Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. If you find your MacBook acting strangely, and seemingly for ...

Sometimes it was necessary to carry out a little maintenance on your Apple MacBook or iMac computers if you feel they are not quite running as well as they could. One method on older Macs was to carry ...

We previously covered a group of issues where the fans on some iMacs rev to inordinate speeds during startup. For G5-based iMacs exhibiting this issue, one of our listed solutions was resetting of the ...

All computers act up from time to time. When things go awry, my first recommendation is always to simply shut down and reboot: Often, this simple power cycle fixes the issue. However, you might run ...

Our tutorial "Fixing Wireless connectivity (including AirPort) problems: Dropouts, slow speed, more" contains a wealth of information for resolving various AirPort/wireless issues, and recently came ...

My wife's 2012 Retina MacBook Pro 13" (the first generation of retina) is dead - won't charge, won't power on, no light on the MagSafe connector. The keystroke SMC reset doesn't work. She took it to ...