Lion shipped with a slew of features that brought a lot of the iPad’s user interface to the Mac, specifically Mac OS apps like Mail, Calendar and Contacts. However, not all users may want this new look particularly when it affects applications like Mail which are used religiously everyday. If you would like to bring…Continue Reading
If you’ve been using your Mac for a while and haven’t visited the Trash or deleted old applications you could find yourself with a cluttered hard drive. This is particularly important if you are using an SSD drive where space is extremely expensive. Fortunately there are a ton of things that you can do to…Continue Reading
Do you frequent certain files and folders on your Mac and want to save some time? Customize the Finder Sidebar Finder in Mac OS sports a sidebar on the left which provides you with shortcuts to frequently accessed locations on your Mac. However, if you access a specific folder frequently or want to include other…Continue Reading
Have you ever found that moving icons around on your Mac’s desktop leaves with an unaligned mess of shortcuts and files? This can also happen when you switch monitors or reboot your Mac.To avoid this all you have to do is tell Mac OS to automatically align desktop icons to the grid. Aligning icons to…Continue Reading
Do you use Home Sharing, an Apple TV or other devices to play content from your iTunes library? If so your play counts may be inaccurate. Each time you play a song or video in iTunes, the play count increases by one. This is very helpful when you use a feature like Genius to determine…Continue Reading
Want to find out how well your hard drive will fare while working with video editing applications on your Mac? Looking for an excuse to buy an SSD for your Mac? Download Disk Speed Test. Disk Speed Test by Blackmagic allows you to quickly measure and certify your disk drives for working with video. The application…Continue Reading
Is your Mac booting up slowly? It could be that you are using the new Resume feature in Lion or you simply have a lot of applications that launch at boot up. If your situation is the latter, there’s a very simple solution – disable the applications you’re not using right away from starting at…Continue Reading
If you happen to be the family photographer and find that your iPhoto library is teeming with thousand’s of pictures it may be time create additional libraries to better organize your collections. Events Rock, But Not Enough Events are great to manage photos in iPhoto, but they can get out of hand if you also…Continue Reading
In previous articles I’ve shown you how to back up your Mac with Time Machine and Super Duper, two fantastic approaches to safeguarding files from your Mac. In this guide I will show you yet another application that will enable you to keep your files secured on external hard drives and network locations. Carbon Copy…Continue Reading
In Lion Apple introduced a new feature which allows users to associate their Apple ID’s with their user accounts on the Mac. This new feature allows for Apple ID authentication of files in Mac OS X. This makes it a more robust and secure method of sharing files using Macs. To learn how to associate…Continue Reading
One of Lion’s new features brings custom colors to desktop backgrounds in Mac OS X. In previous versions you were only allowed to use one of the provided solid colors which didn’t really give users many options when it came to customizing the background’s color. Luckily Lion takes care of that and in this guide…Continue Reading
If you use Mac OS Xs Mail app to manage your email you may find the default font size for messages and the message list is too small. Fortunately there are plenty of options to customize the font in Mail. In this guide I will show you how to modify Mail’s font to suite your…Continue Reading
Although Resume in Mac OS X Lion seems like a novel concept, it can be rather annoying especially if you are not used to it and your apps don’t support it. For those of you that don’t know what Resume is, here’s the low-down, the rest can skip the following paragraphs and learn how to…Continue Reading
If you’re building up an extensive collection of movies in the new Blu-ray format, chances are that you’ve spent a couple of bucks putting it together. To help protect that small fortune that you call a movie collection, there are a couple of apps out there that will help you backup these discs so that…Continue Reading
If you are looking for a quick, easy and FREE method to convert your favorite movies and TV shows to a format you can take with you anywhere, you need to check out BDlot Video Converter. BDlot Video Converter is part of a greater suite of applications that allows you to convert videos to any…Continue Reading
With the imminent launch of iOS 5 for the iPhone and the iPad, Apple is moving forward with its new music offering for iTunes, Match. iTunes Match stores your entire music library in iCloud (another new service from Apple debuting this fall). When you store your music in iCloud you can access it from anywhere…Continue Reading
One of the settings I always enjoyed in Outlook is the ability to customize work hours so that my available time (work time) would appear on the calendar as a reminder not to schedule anything past a certain time. Google has taken this concept event further and now allows users to hide those morning and…Continue Reading
Just the other day I needed to print a monthly calendar in Mac OS X and realized that I had never done it before. When I opened the print dialog box I was amazed at the number of options available to print a calendar in iCal. So I decided to write this guide to help…Continue Reading
Have you ever found yourself looking for a particular set of files that are either named similarly or are of the same file type? Rather than perform a search in Mac OS to locate these files each time you want to access them, you have the option of creating a Smart Folder to simplify this…Continue Reading
