Mac 101

September 14, 2010 in How-To by Bob Faulhaber

Mac OS X Server’s iCal Server was introduced in Leopard Server as a centralized solution for scheduling meetings, events and resources. With Snow Leopard, group and shared calendars were introduced, along with push notification of event updates and the ability to coordinate events with external users.

If you are looking for a calendaring solution for your business or company and don’t want to be locked into proprietary solutions from Microsoft, Novell or other companies, iCal is based on open standards, so you can assured that iCal will work with many other applications and across platforms.

August 10, 2010 in How-To by Bob Faulhaber

Do you have multiple Macs and need to back them up to a central managed location? Well, Time Machine Server allows you to accept Time Machine backups from client machines on your network and it’s simple to setup.

December 2, 2009 in Tips & Tricks by Bob Faulhaber

Did you know that you can get more detailed information from the icons on your menu bar? By using the Option key when clicking on the various system icons, you’ll get more detailed and valuable information than by just clicking them.

September 9, 2009 in How-To, Tips & Tricks by Bob Faulhaber

One of the most exciting improvements in Snow Leopard is Automator. Automator lets you create services, workflows, applications and folder actions to help automate tasks and activities. Using OS X’s extensive library of built-in actions you can create just about any type of service, workflow or action.

August 31, 2009 in How-To, Tips & Tricks by Bob Faulhaber

An often forgotten feature and underused feature of OS X is the Services menu, found in the Application menu of most applications; it has powerful automation functionality that will make you life easier. Snow Leopard brings lots of improvements to the Services menu that can streamline many of your computing tasks.

July 29, 2009 in Reviews by Bob Faulhaber

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 13, 2009 in Reviews by Bob Faulhaber

One of the handy features that was released in Leopard was Quick Look, which provided a preview technology that displayed more descriptive thumbnails.

July 6, 2009 in Reviews by Bob Faulhaber

Both Stacks and Trash get some new functionality and features, with Trash bringing back a feature from OS 9, while Stacks introduces folder navigation.

June 30, 2009 in Reviews by Bob Faulhaber

Snow Leopard, which will be released this fall, will have a bunch of new features. While many of the improvements are “under the hood”, one of the visible improvements will be the new UI that Snow Leopard will sport.