How many times have you scrolled through iPhoto events to find that the photo representing the event has nothing to do with the event itself? Luckily you can change this photo so that the event’s thumbnail or Key photo better reflects the event in iPhoto. In this guide I will show you how to change…Continue Reading
Like most users that upgraded from Snow Leopard to Lion, you probably expected your desktop background to change to the new lion wallpaper introduced in Lion. Unfortunately, unless you did a clean install or bought a new Mac with Lion installed, the default wallpaper will be either the snow leopard or another older Mac OS…Continue Reading
One of the coolest features landing on Spotlight for Mac OS X, aside from searching Wikipeda, is the ability to use Quick Look to preview a result without opening Quick Look. To use this feature simply enter a query in the Spotlight searchbox. When the results appear place your cursor over the result you wish…Continue Reading
Syncing your Yahoo! Mail contacts with your Mac has never been simpler. In the guide below I will walk you through the steps necessary to sync your Yahoo! accounts with Address Book in Mac OS Lion. How to Sync Your Yahoo! Contacts with Lion 1. With Address Book open, click Address Book in the Menu…Continue Reading
If you recently addded your Google account to Lion so that you can sync calendars, email, and notes, you might have noticed that there was no mention of contacts. In order to sync Google contacts to Address Book in Mac OS X Lion you will need to add the account and enable syncronization within the…Continue Reading
If you are someone who relies on the iCal task list to get things done you may be surprised to find that in Lion, the Task list is nowhere to be found. Don’t worry though, your task list is still there, the thing is that Apple decided to rename it Reminders, so if you’re looking…Continue Reading
Although iPhoto does a pretty good job of splitting events when you import photos it is still not perfect. There are several things you can do in order to be more specific about how iPhoto splits events as well as spliting existing events so that your photos are organized more accurately. In this guide we…Continue Reading
If you are a fan of Spotlight on your Mac you’re going to love one of the most useful upgrades to date. The ability to search Wikipedia without opening a browser window. The same Dictionary app that powers all of your synonym and definition inquiries will also power Wikipedia searches on your Mac. This of…Continue Reading
If you’re on this page, chances are that you are annoyed with Apple’s new scrolling feature introduced in Lion. The “natural” scroll direction used in Lion was implemented to mimic the scrolling you normally find in touch devices like the iPad and iPhone. However, unless you are using a trackpad on your Mac, you may…Continue Reading
Reading List is a new feature in Safari for Lion that allows you to save pages from the web to a list that can be viewed at a later time. Think of it as an offline bookmarks list that you can browse at your own leisure. The new feature also allows you to sync the…Continue Reading
If you are looking for an iPad-like experience on your Mac and recently upgraded to Mac OS X Lion, you need to check out full-screen mode. Full Screen mode in Lion removes all the clutter from the Desktop like the menu bar and Dock so that you can work without any of the distraction. The…Continue Reading
Sorting folders and files in Mac OS just became simpler with the latest version of Mac OS X. In Lion Apple introduced a new button on finder which allows you to sort files and folders from any view. In this guide I will show you how to use this new feature to sort files and…Continue Reading
Organizing files on your Mac just became simpler with the latest version of Mac OS. In Lion, Apple introduced a new option in Finder that allows you to combine multiple files or folders into a new folder. This feature works great when you are trying to combine files and folders into several folders that are…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
