Safari is great but it has its shortcomings. Ever have those moments when you surf to a site that has PDF documents? In Safari, clicking on these PDF documents leads to a download of the PDF document onto your Mac OS X desktop. Wouldn’t it be great to be able to view the PDF document […]Read More
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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 Mac roadwarrior where your notebook […]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 type, Mac OS X […]Read More
These are some of the enhancements delivered with the Mac OS X 10.3.8 Update: Addresses an issue with Mac OS X 10.3.7 in which iChat, Mail, or other network-based applications could take a long time to open. Addresses an issue in which a computer wouldn’t always restart automatically after a power failure, even when the […]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 Macs!” Now that, that’s out of the […]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 you might want to run […]Read More
At some point everyone has used a mac version of MSOffice and once their done, ported the completed file to a Windows platform. How many times have you received that shocked email when the receipient of your file, comes back and screams at you that there’s “nothing” in your email or that you’ve sent duplicates of the […]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 purchasing and maintaining an actual dedicated […]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 an assignment): Keystroke Description Shift + Cmd […]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 and uncompress files that have been ‘zippped’ […]Read More
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