Make your MacBook, MacBook Pro or MacBook Air battery last longer by maintaining it with a few simple tips. Calibrate, use and condition your laptop battery for extended use and longer battery life.
Creating a global address book for all of your users on your Snow Leopard 10.6 server isn’t a simple task. But with a little configuration adjustments, you can have an address book that all or some of your network users can share.
Can’t remember that password for a website, Facebook, chat room or application on your Mac? No worries. Mac OS X keeps all of your passwords in one central location. Use the Mac Keychain Access utility to retrieve and find lost or forgotten passwords.
Who knows why, but every once in a while a CD or DVD will become stuck in your Macbook or iMac slot loading drive. Depressing the keyboard eject button shows you the eject icon on screen, but the stuck DVD or CD in your Mac just refuses to budge. Here’s a couple of tips to help you remove that stubborn, …
Apple’s Archive Utility is the default utility for unzipping and extracting compressed files, and comes free with every Mac that runs OS X. Simply double-click any .zip archive and Archive Utility automatically decompresses the file. But where is the Archive Utility on your Mac? You won’t find the utility in either the Mac Utilities or Applications folders. So where is …
One of the great things about Mac OS X is how drop-dead simple it is to do things. Installing fonts on your Mac couldn’t be easier. There’s no need to snoop around looking for a Font’s folder or some hidden folder to instal fonts on your Mac, it’s even easier than drag and drop. Installing fonts on OS X is …
Sometimes as a Mac user, it’s easy to over-think the obvious. In the past if I wanted to remove an old or unused OS X Preference Pane, I would dig down through the “Library/PreferencePanes” directory on my Mac and trash or move the Preference Pane in question. Of course Apple made it a lot easier. Here’s the easy way to …
One of the bugs in the OS X Leopard Mail application is the inability of Mail to announce all incoming email with your alert sound. Enabling the alert for all new mail, not just certain mail, is relatively simple, once you know the trick. To enable the incoming mail sound, you need to change one preference in your Apple Mail …
So you’ve gone through all of your pictures in iPhoto and carefully entered geo-tagging information down to the square inch, yet when you upload a picture to Facebook, Flicker or your web site, all of the geo-tagging is lost. Don’t worry, the geo-taggs are still there, you’ve just got to tell iPhoto to include the location data when up send …
There really isn’t a simple way to export a PDF file to a Word or Rich Text file on a Mac. If you are lucky enough to have Adobe Acrobat, you can export from PDF to Text and another quick option is copy and paste in Text Edit. Using a simple Automator application, you can export your PDF formatted text …
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