Mac Os X

Use Fantasical to organise iCal on your Mac using natural language recognition

Use Fantasical to organise iCal on your Mac using natural language recognition

Organising your calendar is one of those great computer chores, you know you have to do it, but you put it off and eventually you end up either missing appointments or spending a whole block of your time copying own your appointments onto your Mac, laboriously entering who you’re meeting, where it is, when it starts, when [...]

Access Application Pop-up Menus Everywhere with MenuPop

Access Application Pop-up Menus Everywhere with MenuPop

The menu system on the Mac works very well, however there are times when it can be a real pain to have to move your mouse all the way to the top of the screen just to access an application’s menus. On a laptop, this might not seem like such a big deal, but anyone [...]

Batch edit and reformat your pictures and images with EasyBatchPhoto

Batch edit and reformat your pictures and images with EasyBatchPhoto

If you’re a blogger, or if you handle a large amount of images in your day-to-day work you’ll be familiar with this senario: you’ve got a whole load of images and they’re all in the wrong format, what’s worse is that all of these images are the wrong size. Then there’s that sinking feeling when [...]

Best Fax Apps on the Mac

Best Fax Apps on the Mac

We might be living in the advanced technological age of email and the Internet, but there was a time when the fax was one of the essential items of any office. Nowadays, it’s still sometimes necessary to send documents by fax, but the vast majority of people don’t have access to a fax machine unless [...]

3 Ways To Improve Your Mac’s Performance Without New Hardware

3 Ways To Improve Your Mac’s Performance Without New Hardware

Many Mac users who complain of slow speeds and poor performance don’t realise that they’re more than likely the ones causing the problem. If you don’t maintain your Mac and make sure everything is organised and clean, it will become very slow very quickly and getting good performance out of it can become a nightmare. [...]

Five Photoshop Alternatives For The Mac

Five Photoshop Alternatives For The Mac

The Mac has always enjoyed a decent reputation for photo editing and manipulation amongst consumers and professionals alike. Whether you’re a graphic designer or simply an enthusiastic amateur who enjoys touching up and manipulating photos, there are dozens of applications for the Mac which can help you to achieve superb results. The granddaddy of all [...]

OS X Horror Amnesia: The Dark Descent – Game Review

OS X Horror Amnesia: The Dark Descent – Game Review

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 [...]

Get a sneak-peek of Mountain Lion by installing the Messages Beta on your Mac

Get a sneak-peek of Mountain Lion by installing the Messages Beta on your Mac

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 clean your Mac and tidy up your hard drive with CCleaner

Spring clean your Mac and tidy up your hard drive with CCleaner

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 [...]

How to add Windows 7 Aero Snap to Mac OS with Cinch

How to add Windows 7 Aero Snap to Mac OS with Cinch

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 [...]