Is your Mac acting just…odd? Stuff like drives not appearing, screens not adjusting correctly, Bluetooth problems, AirPort non connecting? Maybe your fan is running ...

Is your Mac acting weird or crashing? Are the indicators and lights malfunctioning? Does it refuse to charge properly? Is the operating system acting sluggish? The answer to these problems could be an ...

"PRAM" (Parameter RAM) consists of a small chip of memory, which contains hardware parameters that the machine can use before the system is loaded. This information includes system volume, screen ...

The system-wide spell check in OS X has been a welcome addition to the Mac platform, and many developers have implemented it in their programs. However, in some instances this feature may suddenly ...

Apple computers provide two main ways to reset them: by resetting the parameter random-access memory or the system management controller. Both options control various aspects of a Mac's hardware ...

A continuing thread in an Apple discussion board says that Windows running in the Boot Camp utility can sometimes "pervert" certain settings stored in the Intel-Mac's parameter RAM and interfere with ...

Having issues with how your Apple computer is behaving? How do you know you need to reset SMC or PRAM? There a few telltale signs and these vary slightly between the SMC and PRAM. The reset process is ...

I've got a sound problem which I think might be rooted in some funky PRAM settings. I'd like to reset PRAM and OpenFirmware, but I only have a Bluetooth keyboard. Is it possible to do a defaults write ...

Sometimes it was necessary to carry out a little maintenance on your Apple MacBook or iMac computers if you feel they are not quite running as well as they could. One method on older Macs was to carry ...