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Secret Tip: My Apple Mac Book is running SLOW

Ok so you decided to make the jump from a Windows PC to an Apple Mac.

 

Everything was going fine until you started to notice that little pinwheel/beach ball that comes up when your computer is trying to tell you to hold on a darn second.

 

I don't know about you but that drives me nuts like that Sham Wow guy, lol

 

Slap Chop Sham Wow guy

So for one, I went to an authorized Apple repair shop called Di-No computer repair in Pasadena Ca to get some more ram. I bumped up from 1 gb to the max allowed in my mac book to 2 gb. I needed to do this because I needed the extra ram because I needed to install Windows into my Mac due to the fact that some Real Estate related programs only run on Windows.

 

But before I left the tech also showed me a little trick to get the Mac to perform quicker just like the day you bought it. 

 

This will work on not only Mac Books but all Apples running Mac OSX. 

 

Once every month you should perform a routine called: Repairing Disk Permissions. Just follow these simple steps:

  1. On your hard drive locate and open the "Application" folder then open the "Utilities" folder inside the Application folder.
  2. Launch (start the program) "Disk Utilities" and select the name of your hard drive in the left window pane.
  3. In the right window pane select the button that says "Repair Disk Permissions"
  4. Wait for your computer to finish this process, Then quit Disk Utilities. 
After this simple procedure your Mac should be quicker that before. 

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About the author:

Winston Westbrook is licensed by the California Department of Real Estate license #01200483

If you are looking to purchase or sell real estate in Victorville, Hesperia or Apple Valley we welcome you to call us today.

We can help you with finding financing for your new home. Good or bad credit is ok. Call today 

 

1 comment • Winston Westbrook • May 14 2009 12:53PM

FREE: Historical Aerial Photographs from the 1930's to the present

What if you had Google maps back in the 1930's??

You'd probably see nothing but crops of corn and farms everywhere depending on where you lived.

I came across this website that provides free online access to aerial photography from the 1930's all the way till the present from all over the United States. It's pretty neat to see how cities have progressed and grown over the years. I checked out Victorville Ca and it's practically night and day with how much the city has grown. 

Search your area by either:

 

  • Address 
  • Latitude and Longitude

 

Check it out when you have a chance. Might be neat to add it along with your next listing presentation.

 



Winston Westbrook is a licensed California Real Estate Broker and Notary Public servicing the cities of Victorville, Adelanto, Hesperia, Apple Valley and the surrounding Victor Valley High Desert communities of Southern California in the County of San Bernardino. 

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11 comments • Winston Westbrook • March 10 2009 01:06AM