Fix: Unable to Check for Update – iPhone

Fix: Unable to Check for Update – iPhone

While searching for an iOS update on your iPhone (Settings -> General -> Software Update), you may receive the following message from Apple about not being able to find an update.





  Unable to Check for Update An error occurred while checking for a software update.   The error is related to the iOS...

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How To: Mac Change SUDO Timeout

How To: Mac Change SUDO Timeout

If you use Terminal and are often using sudo commands, you can increase the sudo password timeout so you aren’t prompted so often to re-enter your password for certain sudo commands. We will need to edit the sudoers file in /etc/. Follow the below steps.   1. Open Terminal (Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal)  2. Type...

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How To: Apple Remote Desktop Quit Application

How To: Apple Remote Desktop Quit Application

If you need to remotely quit an application on a Mac OS X machine that uses Apple Remote Desktop, use a UNIX template command that is build into Apple Remote Desktop by default to quit any application instantly.   Note: In order to send UNIX commands through Apple Remote Desktop, your remote Mac host must have...

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Fix: iTunes Stuck or Not Copying/Syncing Music to iPhone

Fix: iTunes Stuck or Not Copying/Syncing Music to iPhone

Is iTunes refusing to copy music to your iPhone or iOS device? When you drag a song(s) into an iPhone playlist in iTunes, you see the grey circle not move. You are forced to delete the uncopied grey songs and re-add them, but still sometimes the copy does not work. In addition, quitting iTunes and rebooting...

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Fix: Mac X Login Screen Cached or Old Background Picture

Fix: Mac X Login Screen Cached or Old Background Picture

If you recently changed your default Mac OS X desktop picture, you may notice your old background picture still appearing at the Mac OS X login screen (the blurry photo in the background at the default Mac OS X login screen). Sometimes, Mac X will cache your old desktop photo and it will stick on the...

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