Category Archives: Apple

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OS X App Store is evil – 1-click purchasing the only option

Posted on January 9, 2011

Snow Leopard 10.6.6 has introduced the App Store to Macs, so you can now buy software as easily as you can on your iPhone, iPod and iPad. However, unlike those stores, Apple seem to have enabled 1click purchasing by default. … Continue reading →

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Remote Snow Leopard OS X Sever Support

Posted on January 6, 2011

Just had a trip down memory lane! I got contacted by a colleague in Sussex who was having problems setting up File Sharing on Snow Leopard 10.6 Server. I had some sympathy for him – Apple advertise their server products as … Continue reading →

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Clean MacBook fans to avoid them breaking…

Posted on December 30, 2010

I’ve had a MacBook Pro and a MacBook in the workshop this week, one which was running incredibly hot and noisily, the other with a fan that was basically knackered. Replacing fans in a MacBook of any flavour is relatively … Continue reading →

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Repairing iPhone 4 damaged screens in Bath, Bristol and Wiltshire…

Posted on December 6, 2010

The iPhone 4 is a lovely device, but that steel frame and the double glass front does make it more prone to suffering from shattered glass on the front digitizer. Until recently the cost of the parts was prohibitively expensive; … Continue reading →

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Fixing Problems sending emails via iPhone and Orange

Posted on November 30, 2010

I was with a customer in Bradford on Avon installing their new iMac and they happened to mention to me that they couldn’t send email through their iPhone. They were on Orange. Orange tech support had failed to resolve it, … Continue reading →

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Repairing iMacs with faulty video cards

Posted on November 19, 2010

I’ve just finished repairing an iMac which started to display the dreaded “vertical lines” – a surprisingly common symptom seen on a wide range of Macs that indicates a faulty video card. Typically that means replacing the entire logic board, … Continue reading →

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Apple cancels the XServe

Posted on November 7, 2010

Over the years at Sweet-Apple we’ve been responsible for installing, managing and remotely supporting a number of OS X Server installations for clients in and around Bath and Bristol. A good number of those were running on XServe, Apple’s rack-mounted … Continue reading →

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Disable Java in OS X browsers to avoid Koobface infection

Posted on November 5, 2010

As you may know, there’s been a lot of hot air created recently about the ‘port’ of the Koobface worm so that it can now infect Macs. Whilst it is possible that you might get the malware downloaded onto your … Continue reading →

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Refurb 21″ iMac for 749 pounds – saving 22%

Posted on October 23, 2010

Just a quick heads up – the Apple Refurb Store has a very nice deal on 21.5″ iMacs for £749 inc VAT. Please remember this is for the previous generation model, so you have a Core2 chip rather than the … Continue reading →

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iPhone repairs in Bath and Bristol

Posted on October 18, 2010

Over the last couple of months we’ve been having an increasing number of people contacting us about repairing their damaged iPhone. The most common problem is unsurprisingly a shattered screen. Unfortunately this is one of the most time consuming repairs … Continue reading →

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