For the road warrior, there are times we get caught needing to transfer files on the road, without the assistance of an USB thumbdrive or CDRW. Don’t fret, if your Mac portable is WiFi equipped, transfering files between WiFi equipped Mac portables is a breeze. WiFi is the preferred wireless medium to carry out file […]
Most people are familiar with Adobe Acrobat formatted(Portable Document Format or ‘PDF’) files. Its application becomes useful when you want to share a file that allows the receipient to view the file but not edit it. This is most common in educational materials made available to the masses and Read More
Mac OS X ships as a rock solid multi-user operating system, complete with the necessary security features that puts your fears of unauthorised access to your Mac to rest. There are several general security settings that you can set up for your Mac and these are strongly encouraged for the Read More
As intuitive as Mac OS X was designed to be, there are still times when we have to step in and tell it how to handle certain file types – setting a default application handler*. What this means is, setting it so that if you double click on a certain file Read More
Right me hearties, now that we’ve gone through setting up Apple Airport Base Stations, lets move on and apply similar principles to learn how to set up non-Apple base stations. Firstly, lets dispel the myth and get it out of the way, “yes, non-Apple base stations DO work with Read More
Continuing with our Bluetooth series, this article examines pairing Bluetooth phones with your Mac OS X powered Mac. One of the wonders of owning a Mac is the ease by which you can achieve a decent degree of automation from your Bluetooth devices. Including your cell phone. Find out why Read More
Firefox is one of those mac browsers which gives us a taste of what to expect in the coming Mac OS X 10.4, Tiger’s version of Safari that fully supports RSS. “What’s RSS you ask? Pop into our RSS Feeds page where an explanation is waiting for you. Read Read More
Loads of people these days are still hooked to the conventional idea of owning a fax machine to power their business or complicated personal lives but if you’ve got a mac and a telephone jack nearby, SOHO offices are quickly set up with a fax without the cost of Read More
Most users are not aware that Mac OS X comes built in with a screen capture tool that captures screens and windows into pdf format files with a strike of the keyboard. The following are the only shortcuts you need to remember(extremely useful if you’re grabbing information for Read More
Mac OS X is understated. It comes with so many freebies that most people don’t even realise what they have under the hood of their mac. When you buy a Windows system, you’ll probably need to download a copy of Winzip to be able to create compressed file Read More
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