #5:
Make sure there's always at least 25GB free for the boot system (to do it's paging, etc.). Some quote the amount to keep free as a percentage, which IMO, is rediculous in todays multi-gigabyte drives. But it's not a bad rule of thumb for a relatively small SSD I suppose.

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HT4061 I lost my iPad and am concerned about privacy. What would you do if you lost your iPad to ensure privacy?

I lost my iPad and feel exposed. What would you do if you lost your iPad? It wasn't locked.

These links may be helpful.
How to Track and Report Stolen iPad
http://www.ipadastic.com/tutorials/how-to-track-and-report-stolen-ipad
Reporting a lost or stolen Apple product
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2526
Report Stolen iPad Tips and iPad Theft Prevention
http://www.stolen-property.com/report-stolen-ipad.php
How to recover a lost or stolen iPad
http://ipadhelp.com/ipad-help/how-to-recover-a-lost-or-stolen-ipad/
How to Find a Stolen iPad
http://www.ehow.com/how_7586429_stolen-ipad.html
Apple Product Lost or Stolen
http://sites.google.com/site/appleclubfhs/support/advice-and-articles/lost-or-st olen
Oops! iForgot My New iPad On the Plane; Now What?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303459004577362194012634000.html
If you don't know your lost/stolen iPad's serial number, use the instructions below.
How to Find Your iPad Serial Number
http://www.ipadastic.com/tutorials/how-to-find-your-ipad-serial-number
 Cheers, Tom

What would you do with 150$ for your ipod???

Just say that your parents give you 150$ to spend for your ipod....and you already have an inCase or iSkin....what would you buy? And just say that you don't want an iSpeaker....What would you get? Well i got that problem, i have 150$ Future shop gift certificate (a Canadian Technologie store), and i need to spend it....any suggestion?
Chris,

spend it on music, if they dont have cds buy itunes
cards, theres practically no point in having an ipod
if you dont have good music on it
this is wat i would do
Nano 4GB black,Moto RAZR V3 black, PSP, all kinds of cases for nano,radio/remote Windows XP <img src="http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e13/superman5656/s.gif"align="right"</span>

What would you do with this credit profile? I need your expertise.

Hello MyFico Community,
I am trying to build a decent credit profile. Is there anything I should be doing or not doing to improve my Credit Profile? Currently I have one foot in the Garden-LOL!For the last coupe monthsI have been receiving a lot of mailers, Citi, BoA, US Bank, AARP and a few others, so its sort of tempting.  My Fico Scores are:
760, 755 & 756. These scores are from my Discover, CapOne and Barclay statements. Goals scores are 800 across the board.   Reports:
All reports are clean, 100% on-time payments, nothing negative reporting. Inquiries:
I have 7, 6 and 8 inquiries showing on my reports.AAof Credit: Not sure about this Experian/Credit.com- 6.7 years. Credit Sesame says 1.8 months?   Accounts:The accounts with balances will be paid to $0 by June 26th.Account Name: Credit Limit: Balance:
Amex Everyday $10,000 $286
CapOne Venture $10,000 $1112CapOne QS $5000 $555CapOne Platinum $6800 $0   Aviator $4000 $0J.Crew $4000 $0SportsmanGuide $2500 $0
Discover $2000 $0
Target $200 $0
Wells Fargo $1700 $0  I've begun using QS and Amex (0%APR) as main go-to cards.
Was also thinking i’d put everything I can on cards and PIF each month to take advantage of the 0% and rewards.
Is this a good plan? I'm still learning how to best utilize my portfolio. Are there other cards I should look at acquiring?  I appreciate any input.

