Search the Mac Shack Solutions Archives

You can get a lot of information about Mac solutions by searching the Mac Shack Solutions Archives. Many links to applications and custom UTSA solutions are linked from the Archives, and you can search either by name or by description. Give it a try!

Mac OS X updates released yesterday

Several Mac OS X system updates were released yesterday. Choose “Software Update…” from the Apple menu in Mac OS X to see if any are needed for your system, or visit the Apple Software Downloads site for more information.

Microsoft Office Updates released this week

Microsoft Office for Mac OS X were released this week. Please see our Office Updates page for details.

Customizing Mac Mouse Acceleration

My first computer was a new Mac running Classic System 7.2. The first time I tried using a 3rd party mouse with my Mac, I suspected I would never again be able to routinely use a Mac mouse, because the 3rd party mouse I used happened to be a Kensington, and the ability to configure [...]

Links from Bob “Dr. Mac” LeVitus presented at last week’s UTHSCSA Tex-MUG meeting

Thanks, Dr. Mac!
URLs for Tex-MUG 4/19/12
Lion Tips and Tricks:
http://www.macworld.com/rc/osx/lion.html
http://www.tuaw.com/2011/07/20/links-to-all-our-lion-tips-in-one-convenient-place/
http://www.liontricks.net/
Search the web and Wikipedia straight from Spotlight
OS X Lion: Fourteen Lion-taming Tips
25 Mac OS X Lion tips and tricks: 1-12
25 Mac OS X Lion tips and tricks: Mac tips for OS X Lion: 13-25
gizmodo.com/5822946/the-os-x-lion-survival-guide
Macworld Lion Tips Audio:
http://www.macworld.com/article/161903/2011/08/lion_tips.html
Lion Recovery Disk Assistant:
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1433
Lion Tweaks (link to zip archive [...]

Microsoft Office Update released yesterday

Update: 14.2.0 has been replaced by 14.2.1. See the post linked below.
An update to version 14.2.0 for Microsoft Office 2011 was release yesterday. See our Microsoft Office update post for more information.

Worried about the Flashback malware?

Update 4-17-12
Apple has release a standalone application for removing Flashback.
You may also want to check for the newly discovered Sabpub trojan.
Update: 4-13-12
Apple Java for OS X Lion 2012-003 - Java updater for Lion and Apple Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 8 - Java update for Snow Leopard were released yesterday to provide removal [...]