AquaSoft is a site that’s dedicated to morphing Windows rigs to have a desktop that looks like a Mac OS X. From the desktop images, icons to even the Mac OS X Finder window, WindowsBlinds makes it happen. Suffice it to say people who have tried have not reported that its an easy task. Reading the Readme.txt that accompanies […]
With MacWorld 2005 coming up on 10 January 2005 at the famed Moscone Centre, San Francisco, USA, informed mac fanatics are busy fuelling the rumour mill despite Apple’s latest attempts to deter intellectual property leaks within their Cupertino Fortress. Macriot rounds up the latest rumours to fill the Internet and keep potential Read More
Tired of hitting the up and down arrow keys on your iBook or PowerBook? A wonderful must-have extension to your default Mac OS X system is Raging Menace’s SideTrack. SideTrack turns your trackpad into a multi-button mouse with minor tweaks to your Mac OS X System Preferences menu via Read More
f you’re stumped or spending way too much of your time hitting the forward and back button on your browser scouring for images, check out Mesa Dynamics, Beholder. “Beholder queries Internet search engines and quickly arranges their results along with their source pages, URLs and other link details… Read More
If you’ve recently exchanged your WinTel system for a mac, one of the first realisations is that there is no Mac OS X version of the ever popular Kazaa P2P application that facilitates Peer-To-Peer (P2P) file sharing over the Internet. Fret not, there are Mac OS X Read More
Despite Microsoft’s efforts to galvanise Internet Explorer’s (IE) grip on the Internet and our desktops at large, surveys and reports indicate that IE is losing its 90% grip on our desktops. Mac users will already have shifted from IE with the introduction of Apple Safari and co-operation of banking Read More
Did you know that you can now open, write and edit Microsoft Word friendly documents using the latest TextEdit v.1.3(v202)? This often overlooked powerful quick text editor can do much more. Read more and find out how to wield this tiny but mighty application that ships with your mac. Read More
To fully appreciate a mac, its been said the best way is to learn the keyboard shortcuts. Armed with the appropriate few keyboard shortcuts you can zoom your way through Mac OS X. You can always “Go Back” by pressing Cmd + [(the left bracket key).Read More
Most mac keyboards have volume controls and whenever you press on these volume controls a beep is emitted. To silence the beeps press shift together with your sound control keys.Read More
There’s been a shortage of mac powered health management systems or Patient Managment Systems (PMS) out there but hope comes with the release of MedicMac beta on 31 December 2004 from MacPractice. MacPractice is a company out of Lincoln, USA which has been working on a suite of management systems aimed Read More