When it comes to your Macbook’s battery, there’s two things that all Mac users worry about: Making sure each charge lasts as long as...
Get the most out of your Mac’s battery: Making each charge last longer
How to change the name of any Mac account
Your user account and home folder are created when you first setup your Mac, but that doesn’t mean you can’t rename them! Maybe you...
No more autocorrect slip-ups! Customising Apple’s text correction service
Autocorrect can save you the embarrassment of sending a typo to your boss, by detecting every time you make a spelling mistake, and correcting it for...
Category - OS X
On occasion your Mac may decide not to eject a CD or DVD, luckily there are a few simple methods for ejecting a stuck disk:
If you asked someone to sum up the technology giant Apple in one word, that word could well be ‘innovation’. Apple leads the way in much of its...
Ever want to be able to watch streaming movies, play games or even edit Photos in detail on your beautiful flat screen TV? Connecting our Mac’s to our...
When your Mac’s USB ports aren’t detecting your devices this can become a very big problem – thumb drives, external hard drives and...
This morning I was awoken by a worried friend in the midst of attempting to reformat his Mac’s hard drive and reinstall OS X. Having taken my advice to...
Has YouTube been running slow for you lately? Before the symptoms of Internet Streaming Deprivation (ISD, if you’re interested) lead you to hurl your PC...
There are times when it can be handy to know which other devices are on your local network. For example, suppose that you need to know whether a certain device...
Being an owner of both a Mac and a PlayStation 3, I stumbled across a great piece of software called PS3 Media Server, a free way to stream various media types...
I often see many people with boring default Mac Desktops and Wallpapers. This selection of sites and apps will help you add a bit of individuality to your Mac.
Apples MacBook Air is ideal for travelers considering the thin, light weight and long lasting battery life – with hours of online charge and up to 30...
In this tutorial I will show you how to not only create your own screensaver but how to set your screensaver as your desktop background. Yes the screensaver...
The ability to hold ctrl down whilst scrolling up to zoom in and down to zoom out on your mouse or touchpad used to be enabled by default on OS X. Seemingly...
OS X Mountain Lion is Apple’s latest and greatest Mac OS, so it’s no surprise that it’s already become a hit with Mac users everywhere. Even...
Applescript Editor is a default app on OS X, located in the Utilities folder in Finder, and is something that can come in very useful. Like all computer...
OS X Mountain Lion (note that it’s not called “Mac OS X” any more) has just been released and the first thing many people will have done...
A friend of mine has set his device to play an ominous tune each time an email is sent – and it’s not hard to understand why. If we had a penny...
So, enticed by smooth gestures, full-screen apps and an iOS-like Launchpad, you’ve made the move to Apple’s latest big cat, Lion. The...
Occasionally, Apple releases important firmware upgrades for the Mac which help to resolve critical hardware issues or simply add support for new features...
Memory management is a very important aspect of Mac OS. You will often find your mac running slow, after you have been using it for a few hours. This is due to...
Sometimes your computer just gets upset and starts to heat up on you and I mean really heat up. When you run multiple programs your using a lot of cpu, big...
When you have just splashed out on a new Mac or wish to stress test your old machine (for example before and after a memory or SSD upgrade), there are a...
The situation may be especially familiar to iPad users: having amassed a sizeable DVD collection over the years, you wish to transfer your favourites over to...
In 2012, PowerPC Macs are slowly but surely being phased out completely. They are definitely still usable, but their functionality is becoming less and less...
When you’re on holiday and have taken your beloved Mac with you, there’s often nothing better than catching up on a bit of British telly on the BBC...
We recently wrote an article telling you all about what exactly virtual memory was in the context of OS X, what it does, and how you can check how much of it...
