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
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
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
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
One of LIon’s new features, the ability to preview an item from a search result makes it easy to identify the file you are looking for, but what if you wanted to find its location? Unless you open the file in the search results window there’s really no easy way to determine the file’s original…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
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
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
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
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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