Sophos Antivirus is a well respected and popular antivirus app for the Mac. It is available as both a free and paid-for app, and is generally accepted to be good at detecting viruses on your Mac. Reasons to Remove Sophos Antivirus from Your Mac can be: You may decide that you have little need for an Antivirus on a Mac because of how unlikely it is to infect a Mac with a … [Read more...] about How to Uninstall Sophos Mac
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How To Uninstall Silverlight in Mac OS X El Capitan, Yosemite, Mavericks
Silverlight was Microsoft’s alternative to Flash and Microsoft announced that they were to discontinue and stop active development on Silverlight. Microsoft didn’t create an Uninstaller app for removing Silverlight, to remove Silverlight you need to manually delete files. … [Read more...] about How To Uninstall Silverlight in Mac OS X El Capitan, Yosemite, Mavericks
How to Enable Single Application Mode in Mac OS X Yosemite
These are instructions on how to enable Single Application Mode in Mac OS X Yosemite. Single Application Mode automatically hides all other open applications when you select an application from your dock. Step 1. Open Terminal.app from your Applications>Utilities folder. … [Read more...] about How to Enable Single Application Mode in Mac OS X Yosemite
How to Disable Smart Quotes and Dashes in Mac OS X Yosemite
These are instructions on how to disable curly quotes or smart quotes in Mac OS X Yosemite. Curly quotations can become quite a problem if you are typing code into an text editor. They can easily be disabled by following these steps: Step 1. Go to System Preferences … [Read more...] about How to Disable Smart Quotes and Dashes in Mac OS X Yosemite
How To Clear or Flush ARP Cache in OS X Yosemite
The Address Resolution Protocol (or ARP) is a very important part of IP networking. ARP is used to connect OSI Layer 3 (Network) to OSI Layer 2 (Data-Link). This means to communicate with any device on your network, you must have the Ethernet MAC address for that device. If the device is not on your LAN, you go through your default gateway (your router). In this case, your … [Read more...] about How To Clear or Flush ARP Cache in OS X Yosemite
How To Install Windows 10 TP on Mac to Test, Without Ruining Your OS X
Microsoft has made available a Windows 10 Technical Preview for anyone to download. Microsoft warns that you should install the preview only if you: ● Want to try out software that’s still in development and like sharing your opinion about it. ● Don’t mind lots of updates or a UI design that might change significantly over time. ● Really know your way around a PC and feel … [Read more...] about How To Install Windows 10 TP on Mac to Test, Without Ruining Your OS X
How to Reset NVRAM on a Mac
A small amount of your computer’s memory, called “non-volatile random-access memory” or NVRAM, stores certain settings in a location that OS X can access quickly. The settings that are stored in NVRAM depend on the type of Mac you're using, and the types of devices connected to it. Information stored in NVRAM include speaker volume, screen resolution, startup disk selection … [Read more...] about How to Reset NVRAM on a Mac
How to Disable App Nap Per-App in OS X Yosemite
App Nap feature was designed to cut CPU and other computer resources to power-hungry applications when those applications are not currently in use. It's one of several OS X features that has helped increase the battery life on Mac portables, but unfortunately, this feature isn't without downsides. If you're noticing that applications don't complete their tasks in a reasonable … [Read more...] about How to Disable App Nap Per-App in OS X Yosemite
How to Disable Calls on Mac and iPad
Apple gave us possibility to answer a phone call on Mac, or even on iPad with iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite. In theory everything works OK and it's helpful and great feature, but in reality you end up getting three rings for every call, each slightly time-shifted from the rest and if you answer on iPhone it still rings on mac. You can disable calls on iPad or Mac to eliminate one … [Read more...] about How to Disable Calls on Mac and iPad
How to Check DNS Cache Details in OS X Yosemite
If you are changing or are going to change DNS, and you want to see some details about what is currently cached. Step 1. Open Terminal.app Step 2. To get UDNS cache statistics insert this command to terminal sudo discoveryutil udnscachestats … [Read more...] about How to Check DNS Cache Details in OS X Yosemite