In the first part of this small series I looked at the most important utilities to add to a new Mac, and then I covered annoyances and distractions. Now onto the last few miscellaneous ones ... Others that might be of interest Facebook Notificatio...
In the first part of this small series I looked at the most important utilities to add to a new Mac. Now I'm going to help fix some annoyances. "Wait a minute," I hear you cry, "I thought you thought Macs were perfect?" Well, nothing's perfect, an...
As various family members and friends are switching to Mac, I thought it was a good time to think of some juicy hints or tips. I know that part of the point of Mac is that they "just work", and you don't need to tinker with them. But at heart I'm ...
A quick techie note, to help others that would also like the following combination: using site-specific browsers (so you can have GMail, GCal or GDocs as separate 'apps' living in their own windows that don't get in the way of other browsing) usin...
I heard about this via LifeHacker and immediately knew I had to add it to my Mac system: a system-wide ad blocker. I've long been frustrated that there's no obviously good Ad Blocker for Safari, as there is for Firefox (Adblock Plus). But now you ...
This morning the MacBook was behaving strangely ... to the point that I managed to lose the menu bar entirely, and no apps were doing anything. I'm still not sure what happened, but it was refusing to shutdown to make it more annoying. After a har...
Quite how much time should we put into our computer backups? No idea, though it seems I spend too much time on it, particularly this week. I'm happy so far with Time Machine built into OS X from 10.5 on, but the one thing it misses is the ability ...