Intelligent Editorial: Apple Customer Care
Although you may not believe me after my previous editorial, I really think Apple is an awesome company. Something about having a mac makes you...
Open up the “goto” folder dialouge box while saving.
Do you ever know where you want to save something, and really don’t feel like taking your hands off the keyboard to navigate to the...
Fixing Spotlight’s issues
After reading Josh’s post about his spotlight woes, I IMed him and offered a solution. If spotlight is being a complete pain in the ass,...
Macgasm Tuesday: Early Edition (With Update!)
Executive Order Number 1: You never, ever wait until Friday to talk about something as monumental and earth-shattering as shiny, new hardware spurted forth from the bowls of Cupertino. Never, ever. As such, Macgasm Friday becomes Macgasm Tuesday, pushed out on the heels of Apple's announcement of new design. "Of what?" you ask. Read on, dear reader.
Spotlight is a database and databases get broken
I think I should start a new blog category for things breaking on my mac. I’m probably the most unlucky mac user known to man....
Mac OS X 10.5 : Server Edition.
I’ve used 10.4 Server quite a bit over the last year, and I have to admit it wasn’t my favourite thing to do. It seemed...
Movie Rentals via iTunes
When Steve Jobs announced that Apple was going to update iTunes and Apple TV to allow movie rentals from the iTunes Store i was quite...
iHype: Think Different.
Have you seen this one yet? I don’t know about you, but there’s a large part of me that’s actually tired of the fanboy gristmill...
Growl forwarding and Back to my Mac
I just thought of a really great idea for using forwarding of growl. Let’s say you have .Mac and are running leopard on both machines....
Screenshots. I get asked this at least once a week!
There are a number of ways in os x to take a screenshot, or print screen for you windows folk! To get a full screen...
Intelligent Editorial: Skitch
So this time my weekly editorial will be in the form of a review! I really like Skitch and decided it was time to review...
The Case of the Missing Boot Drive.
So, if their is some messed up thing that can happen on a Mac, chances are that it has happened to me. I ask my...
Find Useless Large Files
If you’re like me, you collect junk on your computer all of the time. Sometimes I like to go through and find all of the...
Print as PDF
Printing is a pain in the rear. I hate managing stacks and stacks of paper, but sometimes I have to have an exact copy of...
iTunes Back Up
What are the most important files on your computer? For me, my most important files are my music and movies. If my harddrive were to...
Mac OS X Security Basics
With all of the discussion around the Leopard release and the whole firewall debacle, now is a good time to learn more about the basics...
iTunes, Purchased Content and wiping your hard drive
Within iTunes you can only have 5 machines authorized to the same iTunes account, meaning you can have up to five computers that can play...
Got a New Mac? Learn the ups and downs of Transferring your account.
About a week ago I decided that I REALLY wanted to buy Mac OS X Leopard Server. I have two Macs, about a year old...