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Monthly To-Dos

Keeping your Mac in tip-top operating shape is pretty easy. This video will show you how to rebuild the permissions database and verify the integrity of your hard drive. I ask my clients to do this on a monthly basis.

Repairing permissions can give your system a big performance boost if it is feeling sluggish. We will cover the why’s of permissions in a later article. Verifying the hard drive can tell you if there is anything wrong on the drive. While it is rare that it finds anything, it would be better to know earlier rather than later. A drive failure can lead to the loss of all the data on your computer. Drive failure is a matter of when, not if! But for you, it will never be a problem because you are making all of those great backups….

You are making backups, aren’t you?

Ok, well, let’s cover repairing permissions this week and we’ll talk about backups next week.

Enjoy!

Dana

Wow! The new site is coming along swimmingly. Hope you like the new look. I will have some new video up this evening or tomorrow about how to run your preventative maintenance routines.

The old content should be up later this week too and you will be able to log in and watch all the classic lessons. Stay tuned!

Templates in Zencart

I run the bookstore for my church. I created a website to handle the online side of the business a while back and it got hacked. Recently, I have switched to Zen Cart as my shopping cart software. It was easy to install and has a lot of great features.

One of the things I wanted to learn about quickly was how to set up my own look and feel. One of the ways to accomplish this is through the template system. I needed to go through the tutorial of the forum at Zen Cart and thought I would post this for all of us who learn things by imitation.

Enjoy!

Zen Cart Forum Tutorial is at: http://tutorials.zen-cart.com/index.php?article=142

How to Use a Macintosh

Well, here we are, ready to take on a new challenge… learning the Macintosh.

You’re gonna love these lessons because I take you step by step through every single aspect of the Macintosh. These lessons were originally developed for my Mom because she wanted things in small increments with a step one, step two, step three approach. This first lesson is just the welcome and we will build from here!

Hi gang!

I am putting a new web site for us that is gonna be way cool. Please be patient, I’m typin’ as fast as I can.