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 all your CDs into Apple’s proprietary Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) format. Whilst AAC is touted to displace MPEG3 (mp3) as the de […]
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 the bells and whistles of a finely crafted addition to your family of icons Read More
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 as part of the Mac OS X bundle. Its absence in Mac OS X Tiger, only Read More
iTunes 6 is a gem for music lovers and now with the ability to play movies natively, you can now stop scratching your head and turn your Mac into a virtual MTV jukebox in a snap. You’re just a few clicks away from lazy days spent chilling out and winding Read More
New switchers to Mac from PC might feel a little at a loss without the need to hit the CTRL + ALT + DEL keys every so often but what if you want to monitor your Mac’s processes or force quit an application or process that is not obviously available in Read More
Most mac users may not notice but in the latest, update to Safari v.2.0.1 (412.5), Apple has introduced the ability to engage private browsing with one-click. Ideal for individuals who don’t appreciate their web surfing habits being tracked either by other users of the Mac system they regularly surf on Read More
Many users are puzzled or sense a feeling of loss when their Mac crashes. Don’t get us wrong. Macs are resilient but nothing is absolute. Not even Macs. As we align with Apple’s theme, that sporting a ‘digital lifestyle’ is about the hippest thing you can do this Read More
One of the things they don’t teach you in iTunes is how to toggle a bunch of tune checkboxes in a go. Most of us would have had the experience of manually unchecking and checking the checkboxes individually. The solution is actually quite simple. To toggle all the Read More
With the introduction of a built-in dictionary, Mac users can now look up words without accessing an application. Although, Dashboard seems the fastest way to find out meanings to new words you come across, there is a shorter, faster, way. To quickly find out the meaning of a word, Read More
Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger certainly packs a wallop not just in the fancy stuff. The latest built-in firewall has the guys (and girls) at Macriot impressed. Tiger now comes with user accessible advanced firewall features you would expect from firewall applications that you normally have to buy as an add-on Read More
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