Re: What would you do with this credit profile? I need your expertise.
Options06-15-2015 05:49 AM - edited 06-15-2015 06:03 AM
What I'd do doesn't really matter. These are not one-size-fits-all matters so each needs to determine his/her own strategy and tactics based on the individual's situation, goals, priorities, preferences, etc. IMO you don't know what to do because you're not clear on these matters. Very True, I am not clear but with the help of the community giving me things to consider I am getting there.
You need to define what you needs/want and then prioritize that list. That will give you a list of critiera that you then use to select cards that suit you. Thanks. Good way to focus my thinking about it.
Rewards is a common criteria and if rewards matter to you then you need to look at your spend and where your money is going to select rewards with the most benefit to you. Since i’m going to be using a main CC, I’d rather have cash rewards first or rewards that are versatile for gift cards. I already have a travel card that works well for me so thats not that important.
RandomSpirit wrote:
AAof Credit: Not sure about this Experian/Credit.com- 6.7 years. Credit Sesame says 1.8 months? Thanks. Was wondering where they figured this. AAoA is just an average like any other average. Add up the ages of the accounts and divide by the number of accounts. Many find it easier to convert into months, calculate and then convert back into years. You can use Excel and its date formulas if you don't want to do this manually. There are also online AAoA calculators. Experian is more likely to be correct. CS is probably providing AAoOA.
RandomSpirit wrote:
Was also thinking i’d put everything I can on cards and PIF each month to take advantage of the 0% and rewards. Is this a good plan? You're really not leveraging a 0% offer if you're PIF'ing each month. However, if you're not PIF'ing each month on cards without 0% offers then you're killing rewards.Okay this is confusing, would you mind clarifying? The Amex and QS have 0% interest for well into next year (not sure of exact date, I will look up again) so it would seem that it would not matter if i carry balance or pay in full until the real APR begins next year.
So whats the best way to utilize these as my main cards to get as much cash back(QS) and MR point as possible. Carry balance or pif, or does it not matter in this case for now?
RandomSpirit wrote:
Are there other cards I should look at acquiring?  As with all other request you need to tell us what you need/want so we have something to use to narrow down the options for you.
Now, I am leaning towards low interest being the most important to me, secondly would be cash back.
RandomSpirit wrote:
Was thinking about BoA Cash Rewards offer for 12.99 because of the lower interest rateHere's an example of why a prioritized list of criteria matters. If the lowest possible interest is a priority above all else then you shouldn't be looking at rewards cards as they typically come with higher interest rates. If you want the lowest possible APR you need to fins a barebones card. They're offered with rates as low as 6.x% depending on what you qualify for. This is most important to me
That said, rewards and a low APR aren't mutually exclusive but typically rewards cards will come with a higher APR as you aren't getting something for nothing. While I do try to get my APR's as low as possible you might want to consider why APR is a concern if you're paying in full. In case I ever have to carry a real balance.Not telling you what to do here but consdier such things when prioritizing your list. For example: is a lower APR more important than the biggest rewards for your spend?
RandomSpirit wrote:
Citi Dble Cash and, perhaps
Chase Freedom for sign-up bonus?
Honestly, I was thinking to have a more diversified portfolio. I don;t have any Chase or City cards.So far we have:
• 1 Low APR
• 2-High rewards rate on non-category spend (Double Cash)
• 4-Sign up bonus
• 3-Diversity
Which is most important? Which is least? Where do the rest fall? We can't tell you this. You need to tell us.
Again, I'd recommend looking at your spend and ensuring that your card lineup maxmizes rewards on your spend. The Double Cash is a good option for non category spend but if you haven't found higher rewards for a major spend category that you have then you might want to look into finding something for that category. Thanks for taking the time to offer your suggestions Tekeshi74. If gives me a lot consider.

If you traded in your mac mini for a windows pc, what would you get?

I have a late 2009 Mac Mini and am just chafing to upgrade. It's slow as molasses. But at the same time, I'm not willing to pay full price for 2012 model, and Apple is way behind in releasing an update. In fact I'm hearing speculation that Apple may be just discontinuing the Mac Mini.
I don't know... But I'm getting tired of waiting. And getting a different model of Mac doens't work for me, because I want to use my own screens. (I'm running two large screens in "portrait" mode.)
Also, I have a Windows 7 PC at work, and I've come to realize that I don't mind Windows 7 and don't see it as intrinsically better than the Apple OS. In fact Windows & has generally been mariginally more stable, and a lot faster then the OS on my Mac. In fact I got both systems around the same time and the Windows 7 system did better with less RAM and is "aging" better.
HOWEVER, what I really love about the Mac Mini is how QUIET it is. I have it in my bedroom, next to my bed, and it's noise is barely noticeable. So I guess I should look into seeing if there area any desktop PC's that are as quiet.
Have you considered switching back to a PC, and if you did what would you get?

