Mac 101

August 18, 2009 in How-To by Bob

Do you want to customize the look and feel of your Finder windows? Text labels too small? Icons too big? It’s easy to make it look exactly as you want.

August 17, 2009 in Reviews by Bob

There are many ways to do screen capture on the Mac, ranging from OS X’s built-in functionality to utilities, such as Skitch. But, if you need a tool that allows you to capture, edit and organize screen captures then Voila from Global Delight is an application you should look at.

August 12, 2009 in Tips & Tricks by Mark

Private Browsing still leaves tracks, we will show you how to easily switch in and out of Private Browsing, and go over a few additional steps for the paranoid people who want to cover their tracks in Safari via Private Browsing shortcuts, confirmation removal, clearing cached data, and excluding cached data in Spotlight searches.

August 11, 2009 in How-To by Mark

In this series we go over how to create DMG disk image artwork for use with your apps or applications. Having a professional looking installation folder is critical to your apps image, and rather simple to achieve good results.

August 10, 2009 in How-To by Bob

Do you use Firefox as your primary desktop browser and need a simple way to sync those bookmarks to your iPhone or iPod Touch? Since Safari is the only browser available on the iPhone or iPod Touch you either need to manually create the bookmarks manually or do without, but there is an easier way.

August 5, 2009 in How-To, Tips & Tricks by Bob

In previous posts we described how to put the current date and time on your desktop, along with the ability to display images, in our example we used a doppler radar image, but what if you want actual weather conditions? Using GeekTool and a Perl script, called yweather, developed by a Google Code user named loudambiance, you can pull weather data from the Yahoo feed and display on your desktop.

August 4, 2009 in How-To by Mark

File security and privacy is important for your sensitive data. The DMG disk image is a versatile tool that allows you to encrypt your data and enable password protection on a virtual disk image. This method allows for more versatility and portability than FileVaults methods of securing entire sections of your hard disk.

July 31, 2009 in Reviews by Bob

Do you use Time Machine? What about an off-site backup? Time Warp (currently in beta) from Jumping Bean Software is a simple to use backup solution that compliments Time Machine to backup your data off-site.

July 29, 2009 in Reviews by Bob

One of the exciting new upgrades in the upcoming release of Snow Leopard will be a vastly improved QuickTime player called QuickTime X. With not only a cleaner interface, but also improved performance and new features to make media viewing and even creation and editing much easier.

July 28, 2009 in How-To, Tips & Tricks by Bob

Do you have a large iTunes music library? Does some of your older music seem to “disappear” from your listening rotation? Well, using Smart Playlists you can organize your music library to keep your listening fresh.