Silver Barrel Solutions

Over the past few years we’ve compiled a list of some useful computer tips and solutions and thought we would share them. Please let us know if you have any tips that you’d like to ad.

• How, when, & why to reset the PRAM & SMC on your Mac
  • http://thenextweb.com/lifehacks/2010/12/04/how-when-why-to-reset-the-pram-smc-on-your-mac/
• Apple Hardware Test
  • http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1509
• Macbook stopped syncing iWork files with iCloud
  • http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/59757/how-do-i-force-keynote-to-sync-with-icloud
• Gestures stop working on Mac. This occurs after the computer wakes from sleeping.
  • Run this command at termnial: killall -kill Dock
• Our preferred offsite backup solution
  • http://www.crashplan.com
• Our preferred local backup solution
  • http://www.apple.com/ca/timecapsule/
• Favourite password manager
  • https://agilebits.com/onepassword/mac