Installing Fonts into the Font Book
The Mac OS Font Book Fonts are a fun and easy way to brush up your documents or images. So it is great… [more]
Utility App Daisy Disk (Review)
If you follow TheMacMania already you know that we review Apps for you from time to time. Usually I use… [more]
Create A Birthday Calendar in iCal
If you are like most people, chances are you tend to forget important dates such as birthdays. You have… [more]
Quick Photo Editing With Preview
Preview is one of my favourite applications because I can do a lot with it. I often work with a lot of… [more]
Customizing Your Mail Toolbar
Just like any built-in OS X Lion application, there’s a lot of flexibility in Mail’s toolbar. It’s… [more]
Mac OS X Tips
Installing Fonts into the Font Book
The Mac OS Font Book Fonts are a fun and easy way to brush up your documents or images. So it is great to learn how to install fonts on your Mac. This video shows you quickly how to do that and on the Internet you can find thousands of fonts free available. Installing fonts into [...]
Create A Birthday Calendar in iCal
If you are like most people, chances are you tend to forget important dates such as birthdays. You have a vague idea that’s in a certain month but you can’t recall the exact date. Most of the time you need a reminder such as the birthday list in Facebook. Since not everyone is a member [...]
iPhoto
iPhoto Course (10): Creating Slideshows in iPhoto ’11
Creating Slideshows in iPhoto ’11 is great fun! Adding a little enhancement when showing your photos will actually make a huge difference to make your audience more engaged in the activity. Some of us can relate to having sat through a dull presentation while impatiently waiting for one lousy slide to move to another and [...]
iPhoto Course (9): Tagging and Searching with Metadata in iPhoto ’11
Who cares about metadata? We say, you should! Okay, some people get panic stricken whenever they hear techie words like metadata. Don’t jump out of the page yet because you’ll gonna love metadata after reading this post. What does Metadata in iPhoto mean? Put simply, Metadata refer to the unique information pertaining to a photo [...]
iPhoto Course (8): Creating Albums and Smart Albums in iPhoto ’11
Remember those photos you took on your parent’s 24th wedding anniversary? How about photos from their past anniversaries before that? Give yourself a creative burst with iPhoto’s Albums and Smart Albums and you’ll be delighted to look back on the past with that smile painted all over your face. Albums and Smart Albums work similar [...]
iPhoto Course (7): Geotagging Images in iPhoto ’11
Looking for some fresh insights to make your iPhoto collection more exciting? Because we believe that iPhoto should be anything but boring, we’re giving you a new reason to level-up your iPhoto experience to a whole new magnitude with Places. No matter where you go, iPhoto will be able to keep a record of where [...]
iPhoto Course (6): Finding People using Faces / Adding Names to Faces in iPhoto ’11
You’ve got to believe in magic! Not that it is hard to believe, but who knew that a simple software could be so powerful that it can recognize people through their faces. It’s safe to say that iPhoto sort of laid the groundwork for digital photograph applications by establishing a higher level of standard when [...]
iPhoto Course (5): Burning a backup CD or DVD in iPhoto ’11
Listen up everyone! Here’s something very important to consider when you are using iPhoto as we cannot always claim that our macs are a hundred percent infallible – there are computer crashes and not to mention uncontrolled disasters or accidents to consider. We often hear that an ounce of prevention is better than a pound [...]
iPhoto Course (4): Sharing Photos Online (Facebook, etc)
Ever wish you could just simply drag and drop photos from your iPhoto collections to social media sites but don’t know how to do it? If you feel you had just about all the how-to’s on this topic, most probably you are not alone. But before you throw in the towel or start another round [...]
iPhoto Course (3): Understanding Events in iPhoto
Raise your hand if you are under the impression that “Events” in iPhoto is such a puzzling thing. Try as you might to grasp the rudiments of this feature, still you find yourself wandering in darkness. Now, you can put that hand down because we are going to let you understand Events. There is a [...]
iPhoto Course (2): Using Basic Editing Tools in iPhoto
Aside from providing its users the convenience of organizing their photos, iPhoto ’11 also doubles as a timesaving application for editing images. In one time or another, some of us have experienced that only after we’re done importing photos to iPhoto when we notice that there are certain flaws or defect such as dark photos [...]
iPhoto Course (1): Importing Images from Your Camera to iPhoto ’11
So, you’ve been taking pictures from your digital camera or smartphone and would like to transfer them to your Mac for you to edit, upload and more importantly to have a backup of your precious images. You might have heard or read somewhere that iPhoto ’11 is such a great tool for editing, sharing and [...]
Mac App Reviews
Utility App Daisy Disk (Review)
If you follow TheMacMania already you know that we review Apps for you from time to time. Usually I use the App together with you the first time. This way I do not have any further experience with the application than you have and hopefully stumble over the same difficulties you would. I really hope [...]
Roads of Rome (Review)
It is a mix of time management, strategy and resource management. It is a little like a puzzle game, and was apparently a PC game in a previous life. It revolves around a general who is in love with Caesar’s daughter. Instead of cutting off his head, the boss sends him to build roads. The [...]
Reckless Racing
I have never been one for racing games. Not even when I was a kid. After spending my days running for the six foot skin headed bullies known as my teacher, I didn’t want to race around in a circle when I threw on my games console when I got home. I wanted to play [...]
How to Give your Lion a New Look with Lion Designer
Are you getting bored with your Lion’s UI? It’s been going around Mac community that many of those who upgraded their Mac OS to OS X Lion are not so happy that the system’s visual design has gone, shall we say, “too subdued” for their taste. So, to those of you who are itching to [...]
Fantastical (Review)
iCal is a simple application on your Mac that is capable of managing and creating events easily. However, there is an app that enhances its capabilities. It is similar to iCal but it is more intuitive, more flexible and gives you more options to customize your events. Flexbits, the creator of Fantastical offers a free [...]
Clean my Mac
What Does CleanMyMac Do CleanMyMac clears unwanted files and optimizes universal binaries and caches. It removes un-used language installations and removes old preference files, cleaning your Mac. What Are The Features Of CleanMyMac The paid version comes as a big suite of tools and gives a lot of detailed information about the files it wishes to delete, [...]
Divvy – the windows organizer
What Does Divvy Do It separates and organises your windows with ease to give you are little more control over your screen. A lot of Mac users will have a window panel do just one task at a time, be it look at the internet or read a document. People whom use their computer for many [...]
MacCleanse – FileCleaning for your Mac
What Does MacCleanse Do The MacCleanse app concentrates mostly around file cleaning. It is more of a specific app, dealing with one problem by coming at it from all angles. It reclaims the disk space on your hard drive and performed multiple tasks at once that would normally take hours (maybe more) to complete. It [...]
MacKeeper 2012 – Clean your Mac
What Does MacKeeper 2012 Do MacKeeper 2012 is a file maintenance suite. It is a little like a Mac cleaner, except for that it has more uses. It’s aim is to make your Mac secure, reliable, maintain its speed and clean its files. It comprises of a bunch of system utilities that perform different routine tasks [...]
Recover photos, audio and video files
Hopefully it has never happened to you but it could – a wrong click on your camera and all your photos are deleted! Or you choose the wrong USB stick to format, etc. I can say that this just happened to me once before. We wanted to go on vacation, I grabbed the camera and [...]
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