How to Undelete files in OS X Mountain Lion and iPad?

Mishandling of data or virus-attack may cause data loss in any device; whether it’s a Mac machine or an iPod/iPad. The process of recovering the deleted/lost files from any hard drive, USB flash drive, iPad Mini or iPod turns out into a big battle, when the data gets deleted from Trash bin. Although there are so many Mac data recovery programs, which are good enough to regain Mac data from the emptied trash, from the formatted drive or even from the lost Mac volume. Before choosing a good one shareware or freeware, take a deep look through the several programs and choose that one, which is able to recover (lost either by drive formatting, volume lost due to virus or power failures) with an easy-to-use GUI.

On the other hand, before going towards buying a brand new reliable software, try the below mentioned manual tricks and enjoy recovering the lost data.

 

How to recover the lost files from OS X Mountain Lion?

How to recover the lost data from Mountain Lion?

If your Mac is running OS X 10.8 and lost important files and applications by mistake then it is easy to recover the lost data. Please make sure before attempting the below mentioned steps that nothing is written on the hard drive after the data loss. For example, any software update or any system files update.

• Very firstly close all the programs, running in Mac machine 

• Simply try to refresh Home Page screen 

• Locate Trash Bin and click on it to open 

• Once the Trash Bin is opened, see the deleted files here 

• Select those files and applications, which you want to regain 

• Now, select ‘Restore’ option 

• Once you click on restore option, a message window will be prompted to confirm about restoring the deleted items back on the desires location 

• Click OK

How to Optimize Mac with SMC Settings Management?

Every user wants to keep his Mac in an optimized form by all means. Millions of OS X users upgrade their machine in order to get a fine tuned Mac. Even, experts also give precious advices to Mac newbies for improving and maintaining performance like maintaining data backup and removal of junks, caches and temporary useless files, widgets etc. But this is not an end point of Mac Optimization process; because Mac users don’t find a speed up Mac even after removing the system junks and rebooting process. Now, the question arises, if Mac is still slow at performing the simple operations after deleting redundant data and useless applications then how Mac can be optimized?

Have you heard about SMC in Mac machine? ‘Resettlement of Mac SMC’ can work well in this situation. No doubt, it’s another type of optimizing slow/non working Mac, but only for Intel Mac users.

What is System Management Controller (SMC)?

SMC is a system which manages a number of core functions depending upon the Mac machine model. For example, it discovers different issues (network connection, Mac cooling fans, power battery and improper light management) and responds at improving Mac efficiency. Moreover, it controls built-in display backlighting, sleep mode, trackpad functions and keyboard lightening too.

How to Resolve WiFi Issues in OS X Yosemite?

Apple has rolled out the latest version OS X Yosemite to improve the working better than from its earlier versions. Since Mac has revealed out Yosemite, Mac users have been facing many issues, what they didn’t face in Mavericks. Issues in downloading and installing it, application update column after upgrading Yosemite version, Screen sharing/File sharing and dropping out of WiFi connection continuously. Although, OS X 10.10.1 has been revealed to fix the above mentioned issues, but still few problems are persisting here. If you are one of those Mac users and facing the WiFi issues after installing Yosemite in Mac then read ahead for the solution. 

How to Resolve WiFi Connection via Wireless Network?

After upgrading to Yosemite, many users are facing an ailment of WiFi connection. Well, here is a solution and in earlier version, you must have tried this method of accessing wireless network via accessing Keychain to troubleshoot WiFi connection issue. 

If Mac is running OS X Yosemite then go to ‘Keychain access’ area and locate ‘Wireless Network‘. Now, double click on this network

Helpful & Trimmed Features of OS X Yosemite 10.10

Till now, Apple has revealed many OS X versions and each has its own merits and demerits. Few features are adorable and few ones are so irritating to opt as per the specifications. As we all know that after working over the Yosemite beta version, now complete OS X Yosemite is among Mac users with its unique features. Many Apple Mac users faced few issues during installation and working with the latest OS X 10.10. But let me share my experience of using the glorious features of Yosemite over here that how things are going on....

 

OS X Yosemite 10.10

How to Remove Items from Dock?

During earlier OS X versions, while removing any item from Dockbar, we used to see the classic puff style. But, now in Yosemite while removing any item from Dock this version prompts ‘Remove’ option firstly for letting the user to know what is about to happen.

Makeover of Safari Browser in OS X Yosemite

Yosemite version has come up with a modulated Safari browser. At one hand, ‘Add Bookmark’ option is now merged into the expanded share menu. And on the other side, entering into a ‘New tab’ allows a user to see Top Sites at a glance with the help of a Toggle button. Working with Safari in Yosemite has improved so much. Lets take a look.

• Just clicking in Address bar in a pop up window can see Grid of Safari Favorites in Yosemite. If you don’t feel comfortable with this new look, make a tweak in the View Settings panel and old look can be obtained.

• Enriched Address bar

In Safari Browser, Address bar works like a 'Spotlight search bar' to display autocomplete sites along with the results from Bing, yahoo, iTunes, Wikipedia etc.

enriched address bar in Safari

• How to keep a single window Private

Working in private tabs is adorable by every computer user. No one wants the browsing history to get tracked by others. To browse important data, entering in different user account by entering login ID and passwords is so pathetic. In Yosemite, just by pressing Shift+Command+N, a new private window can be obtained to browse Internet in you own way.

How to Avoid Data Loss with Cloud Services?

To avoid data loss, usually many of us either create data backup or go for online storage services. Photography lovers are in the habit of accessing the pictures instantly. To get a quick access either they maintain hard drive, CD/DVD or any online storage space. Accessing the important data at any time or at any place in the absence of storage drive/CD/DVD, Cloud services is the best service. This service is provided to the users on demand for storing important media files, photos and other resources. 

These online cloud services have been proven a boon for a business too. It includes online data storage and backup solutions, data base processing, organised technical support, web-based E-mail services and lot more. To avail these easy to use and scalable services to the users, service provider companies provide the hardware and software specifications to its users for meeting the requirements perfectly. On the other hand, cloud service provider companies don’t maintain any separate resource or any IT staff to manage these services at their end.

How to avoid data loss

These cloud services are free to use upto some extent (like Gmail Outlook etc.). Few unique premium features are paid. Now, the question arises, who should use these services and who are the service providers.