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.
You might already be used to the Genius feature in iTunes to help you develop playlists or even find similar music, but now Apple has added Genius feature on the iPhone/iPod Touch to help you sift through the thousands of apps available. Like the Genius feature in iTunes, this will look at the apps installed and make recommendations to what else you might link.
iTunes 9 was released this past Wednesday and it adds many new features, but our favorite addition is the ability to manage your iPhone/iPod Touch applications directly from within iTunes. Many frustrating hours will be saved by no longer having to move apps one-by-one on your device.
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.