A common issue, especially with users new to Mac, is how to create screen captures. There are several different ways of creating screen captures depending on what you’re trying to do. Whether you’re trying to get an entire screen, just a portion, or perhaps record what is happening on your screen. This step-by-step tutorial will [...]
To keep multiple folders and thousands of files synchronised can be a real headache without a convenient method to automate the task. Consider this scenario: you have several folders on your Mac that must be kept fully synchronised with an external USB memory stick, hard drive, or simply with another computer or mobile phone. Copying [...]
There are many ways to speed up your Mac, but perhaps the simplest method is to install a third-party application to help with the most common tasks, which range from freeing up system memory to cleaning out old junk that could be slowing your system down. Some of the most popular applications that can up [...]
It’s easy to get videos playing on your Apple devices if they were purchased through iTunes, but a lot of people have struggled with, or wondered how, to get non-purchased content onto their Apple devices. Due to copyright and contract issues, Apple is unable to put a decent file-conversation option in iTunes. Despite this, it [...]
In this day and age we basically need passwords for everything. If you’re anything like me, you’re probably doing a majority of your finances online. You have passwords for banking, email, websites, social media, forums… the list is endless and not getting any shorter. With this change in activity comes the increased awareness in password [...]
Mac OS X Lion has many superb features and the majority of users enjoy it immensely. However, some people who have installed Lion may wish to revert back to Snow Leopard simply because they prefer its look and feel, or because they have issues with Lion that cannot be resolved. For example, some older applications [...]
Hard disks inevitably fill up over time, and a higher capacity drive just means that you’ll find more ways to fill it. These days it’s possible to buy a MacBook Pro with a 750 GB hard disk, but even that can fill quickly if you have lots of media such as movies, music and photos. As [...]
Duplicate files such as documents and photos can occupy a surprising amount of space on your Mac’s hard disk and you might not even realise they are there. Perhaps you’ve copied files into several folders and external USB drives, and additional copies could exist in the Mail downloads folder. You might even find a few [...]
Many people have wondered how to, or if it was even possible to remove the shadows that appear in Mac OS X windows for all operating systems. Though there isn’t a terminal command or setting you can change yourself, there is a way to do it. Now before we begin, it is important to note [...]
New to Mac OS X Lion is “Versions”, it is an automatic backup utility much like Time Machine that saves several copies of files as you’re working on them. Apple introduced this utility so that users could always revert back to previous versions of a file if they chose. A few people have wondered if [...]
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