by darryl | May 25, 2019 | Tech Notes, Troubleshooting Knowledge Base
Cocktail is a Mac maintenance utility that performs many cleanup tasks. It’s easy to use, and we strongly recommend it to every Mac user. It will speed up your Mac, correct fonts that are not displaying properly, files that display the wrong icons, and many...
by darryl | May 24, 2019 | Tech Notes, Troubleshooting Knowledge Base
If you notice that your Mac is slower than usual, or isn’t behaving the way it normally does, it may be due to malware…a word that includes viruses, worms, trojans, phishing scripts, and adware…all different kinds of files that negatively affect the...
by darryl | May 24, 2019 | Tech Notes, Troubleshooting Knowledge Base
This article is adapted from an Apple knowledge base article at http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1564?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US Starting up in Safe Mode does several things: It forces a check of the startup volume, just like the First Aid feature of Disk Utility....
by darryl | Oct 13, 2011 | Tech Notes, Troubleshooting Knowledge Base
FontExplorer X, and the later versions called FontExplorer X Pro (http://www.fontexplorerX.com) include the tools you need to clean your font caches. Here’s how. Cleaning the System Font Caches 1. With FontExplorer’s window on your screen, click Clean...
by darryl | Oct 13, 2011 | Tech Notes, Troubleshooting Knowledge Base
If you use FontBook (the font manager that comes with Mac OS X), Extensis Suitcase, or other font manager software that doesn’t have built-in font cache cleaning, you can still clean your font caches with Font Finagler. Font Finagler is shareware, available at:...
by darryl | Oct 13, 2011 | Tech Notes, Troubleshooting Knowledge Base
People have reported getting an error message when clicking on the Type tool in PhotoShop. The error message says, “Could not complete your request because of a program error.” The Adobe installer for Photoshop or any Creative Suite installs a large number...
