Review: Push Notification is Live with Beejive IM 3.0
Here it is, Beejive 3.0 with Push Notification for the iPhone! We discuss some of its basic changes and give you the pros and cons of their latest release.
Disk Utility: Trouble Formatting or Erasing that Windows PC Hard Drive?
So you are trying to format a drive you know is setup for PC or Windows. You keep getting an error stating Disk Erase failed, or /dev/rdisk1s1: partition size not a multiple of 4K. Its not so much an error, but rather a common oversight.
Photoshop CS4 Disable Canvas Rotation (Zoom & Rotate) via Trackpad Plug-in for Mac
Apple worked closely with Adobe during the development of Photoshop CS4 in order to take advantage of the new multitouch gestures supported by the new Macbook Pro and Air systems. Anyone who has editing in Photoshop with their trackpad will soon notice how easy it is to accidentally activate the Canvas Rotation and begin rotating and zooming your image.
How to Setup Remote Access via VNC – Mac Based Remote Desktop for Mac PC Linux iPhone
How to configure your Macintosh for Remote Access with VNC in order to allow Remote Desktop access from your Mac, PC, Linux Distro, or even iPhone. Additionally we cover Dynamic DNS setup, and DHCP reservations to use in conjunction with your Remote Desktop setup.
PC to Mac: Using Terminal to Fix Multiple Locked Files and Folders At Once
You might find your old PC data to have tons of random Locked files and folders in Mac OS X. Terminal comes to the rescue with chflags command that will help us unlock the file/folder by removing the locks in masses.
Expose and Spaces: Effectively using your Macs Screen with Spaces
Spaces and Expose, a must have for ALL macs. These two settings will greatly increase your productivity on your mac. Allowing you to quickly switch to dedicates spaces/desktops with shortcuts or active corners setup with Expose. We will also cover how to assign application to spaces and even use mouse buttons to quickly switch spaces.
Simple Hard Drive Cloning/Backup with Carbon Copy Cloner
Owning a mac is great, mostly because of the plethora of simple, and effective tools that can often be had for free. Carbon Copy Cloner is an excellent example. This essential tool allows you to make exact (bootable) clones/backups of your hard drives. Some of the key features include, block level disk to disk clones, scheduling, network based backups, bootable disks, and fast incremental backups.
Lock your Mac and Display Fast User Switching Screen on Idle
Since I have converted from PC to Mac I have missed the function in Windows that automatically locks the computer and prompt you back to the account login screen. There are various ways to do this on your Mac, however my requirements were the following:
Review: iPhoto Tool – Duplicate Annihilator and Thumbnail Annihilator
iPhoto can get sloppy with duplicate images, or even thumbnails. Especially for those who migrated from PC to Mac and used the auto import function of iPhoto. Brattoo Propagando has you covered with their offering called Duplicate Annihilator and Thumbnail Annihilator.
Media: Downloading Pictures and Movies with Image Capture
iPhoto is convenient way to download your photos to your mac, not to mention the default. However many users prefer to download pictures and movies to a folder. Mac has a wonderful utility called Image Capture which will download your photos, movies, and music. Which will allow you to manage your media “the old fashioned way”, I find this handy because I prefer to add images into iPhoto manually while having a backup or originals in one location.
