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Portable Applications for your USB Stick
What is a portable program ? : A portable program is a piece of software that you can carry around with you on a portable device and use on any other computer. It can be your email program, your browser, system recovery tools or even an operating system. The coolest part about it is that [...]
Continue reading...How to password-protect your Mac
29. November 2008
Here are a few ways to password-protect your Mac, and keep it safe from prying eyes. 1. Open System Preferences: Accounts: Login options Change Automatic login to Disabled. This will require a correct login after starting up the machine. 2. Open System Preferences: Security: General Check “Require password to wake this computer from sleep or [...]
Continue reading...Two monitors, one computer
29. September 2008
If you ever had two monitors on your desktop computer, and that could include your laptop when it is on the desk, you would never go back. First of all, on a Mac, all you need is a second video card, which comes with most towers and laptops. So, let’s say you had two 19 [...]
Continue reading...Disaster Recovery Planning
26. September 2008
Disaster Recovery Planning is like an insurance policy. I’m in good health, nothing bad ever happens to me, if bad happens I will recover just as fast as everyone else. Well, if you say that you fail to understand insurance. We all get sick sometime, our facility can catch on fire, a flood can prevent [...]
Continue reading...How to Force Quit an Application
19. September 2008
If your Mac has an application that is frozen, or you have the dreaded spinning beach ball, you probably have an app that will not quit gracefully. Normally the protected memory feature of OS X allows an application to crash and you can keep working — no restart required. Hit the keystroke combination of Option-Apple-Esc [...]
Continue reading...Tips & Tricks: open applications
18. September 2008
Number One tip: stop quitting your most-used applications! I see scores of people use their PCs. Almost everyone will do the following: Open their browser. Quit (close) their browser. Open their email program. Quit their email program. Open Word. Quit Word. Then they repeat this process. Over and over. STOP. Here’s the tip: keep your [...]
Continue reading...Mac running slow? Check your Memory
18. September 2008
I find myself sharing this tip every week. When your Mac has been used for several days/weeks, the consistent opening and closing of applications chip away at your available memory (RAM). Soon you will be out of what is referred to as “contiguous memory”, and the machine will start using the much slower virtual memory [...]
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Macintosh News
- Stange facts about the big game - Montreal Gazette
- iPad 3 absent from Super Bowl 2012 but release date soon plus iOS 5.1 - Beatweek Magazine
- Poll: Why Will You Watch the Super Bowl? - Patch.com
- Apple's Corporate Imitators are Borrowing, Not Stealing - Cult of Mac
- Dear Super Bowl Advertisers: No Spoilers! - New Yorker (blog)
- Apple already investigating Mac OS X 10.7.3 CUI, application crashing issues - 9 to 5 Mac
- After 1984: The Super Bowl Ad That Almost Killed Apple - Forbes
- Will Apple Kill the Macintosh? - PC Magazine
- Apple Beats Own Sales Records of iPad, iPhone, Mac. - X-bit Labs
- Cube: The Apple Macintosh of 3D printers has finally arrived - DVICE
1. December 2008
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