There’s a less known feature in Airport base stations that doesn’t really serve any useful purpose other than parading your quip remarks to people who log onto your WiFi network. Nevertheless, its a cool personal touch to make your WiFi network unique. You can either place a warm welcome greeting or scare off hackers who […]
Up to Mac OS X 10.3 Panther, viewing images as a slideshow could only quicky be done by a few means. Most of which require complicated processes, eg importing the images into iPhoto and creating a slideshow within it or downloading and using a third party application. Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, Read More
Many Mac users have asked how to burn a multi-session CDR without having to purchase expensive CD burning utilities. Not surprisingly this can be done using Mac OS X 10.3’s Disk Utility that ships with your Mac OS X. For those of you who are still scratching your heads, traditionally Read More
Since AOL linked ICQ and AIM, you can add ICQ users to your iChat buddy list. Add your buddy’s ICQ number, not alias, to the AIM field in your Address book. Then open iChat AV and choose to add them. Your Buddy must be using the newest ICQ Lite Read More
Regular users of Apple Mail will quickly realise that a function exists to import mailboxes but no corresponding functions exist to export them. Here’s advice on the best way to back up your important emails on Apple Mail. This article has been written because you asked, Mervyn. We hope Read More
Most road warriors will probably love Mac OS X’s ability to save different location settings for their Mac’s various network interfaces but its still a chore some times to have to swap locations when you enter a new WiFi networked area that you have already saved as one Read More
The new Mac switcher’s initial confusion with the Mac OS X file system is understandable but once you understand the principles that underpin the Mac OS X file system, things just get easier from there. In this article, we explain the ‘mystery’ of the Mac OS X file system Read More
Most of us have given iMovie a go in the most commonly used language medium, English. What about non-English input in iMovie? Is that even possible? Here are a few pointers that will save you heaps of time tinkering around. In this article we discuss using Traditional Chinese font in Read More
One of the coolest features of Mac OS X is its innate ability to handle most of the world’s languages right out of the box. This is because Mac OS X is Unicode compliant. Mac OS X does not only read and display foreign language fonts but it can Read More
One of the main differences in tech jargon that gets most new Mac switchers is the Mac term ‘alias’. In Windows speak, this is the Mac equivalent to ‘shortcut’. Learn to create and identify aliases in Mac OS X. Creating An Alias Select any folder and CMD + click or right Read More
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