Tag: OS X
EverWeb Wants To Make Web Development Absurdly Simple
When Apple discontinued its iWeb webpage design app back in 2011, it left a lot of users who relied on it to design their personal...
SimCity Offline Mode Is Finally Here
It’s here! It’s here! It’s finally here! In a blog post published Tuesday, EA announced that you can now officially play SimCity without an Internet...
Make Your Screen Less Glaring At Night With F.lux
You probably should get away from your computer once in a while. Not only can starting at a glowing screen cause eye strain, but research...
Re-organize, And Hide, Your System Preferences In OS X
If you’re anything like me, there’s probably quite a few System Preference options that you never use. Ultimately it results in lost time when I’m...
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...
How To Automatically Silence Notifications At Night
Sometimes, you just want a little peace. Notification Center’s Do Not Disturb feature can give you some by silencing the alert-pop-ups that incessantly harass you...
You Can Encrypt Images And Videos In OS X For Some Additional Privacy
Worried about keeping some images or videos private and out of the gaze of some nogoodnik? Have no fear, Keychain Access is here. Bet you...
OS X Trojan Hides Behind Angry Birds, Will Help Itself To Your Bitcoin
Hide your Bitcoin, hide your kids, hide your wife…there’s a new piece of Mac malware in town. According to security software company Eset, a newly...
How To Get More Out Of Finder Tags
OS X Mavericks lets you assign tags to your files through the Finder. If you’ve ever used Flickr, Tumblr, WordPress, or any site that includes...
How Steve Jobs Tried To Have Sony Put OS X On Its Computers In 2001
Today you would never expect to see a non-Apple computer ship with OS X installed. Back in 2001, however, this was almost the case. Popular...
Change Default Quick Look Apps On The Fly
Dear Finder, please stop trying to open up my PHP in TextEdit from the Quick Look window. Is there anything more annoying when OS X...
Tired Of Cleaning Your Downloads Folder? Why Not Use ‘/TMP’ Instead?
Sure there’s plenty of applications out there that will clean up folders for you and file your stuff based on a bunch of rules, but...
How To Block Flash For All Websites But A Select Few
I recently formatted Mavericks, but then it happened: I was being asked to download and install Flash on my computer. At first I avoided it...
Apple Releases OS X 10.9.1 With Mail.app Improvements
Apple has just released OS X 10.9.1 to the general public after being in beta for a little over a month. The update is focused...
Apple Reportedly Doubles Developer Promo Codes From 50 To 100
If you’re a developer trying to get certain people free copies of your game, you probably do this by giving out your free app promo...
OS X 10.9 Mavericks Server: A Review
Apple has released their tenth iteration of OS X, called OS X 10.9 Mavericks. OS X 10.9 Mavericks builds on the existing OS X 10.8...
When’s Apple Going To Start Taking Interoperability Between OS X And iOS Seriously?
Apple’s “just works” mantra has done them very well over the years. It’s something that resonated with me just before making the switch to a...
SimCity For Mac To Launch On August 29th
SimCity for the Mac was supposed to be released on June 11, but was delayed because EA wanted to make sure it was ready for...