The CrashPlan app allows you to exclude network adapters and wireless networks from use by CrashPlan. For example, this is useful if you want to prevent CrashPlan from: Using a slow VPN connection Backing up through your iPhone that could result in charges from your carrier This tutorial provides a step-by-step guide to excluding network adapters and wireless networks.

Need to set Microsoft Outlook 2015 as your default application on Mac OS X Yosemite or El Capitan? Using the preferences from Mail.app doesn't save Outlook as the 'Default email reader'… A solution is to open Mail, and on the general tab, instead of using the drop down menu to select Outlook, Click on Select and browse to the Applications folder and select Microsoft Outlook.  

If you suspect that that your iPod's hard drive has started to fail: Take your iPod and place your right thumb on the centre SELECT button and your left on the top MENU button. Press down both thumbs for about 6 seconds until your iPod reboots. Immediately move your left thumb around to the rewind button |<< on the left and hold this down together with SELECT for a further 6 seconds. Your iPod should now switch into Diagnostic Boot mode. Press MENU for Manual Test, then select IO > HardDrive > HDSMARTData to reveal your stats. For comparison here are mine taken when my 6th Generat...

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With Dictation, you can use your voice instead of having to type text. Your Mac will even understand  basic text-related commands such as “all caps,” “new paragraph,” and “new line.” You can read more about it at Apple's support website here: http://support.apple.com/en-nz/ht5449

Mac OS X is designed to give you a safe and secure computing environment, often by the use of passwords. One of the best things you can do to keep your information and computer secure is to use good, hard-to-guess passwords. These suggestions can help you create a unique, secure password for all of your online accounts, not just your Apple computer and AppleID. http://support.apple.com/en-nz/HT201579