Day: 1 May 2014

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OS X Track Pad Preferences Freezing

TouchPad

My batteries were failing on my external track pad the other day, and so I changed the batteries, since then whenever I went into the track pad preferences, System Preferences would freeze.

A quick reboot and no change so then I resorted to Apple’s support pages; as is generally the case with OS X the fix was quick and easy.

Go into your home Library folder, then in Cachese delete com.apple.systempreferences.  That was it, all back and working.

Recent versions of Mac OS have hidden the Home Library folder under the user account so a quick way of getting there is to press Command-Shift-G then in the box type:

~/Library

This will take you to your library folder.

 

 

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MacBook Airs have a minor upgrade

Macbook Air -topThere have been a lot of rumours over the last year about a new retina MaBook Air. The rumours also indicate that it will have a 12 inch screen.

The range currently consists of an 11 model and a 13 inch model. The 11 is great for people on the go and easily fits into a small camera bag. You would not want to do too much work on the 11 inch screen and if it was your only computer a desktop monitor would be essential. The 13 inch is more practical and still fits in most camera bags. It also comes with a built in SD card reader making it even more useful.

This weeks upgrade was a minor processor upgrade plus a minor price cut, always gratefully received.

Not sure whether to grab one of these or wait a little longer to see what comes.