When typically looking at pictures on a cell phone, whether taken with the phone or downloaded from your home computer, the resolution often leaves much to be desired. Technically, it’s because of the number of pixels that manufacturers squeezed into the small phone screens. When compared to the iPhone 3G, which has a display screen…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

I am a dedicated user of tools like Billings, Informant HD and ToodleDo to manage work projects and my life. However, when I stumbled upon Intuit’s free Weave app for the iPhone, I wished I had found it sooner. Although it is not a Billings replacement, it does heck of a job in maintaining project…Continue Reading

Do you have an extensive media library in iTunes? If you do, chances are that sharing your content in your home’s network beats having duplicate content on multiple computers. If you find yourself in this predicament and would like to share your iTunes library with others on your network follow the instructions below as this…Continue Reading

Do you listen to your iTunes library and sometimes find yourself thinking, “Didn’t I listen to that song a second ago?” If this is the case chances are that you have duplicates in your iTunes library. This can happen if your ripped a CD twice or if you merge one library with another, most times…Continue Reading

With rumors of Amazon’s tablet launch in September running amuck on the web, I figured I give my two cents on this supposed iPad competitor. We all know that Motorola has had a tough time selling Xooms, Samsung has had poor performance with the Tab and now HP decided to pull out of the tablet…Continue Reading

Do you speak Afrikaans? How about Assamesse? Chances are you don’t. Well your Mac does a great job of offering these two languages and more…all at a cost of a couple hundred megabytes of space. Storage Space is Limited Whether your Mac runs on an SSD or a regular hard drive, storage space is always…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

If your life revolves around a calendar, chances are that you probably would like to keep your family and friends updated about upcoming events. This is specially helpful if you have a large extended family with a lot of events. With iCal on your Mac you have the ability to publish/share your calendars with whomever…Continue Reading

In Mac OS Lion, Apple introduced Mission Control which is a mix of Spaces and Expose. In Mission Control you have the ability to create multiple desktops that allow you to group applications into different desktops. So, if you are working on a graphic design project you can have a desktop that contains photoshop, an…Continue Reading

If your Mac OS X Lion hard drive fails and you wish to restore a Time Machine backup to a hard drive without Lion, your only chance of survival is to stop by a Genius Bar or use an external recovery disk. However, chances are that you don’t have an external recovery disk because your…Continue Reading

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