I moved away from Apple in 2007 and have never looked back !
I use the ASRock Vision X 420D http://www.asrock.com/nettop/Intel/VisionX%20Series%20(Haswell)/
Its the same size as the current Mini but a bit taller - BUT it is FULLY user upgradeable and about the same price once you make a mini upto the same spec.
I run Windows 8.1 on it and love it - yes there are lots of people bleating on about the 'metro' style of Win 8 but if you configure it (which has been a feature from launch, not a 3rd party hack) you never have to see the metro interface and you have a standard desktop.
As to woodmeister50 comment of : Also, with Win8, many third party add on companies have dropped support etc. is that not the same for Mavericks ?!
Custom mini
ASRock Vision X 420D, 16Gb Ram, 3x 512Gb SSD, AMD Radeon R270X, WiFi (n, ac)

One Accesspoint and two server...what would you suggest?

Hello!
I'm developing an application which handles two wireless barcodereaders. There are two computers, and one of them is connected with the accesspoint.
The communication to and from the accesspoint is managed with an COM Component, which is used from Java.
The barcodescanners should interact with my application , for excample if the salesman scanns a customer-ticket, the customers data should be displayed on the screen. The barcodereaders can be identified with an uniqu id, so it's no problem to know where the data came from.
But my problem is...I'm getting all of the events to the computer which is connected with the accesspoint....
How do I tell the other computer to display the customers data which have been scanned with the other barcodereader?
How can I get the event handled on the other computer???
Sockets would be a possible way, but I think that might get very complex - than i thought i could call with RMI a fireEvent Method on the 2nd computer...!?!
What would you do to solve this problem?
I'd be happy for your help!
Greetings Martin G.

Nobody out there who knows how to solve this problem?
My main problem is how to get events which occure on on computer handled on the other computer!?!
I'd be very happy for your help
Greetings Martin G.

I have read up on all about crashes and i cant even open it in safe mode :( i have tried deleting it and reinstalling it but the problem still persists. What would you suggest i do and is there any way i canget hold of firefox 6 for mac?

i have read up on all about crashes and i cant even open it in safe mode :( i have tried deleting it and reinstalling it but the problem still persists. What would you suggest i do and is there any way i canget hold of firefox 6 for mac?

Does the regular Firefox 8 release version work or does the version crash as well?
*Firefox 8.0.x: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html
Create a new profile as a test to check if your current profile is causing the problems.
See "Basic Troubleshooting: Make a new profile":
*https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Basic+Troubleshooting#w_8-make-a-new-profile
There may be extensions and plugins installed by default in a new profile, so check that in "Tools > Add-ons > Extensions & Plugins" in case there are still problems.
If that new profile works then you can transfer some files from the old profile to that new profile, but be careful not to copy corrupted files.
See:
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferring_data_to_a_new_profile_-_Firefox

Can you trade in your iPad for another one???.......... If you can would you get your money back?????

Can you trade in your iPad for another one???.......... If you can would you get your money back?????

Generally, no. You have 2 weeks from purchase. But you have options. Www.gazelle.com will make you an offer. Sell it to them, then go buy what you want. What is the issue? Just trading for a different machine will get you only what you had in the first place.

I have a 2009 13"MacBook pro running on OS X 10.6.8. How do I know whether this is leopard or mountain? What would you advise that I use as I need to be running OS X 10.7? All help appreciated. Thank you.

I have a 2009 13"MacBook pro running on OS X 10.6.8.
How do I know whether this is leopard or mountain?
What would you advise that I use as I need to be running OS X 10.7?
Also can you advise how I upgrade please?
All help appreciated. Thank you.

Thank you for your response Niel.
I do run Microsoft Office 2011 - will Snow Leopard support this?
Finally why snow leopard and not mountain lion?

What would you replace an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (256MB) with?

Hi,
I started a thread before asking whether I could replace a 256MB card with a 128MB card, even though the interface was a different shape.
But, as I know so little about Macs and graphics card, it seems wiser to ask
What would you replace an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (256MB) with?
The computer is user for photo editing and normal internet/email use. The photo editing is done on Adobe Photoshop for professional treatment of photographs.
The computer is a Power Mac G5 (1.6GHz) and budge is £80 / $120.
Thanks in advance, Franc.

