How To Review Your iPhone Apps
I've been buying different applications for my iPhone and would like to start leaving some ratings and reviews of those that I like.
Date: 12-17-2009
Quickly Put Your Mac Computer To Sleep
With all of us being so energy-conscious these days, it natural to want to have your Mac use as little power as possible.
Date: 12-03-2009
Quickly Put Your Mac Computer To Sleep
With all of us being so energy-conscious these days, it natural to want to have your Mac use as little power as possible. But when you get up to walk away from your computer, even for a few minutes, it continues to use power to light up your screen, optimize your hard drive and perform low-level tasks while it waits for you to touch your mouse or keyboard again. Isn't there a solution?
Date: 12-03-2009
How To Play Xvid Files On Your Mac
A friend of mine sent me a copy of his film on the computer as an "AVI" file and Quicktime complains and I can't watch it on my Mac.
Date: 11-19-2009
Valuable Lessons Learned From Previous Mac Failures
Never let it be said that Steve Jobs isn't a pretty smart dude. With the iPhone, Jobs took a massive lesson delivered to him at the hands of Bill Gates and delivered back to Microsoft a complete coup d'etat..
Date: 11-04-2009
How To Get A Refund On iPhone Apps
What a gaffe! I wanted to get more information about the new TomTom turn-by-turn directions application for the Apple iPhone 3GS and clicked “Buy App” instead of the icon for the app. Next thing I know, I’ve just paid $99 for this app and it’s downloading onto my computer. Not good, not good at all! What can I do?
Date: 10-23-2009
Choosing The Correct Mac For Long Foreign Trips
Hi Dave. My contract with my current client ends in three weeks. Since I'll finally be a free agent I am going to spend several months in west Africa as I have a good friend living in Sierra Leone.
Date: 10-08-2009
Macs And Their Enhanced PDF Capabilities
I teach classes and like to have my handouts be as short as possible, so I will often print them "two up" or "three up" from PowerPoint or Keynote on my Mac OS X system.
Date: 09-23-2009
Snow Leopard Purrs It’s Way To A Mac Near You
Mac users can finally rejoice belling the all new cat. Apple released Mac OS X, Snow Leopard on August 28th. You may check the system requirements as laid out by Apple.
Date: 09-02-2009
Creating A Smart Album In iPhoto
I've finally imported a few years worth of photographs into iPhoto and it's very cool - I'm having fun organizing things - but in addition to how it has organized everything, I'd also like to have convenient access to photos by when they were taken.
Date: 08-20-2009
How To Retouch Photo In iPhoto
I've been organizing photos with Apple's iPhoto program since I first got my iMac, but I've wished for a long time that there was a way to tweak the pictures, rather than just organize them.
Date: 08-05-2009
How To Remove Yahoo Widgets From Your Desktop
I have mac os x 10.4.11 - There are two yahoo widgets on my desktop–analog clock and weather that I did not put there and I can't get rid of–I need the Jobulator one that I did put on there…
Date: 07-23-2009
How To Set Up Time Machine On Your Mac
Every time I buy a new computer, I go through extraordinary levels of hassle copying files from the old computer to the new one, and this time I am determined to do something smarter.
Date: 07-02-2009
How To Set Up Time Machine On Your Mac
Every time I buy a new computer, I go through extraordinary levels of hassle copying files from the old computer to the new one, and this time I am determined to do something smarter.
Date: 06-15-2009
How To Completely Reformat and Reinstall OSX
I just completely reformatted and restored my laptop and am now hitting the error "This backup is too large for the backup volume.
Date: 06-05-2009
Apple Again Delves Into Gaming Through Apple TV
I'm not the only person to remember the ill-fated Apple Pippin, launched in conjunction with gaming company Bandai in the mid-1990s. Yes, you might be surprised, not everything with an Apple logo on it is a success..
Date: 05-14-2009
How To Read Disks On MacBook Air
I’m helping my Dad out with installing some software on his MacBook Air but since he didn’t spend the money to buy the additional external CDROM drive, I’m kind of stuck.
Date: 04-30-2009
How To Add Digital TV To A Mac Mini Continued
For those of you that just want to know if it works or not (see part 1), the answer is yes. Yes! It works! Gladly, I didn't order the various hardware and software components for nothing.
Date: 04-15-2009
How To Add Digital TV To A Mac Mini
I'm probably one of the last Mohicans, but I still watch tv on an old 4:3 television set. It isn't even worthy of calling it a set. It's just an old CRT tube.
Date: 04-02-2009
Successfully Upgrading Time Capsule On Your Mac
I've become a big fan of my Apple Time Capsule. WIth the Time Machine backup software, it lets me keep all of my computers backed up without ever having to think about it, which is awesome!
Date: 03-19-2009
Edit And Share Your Photos With Picasa
It is that time again where I get to blog about that series of Mac Tips I started a little while ago, talking about some of the most helpful and resourceful productivity tools...
Date: 02-26-2009
Burning A CD In ITunes For Mac
My kids are really into High School Musical and Miley Cyrus, to the point where we bought them the soundtrack and they promptly broke the CD squabbling over it.
Date: 02-12-2009
How To Delete Files Completely From Your Mac
A friend showed me how she can recover deleted files on her Mac OS X system using some utility or the other and it got me to thinking... how do I delete files on my own Mac so that she - or anyone else - can't recover them later?
Date: 01-22-2009
Some Very Exciting News From Macworld
Maybe you couldn't make it to MacWorld this week but that doesn't mean you can't be privy to some of the cool announcements being rolled out for Mac and iPhone users... read on for several interesting roll-outs announced today.
Date: 01-08-2009
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