Apps on your Mac you may have missed

Go to Finder and select Applications; in addition to any apps that you may have installed, there are many others including:

Dashboard

Go to System Preferences >
Mission control > Show Dashboard

or to display apps press
fn + F12 keys

 

Web Browsers

Safari, Chrome and Firefox are but three of the web browsers that run on the Apple Mac and iPad. All have their adherents, but Safari, being built into the Apple OS and iOS systems has some advantages.

Viruses in the news

The media has been full of news about the so-called NSA (US National Security Agency) leaked virus and the devastating effect it has had on many services across the the world, including the Ransomware type of attacks on certain NHS IT systems. It seems that only MS Windows computers are affected.

Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan

Apple’s OS X  ‘El Capitan’ was introduced in September 2015 and has left many of us wondering whether to take the plunge and install it.  Often, the advice is to wait until most of the bugs and security issues have been ironed out – there have been five updates now, the latest being version 10.11.5, so we could give it a try.