Hi-
Please check my recommendations in your other thread.
Better options for the 9800 Pro are the Radeon 9800 XT, Geforce 6800 GT, Geforce 6800 Ultra, or if one has the money or finds a good deal, a Radeon X800 XT.
For your budget and uses, the Geforce cards are a performance value buy.
BTW, I have owned all of the cards, used all of the cards, and tested all of the cards.
Graphics Cards- ATI and Nvidia
See my testing pages starting here:
Page 1: Open GL

"Do you want to allow the following program from an unknown publisher to make changes to this computer?" I mean....what would you do? Is it safe to click yes....(Don Don Don...*sound effect*)..please help...

Okay everybody...so I'm on the struggle bus so I'm going from Photoshop cs6 off my old broken laptop to trying to dwn Photoshop Cs2...either way I love PS. Now when I tried downloading it for free from Adobe...succeeded...but when I went to the download folder to install it, it said "Do you want to allow the following program from an unknown publisher to make changes to this computer?" I mean....what would you do? Is it safe to click yes....(Don Don Don...*sound effect*)..please help...

If you already have a license for photoshop cs6, why do you want photoshop cs2?
You can just install photoshop cs6 on your new computer provided both operating systems are the same kind (both mac or both windows)
If you don't have an install dvd for cs6, you can download photoshop cs6 from here and use your serial:
http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/policy-pricing/cs6-product-downloads.html

What would you most like to see in a future version?

I'm pretty sure the DSC development team looks at these posts so what would you most like to see in the future? For me, I'd like to be able to dynamically add tags without shutting down the engine.
Regards,
Robert

In "context help". No more "no description available". At least give me the data type.
PaulG.
"I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane." -- George Orwell

How would you describe your software

hello
as you are supposed to be good programmers ......
have any one asked you this question before ..."WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR SOFTWARE !!"
any one knows any good paper or document about this subject ??
the best way to do it ?
how to start ??
what to speak about ?
do I have to speak about tech things ???
is there a model to apply ??
what is the best way to show the difference between my software and another ..?
thank you in advance

Unless you've had to work with Oracle's BPEL technology, honey, you don't know what mess is.To be fair, when I worked on BPEL, it was in beta. We were suffering, and
Oracle sent us a "BPEL expert". When we described what we wanted him
to do, he looked at his watch, laughed and said, "Looks like it's going to
be a short workday for me". [...] Three weeks later, he crawled away. Later,
they sent us a very experienced developer. We told him of all the bugs
in BPEL we were having to work around, and he reassured us that
it had been thoroughly tested, and didn't think we had been really finding
bugs on the Oracle side. [...] It wasn't long before I saw him sheepishly
submitting bug reports.
My feeling on Oracle is that there are some things they do well: their
core database stuff. But there trying to deliver the whole application stack,
and they're not that good in other areas. They also make you constantly
chase them as they keep upgrading and rolling out new technologies.
The blame for the whole mess goes to a senior manager, who moved
out of the project before it hit the fan. He agreed to use BPEL because
we were an "oracle shop". Ha! Yes, we used oracle databases, but
we had no experience with other oracle products. We were also sold
a chain a technologies that were never demonstrated to work together,
and it took us months and months to get anything up and running that
demonstrated an end-to-end run of the system.
End of rant. I hated that assignment so badly. I spent most of my time
sitting in the stairwell.

Would you return your iPhone 4 to get the iPhone 4.1 on September ?

Hi all,
The question is simple : would you return your current iPhone 4 to get the iPhone 4.1 on September ? I had to give the revised iPhone 4 a name , as Mr.Jobs did not deny the hardware revision of the phone in the Q&A session of today's presentation.
I have the iPhone 4 and the Bumper, no signal issues with the case on, but a hardware-fixed phone sounds much better, what would you do if you were in my situation?
Many thanks..
Message was edited by: masterchan777

stevenaquino wrote:
People are stupid if they honestly believe Apple's going to release new hardware for the iPhone 4. The only new iPhone hardware they're probably working on is next year's model.
Steven
Would you Apple zealots use some common sense for once in your lives? There is a reason behind everything and the September 30 date was not arbitrarily chosen out of the blue. It gives Apple more than enough time to tweak the manufacturing process and silently ship new phones to their stores and partners. Do you really think the white phone was delayed because they ran out of supplies or are having trouble manufacturing the white glass? Of course not. Anyone who truly thinks Apple wasn't aware of the antenna problem is an idiot.
If the tweak works, lo and behold, Apple will announce that new customers will no longer need free cases because Apple has done what no other mobile phone company has been able to do: triumph over physics. The reality is that new hardware revisions will have insulated the antenna and Apple will likely time the announcement with an OS update to make it seem like it was a software problem all along. Not so far-fetched after all the BS Apple has spewed in the last 2 weeks and it's certainly the lengths a company that doesn't want to admit to any wrongdoing would go to.
You think they're going to announce all that? No. Doing so would completely cannibalize their sales, in addition to admitting liability. Think, for God's sake.

