Tips, Tricks and more for your Mac
Why screenshots on a Mac? Screenshots on a Mac are usually very helpful if you want to document an error or if you preserve something from a website for later use. Also, if you create tutorials it is really helpful to create screenshots. When you are new to the Mac you might have a hard [...]
Sneak Peak to Mac OS Lion A brandnew Mac OS is on its way – the Mac OS Lion We have walked with Apple through all cats – from panther to leopard to snow leopard actually – but we are not done. Recently Apple gave us a sneak peak at the new operating system for [...]
Mac OS X Lion is on its way! Smaller improvements in the Mac OS X Lion The developer version of the newest version of the Snow Leopard Mac OS X is just published. Apple applied a lot of improvement and claims now that the operating system has no more bigger issues. It will take some [...]
Onyx, the free maintenance program Onyx, the Mac maintenance As a former Windows user I’ve always tried to find something to mantain my system. I´m so used to that – I can hardly believe that there is nothing I need to do to keep my disk, ram, cache, etc. running smoothly. Finally I found something. [...]
Change the folder background color Change the folder background color to make get a bit contrast on your computer screen I just found out something nice – not amazing but truly helpful when you sit too long on the computer and your eyes get slowly tired from starring on the white windows. When you change [...]
I just found a nice little application for your Mac which will assure that you can start your computer in the middle of the night without waking up the neighborhood – it eliminates your Mac’s Start Up Sound. When you have your speakers always turned on you won’t come around the nice little “BLAAANG” when [...]
Change the folder image in Mac OS X I always liked to see what is in my folder. In Windows this was really easy. I just made an image, called it folder and put it into my folder – that was it. It is a bit more tricky in the Mac OS but easy enough [...]
[easyazon-image align="left" asin="0321501934" locale="us" height="500" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515MGxwDg8L.jpg" width="404"]If you are like me I feel I waist a ton of time on things I don’t know. Learning is for sure one option but learning also means that you need to invest a good amount of time and then, maybe, you still don’t know all and the whole [...]
There are lots of new Finder Features in Mac OSX. It doesn’t matter if you use Snow Leopard, Lion or even Mountain Lion – the Finder features will help you to organize your files. The Finder is a great tool to organize your files. It is the heart and soul in Mac OS – it [...]
Everyone wants her Mac to be more personal. One thing you can do is to change your desktop background to a picture. If you’ve recently changed to a Mac system you may find the different operating system quiet challenging although anyone says that it’s so easy to get used to it. For me it was [...]
Many studies have shown that a lot of people use their computers as their primary multimedia device nowadays. While nothing beats the television set in terms of size and clarity, more and more people have been turning to their desktop iMacs, and most especially their portable Macs as their personal entertainment command center. The internet [...]
Microsoft Office has to be the most widely used office productivity software in the planet. It is in millions or even billions of computers worldwide, ranging from sophisticated machines used in various businesses to the desktop at home or the laptop or netbook that your son or daughter uses. The files extensions .docx and .xlsx [...]
