When AirTunes was first rolled out together with Apple’s Airport Express, we could choose to play our music from iTunes. Either on our Macs or over WiFi to remote speakers hard wired to our Airport Express base stations….
Released in November 2005, Apple’s Broadband Tuner increases the default values for the size of the TCP send and receive buffers. With larger buffers more data can be in transit at once. A startup configuration file is…
Keychain Access can be found Inside every copy of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, and previous incarnations of Mac OS X, in the Applications/Utilities folder. Often neglected, Keychain Access is the tool for keeping personal information private. Out…
Erasing files from your hard drive (emptying the trash), just means that you’ve told the Mac operating system to earmark those files to be over-written but they are not actually removed from the system entirely….
Apple Mail 2.0.5 which ships with Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, now comes with a built-in feature that simplifies sending Windows friendly attachments through email. ‘Windows-friendly’ refers to the removal of resource files in attachments…
Because Max OS X facilitates the use of modifier keys that enable Mac users to boot up from alternative sources, or in FireWire Target Disk mode, it may be necessary as an additional line of defence…
Tabbed browsing has now pretty much become a standard user Internet browsing experience these days. Other than Apple’s Safari, most browsers support similar versions of tabbed browsing — Mozilla Firefox. For those of you who’re still…
Whilst Apple is turning the music industry over on its heels by coaxing the biggest music industry players to license sales of music over the internet, there’s something you might like to know before encoding…
Some time ago (when we were too preoccupied with other developments) Google has introduced a Gmail Notifier with versions for both Windows XP and Mac OS X 10.3 Tiger. Its a nifty little package that has all…
You buy Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, you install it into your Mac and everything’s fine in your world. However, in previous incarnations of Mac OS 9 and OS X, Allume Systems’ Stuffit Expander shipped…