If you have been a Virgin Media customer for a while you can upgrade your Virgin Media router for free. Don’t call them though as you will likely not get to speak to an operator that knows you can do this. Instead, apply online here: https://www.virginmedia.com/shop/hub-swap?buspart=uk_app_connect2_hubswap. If you log in to your Virgin account you … Read more Upgrade your Virgin Media router for free
Enable hibernation to preserve your MacBook battery. If it hibernates, the Mac will not drain the battery at all
Mojave Patcher allows you to create a custom Mojave installer disk for installing Mojave on an unsupported Mac
I’ve had a few users with this error this month, so here is a fix. The problem: when you open Calendar on your Mac, you are quickly greeted with a window saying, “Couldn’t move your calendars to iCloud because an error occurred”. It will keep coming back, whatever you choose to do, and it makes … Read more Couldn’t move your calendars to iCloud because an error occurred. – Solved
Have more than one kind of backup A quick post about why it is good to have more than one kind of backup. This is the message I was greeted sorting out a client’s Time Machine backup this weekend. This Mac’s hard disk had certainly got a problem as the Time Machine backup had failed, … Read more Have more than one kind of backup
If your Mac won’t run MacOS Mojave, but you want to keep it up-to-date, you could just ditch MacOS and install something else on your Mac instead. To be honest, I would only advise this if the Mac in question is not your only Mac, but it is nice to know that there are alternatives … Read more My Mac won’t run MacOS Mojave
Mac backup using Time Machine and Cloud backup services The purpose of this article is to give an overview of the kinds of Mac backup solution available. It covers some solutions that backup to a disk, some that can backup across your own network, one that can backup to another computer you own on a different site … Read more Mac backup to NAS, USB or Cloud
If you want better printing from web pages without all the extra guff (images, adverts, etc.) that gets printed out too, try Printliminator. It allows you to strip a webpage of the items you don’t want before printing out. It installs as an extension in Chrome or Opera (Firefox to come), or if you go to the link above, you can … Read more Achieve better printing from web pages