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| Video: Create A Bootable USB Drive For Emergencies Posted: 05 Aug 2013 12:15 PM PDT Hey, Mac’s are very reliable. The only component that will fail first is either the battery (in a laptop) or the hard drive. If you have a complete hard drive failure and cannot boot into your Mac, you need to create a bootable USB drive that you can use in those rare but annoying moments. This video will walk you through how to set up the drive. The second half of the video is about how to wipe the USB drive if you ever want it back. To get the latest you can follow MacTricksAndTips on Facebook or Twitter. You can also subscribe to the channel for the latest videos. Creating A Bootable USB DriveI wrote about this article a while ago if you want a more textual version of this video please cast your eyes over this article. I do recommend you set up a USB emergency drive as you never know when you may need it. If you can’t watch the video below you can grab it on youtube. Want to catch up on the latest Tweets about this site, follow me on Twitter. You can like this site on Facebook. |
| Remove Service Menu Scripts and Apps From Your Mac Posted: 05 Aug 2013 11:30 AM PDT Hey, When you right click within Finder there will be an option called Services. Small scripts that speed up your day to day life. These little scripts can also be accessed from the menu bar under Application > Services. They are little programs that do very specific things with bits of data. Over time these services will build up. You will start to grow a collection. At some point you will want to remove them and clean up the Service menu.  The Services list can get quite long after a while. Hide ServicesIf you want to keep a service but want to hide it from view. You can do this from System Preferences. Open it and select the Keyboard Preference Pane. From the Keyboard Shortcuts tab select the Service option from the left column. This is a list of most Services. You can uncheck the ones you don’t want and they will disappear. Note that you may also find some services from the Applications Shortcuts option. You may need to quit System Preferences and the app the service lives in (for example music services within iTunes) for the change to stick.  Hide Services within System Preferences to get rid of them. Delete ServicesThe previous tip hides Services, this is suitable in most cases. However, if you want to delete them you need to use Finder. Open Finder and use the Go > Go To Folder option to open any of the three folders below. These store the services your Mac uses. /System/Library/Services/ /Users/James/Library/Services/ /Library/Contextual Menu Items/ Most third party Services will be located in one of these three folders. You can delete the workflows or services and they will be removed from your Mac. If one is not in this list it is a system Service and need to be hidden using the tip in the previous section. Want to catch up on the latest Tweets about this site, follow me on Twitter. You can like this site on Facebook. |
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