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Having your computer go to sleep immediately, or having a default screensaver come on is boring, just like having a voicemail with no custom message. However there is a solution. OS X allows you to easily create a custom screesaver based off two ore more photos so you have give your Mac that personalised edge […]
Apple’s iCloud is pretty cool really. It allows you to store music, videos, apps and more and then lets you share them wirelessly between your devices. Pretty useful, right? However, as Apple is so restricted with what it will allow, it’s useful for apps and not much else as it can’t be used as a […]
I’m no maths boffin or genius, but even for me this is pretty cool. OS X hides lots of things, but perhaps few are as significant as this. If you take advanced maths or are studying something similar at uni, you’ll more than likely want a graphing application, so you can plot and calculate co-ordinates […]
Keeping your photos safe is of the utmost importance. Hopefully you already keep your images backed up on at least one external hard drive to ensure that if the worst happened to your Mac you’d still have all those cherished jpgs safe and sound somewhere else. Of course keeping printed copies of your images is probably […]
Data loss is always a nightmare senario, but it’s one that will hopefully fade away as cloud computing hits the mainstream. Sometime soon we’ll all be able to sleep safely at night knowing that no matter what happens to our computers we’ll have copies of our data elsewhere ready to be restored at the press of a […]
Sometimes it feels like no matter what you do some items in the Trash bin on your Mac just won’t delete, no matter how many times you try to click empty trash the system never actually gets rid of everything and you’re let with a full trash icon sitting on your desktop. When this happens […]
It can be hard to use computers successfully if you have a disability. While Apple have made it much easier with the iPad for disabled people to use it, the Mac without anything remains a struggle. However one of the less talked about features of OS X is the built in ‘Universal Access’ feature, which […]
The Dock on your Mac is one of the most used bits of Mac OS X, it’s where you keep your most used apps, where you store the folders you often look in, and it’s where apps your currently using hide when you’ve not got them fully opened. Like most aspects of OS X the […]
For the average Mac user, the Terminal is something that’s either too complicated to use or completely unknown. If you don’t know what it is, it’s the place where you can have your Mac execute custom commands, many of which you can’t do through other means. It’s a great tool, and unlike many believe, if […]
Most public wi-fi connections are guarded by a password, normally you have to ask someone or buy something to get access to the password, which you then enter on your Mac and promptly forget able. But what if you need to find this password again but for some reason aren’t able to ask for it? […]
The iTunes store is an amazing place where you can buy and gain access to a huge range of digital goods, from music and movies to apps, audiobooks, ebooks and university courses. However, if you’re in a rush to find and buy things it can be a bit clunky to navigate, first you have to open […]
If you have a kindle or an ebook reader and you’ve been trying to do more with it than just download books from the official outlets tied to certain manufacturers, you will have noticed that there’s a lack of features for getting ebooks properly formatted, organised and transfered. On a kindle, unless you buy directly from amazon, […]
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