What would you advise....

Upgrade time is here and I have been lurking on this forum watching for issues etc with the N97
Firstly, would you advise against me getting the phone? If so, what would you advise I replace my N95 8gb with?
Secondly, assuming the geek in me wins the argument and I get the N97, I was thinking the first thing to do would be a hard reset to get rid of the unwanted software and then an upgrade to the V11 firmware. Is this correct?
Cheers in advance
PP

There is a lot of confusion about this unwanted software issue on the N97. There is essentially 3 types of storage on the device:
The most obvious is the 32Gig of flash.. this is treated a bit like a USB disk.. Nokia don't put much on there and in some cases installing certain applications to this drive is not possbile. Further to this, when you use the phone in USB storage mode, the "drive" is disconnected from the phone and attached to the PC.. this means the phone has to close any applications that are running on the "e:" and looses its ability to read/write from there. This is a serious problem if you store your message repository on the e: as the phone will revert back to C: and you *may* loose all your messages
Then there is the z:. This is the ROM. and it is just that.. read-only.. If an application is installed there, you won't be able to remove it.. this goes for Quick Office and that boingo thing.. both are terrible apps.. You won't gain anything by removing them BUT there's the problem.. The boingo app is running all the time using RAM in the phone.. Since you can't disable it, it uses RAM rather than storage..
Lastly there's the c:.. this is flash that is always available to the phone. It is where your contacts, message, config, internet/browser cache and most things are stored by default. A bit like c:\windows on a PC.. So, Nokia in their infinite wisdom made it 70meg or so.. Brilliant.. I cannot stress how mind-blowing stupid that decision is and how it continues to ruin everyone's lives.
Many applications are installed on the c: by default. Why? because the 32Gig e: is not always available (see above about USB storage mode). When I transfered all my messages from my previous handset (using the sync thing) I was left with less than 5meg free..
This problem is NEVER going to be fixed.. there simply isn't enough storage on the phone to do this..
This is not the same as the low RAM problem.. the fact that, for example, you receive a text message or email with a hyper-link. you click open.. the web browser opens.. the phone runs out of memory and closes the messages app.. so now when you close the browser, the message app is also closed.. **bleep**?!?!?!?!?!?!
Nokia never fix their products.. ever.. anyone who claims they do is lying! Ok, that's harsh.. but..
In my experience (and I've owned many first gen Nokia products (7110, 7650, 770, 7710, 5800, N97) when Nokia sell a broken product, particularly if it is broken by design, they may release firmware fixes that update SOME stuff.. but they'll never fix most of them.. Instead they'll wait a few months and release a new product that doesn't suffer the same problems..
You'd think the N97 was fixing the problems with the 5800.. but the N97 is a very different beast.. It runs a different not entirely compatible version of S60.. They must know it was flawed from the start, though.. they introduced a Low memory set of features into S60 especially for N97.. Riiiight, Nokia.. you spent time and effort developing a way to handle low memory that actually isn't that good rather than just doubling the RAM in the phone.. how much is a 1Gig dimm these days?
This phone is terribly beta.. Even after v11 has been released it has a truely inconsistent look and feel.. You could get an N97, or you could wait for this fabled n97-mini there's recently been talk of.. or you could opt for a vendor that is trying to compete with Nokia in the smart phone market and so is actually making an effort to produce a phone that doesn't make their quality-assurance department look like kinder-garten nap time..
I've been disappointed with Nokia products before.. but NEVER so much as with the N97.. And in todays market are you going to pick a poor product in the hope that software may fix it later (bearing in mind it took over 3 weeks for Nokia to release the v11 firmware to all the phone versions.. that's right there are 100s of different versions of the N97) or are you going to opt for something the industry already accepts as a stable handset..
It's a shame.. I want to love it.. I've loved Symbian since its EPOC days.. but this phone is terrible in every aspect..
Quick office and Boingo.. that's a bit like bundling AOL and compuserv CD's with windows 95.. It feels that old!

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