Are you running out of disk space on your Mac? If you’ve been using your Mac for a while you’ve undoubtedly gathered tons of files and applications. Ranging from files that you’ve created to photos, music, software downloads, application support files and more. There are tools and utilities that can help you figure out what’s on your hard disk and delete what you don’t need anymore.
The Mac mini provides an excellent platform for building a Home Theater PC or Media Center computer, but what software do you need to complete the package and give you the flexibility to record television programs and view Internet content on your schedule. I’ll describe the software suite that I’ve assembled and am using on my Mac mini-based Media Center computer.
If you had high hopes when Apple first released the AppleTV and using it as your HTPC or media center, you’ve probably been disappointed. There’s been much talk about using the Mac Mini, but how do you do that and what components do you need? I’ll discuss both the hardware and software that will turn your Mac mini into the ultimate HTPC.
If you use USB flash drives to store and transport files there’s always a concern if those files carry personal or confidential information and you lose the flash drive. Well, there’s a simple way to protect those files and information should you lose the USB flash drive.
If you have used computers for any period of time, you should have heard the expression “There are two kinds of computer users -those that have had a hard drive failure and those that will”. If you haven’t experienced a failure consider yourself lucky, but your days could be numbered. A reliable backup strategy will make recovery easier, less nerve-wracking and ensure that you won’t potentially lose days of sleep.
Would you like to record HDTV video streams directly on your Mac without having to jump through hoops? Well, using a handy little utility and a Firewire cable, along with having a properly equipped cable box you can do just that and get full HD quality video captures.
Google recently announced that they will be offering free Wi-Fi at 47 airports during this holiday season until January 15th, 2010. Sounds like a good deal to make your time waiting for your flights or hours stuck at the airport more productive and saving you money, but what are the risks and how should you protect yourself?
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If you use 1Password across multiple computers keeping your 1Password keychain in sync automatically can be done with a variety of tools, such as SugarSync, ChronoSync, Dropbox and even rsync.
Having personally used ChronoSync to keep My Documents folder in sync between my desktop computer and MacBook Pro, I figured using ChronoSync would do the job, but there is truly a better way using Dropbox
Home Sharing is one of the new features that was introduced in iTunes 9 and lets you easily share music and other media files among different computers on your network.
In this post we will highlight the features and how to setup Home Sharing on your network.
How-To: Changing A Username
When users create an account on their Mac, the Home folder is named with the “short” version of the username. Changing it or the login name is not straightforward, but compared to what had to be done prior to Leopard, the procedure is now relatively simple.
