With the latest incarnation of iTunes (4.7.1) onwards, iTunes has adopted an inability to simply drag and drop tunes from anywhere within your iTunes library directly into an external source. What you’ll observe in so doing, is what seems to be a file transfer but nothing will appear to have been transfered to your thumbdrive (iPod Shuffle […]Read More
Tags : Mac OS X
The long wait is finally over. Apple announced the release date of the much anticipated update to their current, Mac OS X 10.3 Panther operating system. Although slated to be released from 1800hrs onwards on 29 April 2005 in USA, the international release dates are yet to be announced. Packed with more than 200 brand […]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 of your locations. You can make Mac […]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 and how to work with it […]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 iMovie HD. The principles taught […]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 also input foreign language fonts. In this article […]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 click if you have […]Read More
A quick search at The US Patent And Trademark web site, will reveal that Apple has recently registered ‘Bonjour’ as a trademark to replace ‘Rendezvous’. This change has been reflected in the latest Mac OS X 10.4, Tiger seed where all references to ‘Rendevouz’ have been replaced with ‘Bonjour’. The change comes in light of copyright litigation […]Read More
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 […]Read More
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 personal resumes. PDF files also have […]Read More
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