Tag: Mac OS X
Mac From The Past: That Old iBook Still Has Life Left In It
If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance that you have some sort of old old Mac sitting around the house gathering dust. There’s also...
Yosemite Tip: Change Your Default Web Browser Without Ever Opening Safari
In prior versions of OS X, you had to—inexplicably—open Safari to set a different default browser. Yes, other browser vendors like Google and Mozilla included a “set...
Tuesday Tips: 5 Yosemite Finder And Spotlight Tricks For Better File Management
Yosemite comes with a greatly overhauled Spotlight search feature…and a slightly improved Finder. And with each come some new features for getting things done. Get...
Worth Reading: The Verge Reviews OS X Yosemite
David Pierce (who briefly blogged for me while I worked at PCWorld) gives his evaluation of OS X Yosemite: “It’s a cleaner, calmer, more balanced look...
Yosemite Tip: Put A Calculator In Your Notification Center
Notification Center in Yosemite has learned a few tricks from iOS, such as the customizable Today view. To change which widgets—which ranging from weather forecasts...
iTunes 11.2 Update Hides /Users Folder For Some, Makes Everyone Blame OS X 10.9.3
Has your /Users folder gone missing since you installed Apple’s latest round of OS X software updates? You’re not alone. Macworld points out that some...
Mini Metro Lets You Design A Subway, Gives You More Respect For Transit Engineers
I can become a bit obsessed with cities and transportation. I drew countless pictures of traffic signals as a kid, and would pore over road...
Lock Your Mac’s Screen To Foil Prying Eyes
If you use your Mac in a public or semi-public area—such as in an open-floorplan office—you might not want random people to be able to...
Make The Finder Live Up To Its Name With These Searching Tricks
If you’re fairly new to the Mac, you might not know everything that the Finder’s search feature can do. After all, aside from the ubiquitous...
Mac OS X 10.8.2 Released With Facebook Support
Mac OS X 10.8.0 was released to the world on July 25, 2012. That’s a mere 56 days ago. Mac OS X 10.8.1 shipped on...
Mountain Lion: Sharing is caring
Apple isn’t taking any prisoners with their latest installment of Mac OS X. Announced yesterday, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion continues 10.7’s trend of moving...
Double Fine Adventure officially coming to Mac OS X and iOS
Earlier in the month, Double Fine announced that they would be funding their next game through Kickstarter. They needed a minimum of $400,000 USD to...
VLC 2.0 to ship this week with Blu-Ray support and a new UI
VLC, the popular open source media player, will be hitting the 2.0 release this week, and with it comes some significant UI changes.
WriteRoom hits 3.0, now Lionified
WriteRoom, the no-hassel writing tool for OS X has been updated to version 3.0 today, and now supports most of the Lion features we’ve come...
Duke Nukem Forever is now pre-orderable on the Mac
Gamers rejoice. You can finally pre-order Duke Nukem Forever. Yes, that wonderful pile of steaming mediocrity that took an astonishing fifteen years of development has...
Test RAM on your Mac without a RAM tester
Have you ever had your Mac not boot properly? Or, maybe you’re not sure if the new memory you bought is on the up and...
Rumor: Apple retail preparing for July 14 OS X Lion launch
As July marches on, rumors are picking up concerning the release of OS X Lion. The current date pegged in most rumors is July 14....
‘About This Mac’ gains huge overhaul in Lion
The “About This Mac” window is probably familiar to most Mac users. Housed right inside the Apple menu, About This Mac gives users quick access...