As you can see, Lion Server training is coming to an end, fast. So get your training on the awesome server platform before it’s gone! The current price of the course is R7900 Excl. Torque IT is discounting it to R4900 Excl. I’ll take that kind of saving any day! Contact Torque IT directly at:[…]
Quick Tip: Hold down the option key when clicking the Airport icon in the menu bar. This will allow you to see more info regarding the wireless connection you are using, like Security, Channel, SSID etc. Handy little tip. Use it. Enjoy!
If you have made the upgrade to Mountain Lion, like me, you are most likely loving the new notification centre. With a whole range of apps and websites beginning to support it, the notification centre is set to become extremely useful in our day-to-day lives. Why not allow iTunes to integrate with it then? Well[…]
Just a quick little tweak, that makes your iTunes just a bit more functional. To show the artwork of the currently playing song in iTunes, all you need is this tiny app. DockArt comes from the developers called Splook, and is super simple to use. Once you’ve downloaded DockArt, Copy DockArtPlugin.bundle to ~/Library/iTunes/iTunes Plug-Ins or[…]
Any Mac user that shares external drives with Windows machines knows; you can read and write to FAT32 drives, but you can only read from an NTFS one. This is very frustrating, since there is a file size limit of 4GB on FAT32. 5 years ago, that would not have been a problem. But today,[…]
If you’re an avid Apple fan, you will know this last week Monday was the start of the latest WWDC (World Wide Developer’s Conference) in San Francisco, WWDC ’12. As per usual, Apple had some great announcements to make, and as always, made the 2 hour long keynote most enjoyable. If you haven’t watched it[…]
If you were not lucky enough to join us last week Thursday, then you may not yet know this, but Torque IT is officially now an Apple Authorised Training Centre (AATC), and our first class is running this coming Monday, the 11th of June with myself as the instructor. The opening courses have been scheduled,[…]
I am extremely proud to be apart of this! South Africa has always managed to stay behind the curb with regards to Apple Training, and getting the certifications required to create AATC’s (Apple Authorised Training Centers). For this reason, I am very pleased to make the announcement that the forward-thinking company that brought me onboard,[…]
We all know about the ‘Open With’ menu, right? As soon as you control-click a file, you will have the option to choose which application to use when opening the file. Naturally your default app will take precedence, but you have the ability to choose an alternative app, for various reasons. Thanks to About.com The[…]
If you are the administrator for any size network that uses Macs on the front and back end, the chances are pretty good that you have encountered Apple Remote Desktop (ARD) already. I don’t need to highlight how amazing ARD is, but I will anyway. ARD allows you to observer multiple Macs on your network in[…]
Take a wild guess what my little boy is getting as a present for his 2nd birthday in 3 months? Yip, the new children’s book by authors Pam Pollock and Meg Belviso, “Who was Steve Jobs?” This is a great idea that celebrates the late, great leader and visionary of our times in a way[…]
We all love our iPads. But we all hate the everyday bumps and scratches that go along with it. Whether you are a construction foreman, over-eager skydiver or simply a parent with a soon-to-be-a-geek toddler running around, we will do all that we can to protect our precious pads. The new case in the Defender[…]
After a week in the cold and wet London, I have managed to get home to sunny South Africa, and couldn’t be happier. The latest beta-course train-the-trainer in London was a great success, and shortly the course is going to be delivered by Torque. Stay Tuned for info about it and the final outlines that[…]
Fuel your mind. Reach your potential. So I have finally returned from Abu Dhabi after an amazing week of training, and complete Apple overload. Not being entirely sure on what to expect at our first Train-the-Trainer, my colleague and I went in with an open mind. Apart from being 2 and half hours early on[…]
After a long, long break, it feels great to be back at the helm and splurging as much local Apple news as possible. For those that don’t know, I started up with my new employer this month, as the company’s Lead Apple Instructor. This is of course one of the most important criteria for any[…]
After weeks and weeks of pointless rumours clogging up our inboxes and RSS feeds, Apple has officially launched “The new iPad” and the new Apple TV. Let’s start with the new Apple TV then. The ATV now supports full 1080p videos, so watching your favourite movies and shows is an absolute pleasure with the full[…]
As great as Mac OS X has become over the years, it is not immune to issues with its inner workings. And when there are issues that are preventing you from running your system properly, or even booting, we need to revert to some boot-time diagnostics. With Lion, comes the built-in Lion Recovery Tools known[…]
I am by no means a musical artist. Having said that though, like many people, I don’t think that I would get through a day without listening to some jams on my iTunes. So I fully support any product that can make it easier and more accessible for established artists, and especially the newbies, to[…]
If you’ve ever tried to use your external storage between Windows and Mac, you will already know that it is not that simple. Props to AllNewsMac Here’s why: Mac OS X Snow Leopard and Lion (and Mountain Lion?) can read drives formatted as NTFS, but cannot write to them. As we know, NTFS is the[…]
As technology has advanced over the years, each new addition or change creates a major headache for network admins. And in this day in age, bring-your-own-device (BYOD) is becoming all the more popular, allowing businesses to cut down on their technological investments, and reducing the risks involved substantially. Being a network admin, I can vouch[…]