Compared to the clunky start-bar on older versons of Windows the dock featured on Apple Macs has always been a pleasure to use. It’s quick, simple and highly customisable, plus it alters it’s own size and position to suit most varieties of Mac usage. But it’s not perfect, one thing that Windows has recently been doing better [...]
Here’s a great game for you Mac OS X users that will wet your gaming whistle for only $20.00 www.amnesiagame.com Amnesia: The Dark Descent takes place in an old castle located in Brennenburg, London. You wake up in the castle’s main hallway forgetting who you are, why you’re here or even where here is. The [...]
Any day now the latest update for Mac OS is going to be released. Mountain Lion promises to fully integrate your Mac with the other Apple products that you own with better iCloud syncing, a notifications system like the one on iOS and Twitter access direct from your desktop. Until the release day rolls around there is [...]
Spring is here and it’s probably about time you gave the hardrive on your Mac and good old clean so that it runs and little faster and has a few more MBs going spare for all of your documents. However before you go reaching for the rubber gloves and the fairy liquid I recommend going [...]
When making the switch between computers running Windows 7 and Mac OS X there are always a few features that I wish came as standard on both. One of the ones I miss the most when moving from Windows to Mac is the Aero Snap, this handy feature is particularly useful when you’re trying to multitask between [...]
Whenever you access a URL on the Internet your Mac checks the address against a list of IP addresses stored in the hosts file. Normally your Mac doesn’t find what it’s looking for in the hosts file and quickly moves on to resolving the web address via the DNS (Domain Name System) server. With a [...]
2012 seems to be the year the that cloud storage finally becomes a mainstream technology. If you’re new to the whole cloud storage metaphor the idea behind the technology is simple; instead of storing files on your computers hardrive you give them to someone (normally a large company) to store on a server elsewhere, and [...]
One feature that many Apple fans desperately want to see come to the Mac is Siri, the personal assistant off the iPhone 4S. While Apple haven’t explicitly dealt with this, there is a very simple way to bring her (at least her voice and some of her functionality) to your Mac for completely free. While [...]
As Apple starts merging the features found on iOS with their new iterations of Mac OS X there are a few things that we wish they’d hurry up with and bring to our Macs. One of the things that iOS handles much better than Mac OS X is copying and pasting: on iOS you simply highlight and [...]
If you work from home you’ll be familiar with this senario: someone emails you a document, you fill it out and then realise you need to sign it before sending it back. Your heart sinks and you begin the process of printing out the document, signing the document by hand, scanning in the document, readjusting the brightness [...]
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