Ever since Mac OS 10.7 Lion (2011), Apple has stopped shipping Restore DVDs with their Mac computers. Opting instead to rely on their Restore firmware (a.k.a. Internet Recovery) that is encoded onto every Mac’s logic board – which unfortunately requires an internet connection for any restore to be performed. For Mac OS X updates, apple […]Read More
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A great big thanks to Philipp Schmieder Medien and the guys and girls at Clipgrab, Germany for this superb application that provides a quick, simple and fast standalone application to download your favourite videos from a variety of online sites. Including: Youtube Vimeo Dailymotion Metacafe youku.com myspass.de myvideo.de clipfish.de With a simple interface and a true […]Read More
From completely dysfunctional to erratic functionality – Apple’s advanced three finger swipe gesture has been widely reported to be broken ever since the last Mac OS X Mountain Lion update to 10.8.5. Typically, the three finger swipe can be setup within the Mac OS X Trackpad System Preferences to be used to do any of […]Read More
Its unfortunate but some users have reported that Calendar syncing is once again broken after the recent iOS 7.0.4 update that according to Apple’s release is purported to fix FaceTime issues. Apparently, it has done more than that. To fix this you will need to delete plist files from your user LIbrary, that effectively resets […]Read More
You can stop the search for answers. Unfortunately, the short answer is – “Yes, Apple has gone and done it and. No. Its not a bug.” Its deliberate – read it here. Whether its in line with the software requirements of building convenient albeit complicated features and functions, e.g. predicting our travel time in Maps […]Read More
You don’t need to scour the internet any further for a freeware app that will help you resize images. If you’re running Mac OS X – you already have the app! All versions of Mac OS X ship with Apple Preview. Since its introduction Preview has over the years subtlety increased in features right under […]Read More
A whole world of Mac users owe a debt of gratitude to Stéphane Sudre for SaveHollywood which is a nifty add-on that has been the de facto freeware movie screensaver for Mac OS X for years. SaveHollywood represented a quick and easy means to be able to select movies or even Flash movies from locations in […]Read More
Apple has once again ‘included’ another commonly sought after feature within its standard application kit that ships with every Mac OS X 10.7 installation. As long as your Mac is installed with Quicktime 10.2 you can now perform high quality screen recordings of your Mac without having to buy any commercial screen recording application. While […]Read More
Ever since Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, the ability to encode videos (convert videos) into a format acceptable to iTunes and by extension all our iOS devices, iPhone, iPad and iPods has been built into the Mac OS operating system itself. Finder to be precise. With this ends the need to search endlessly for freeware […]Read More
Time Machine was introduced with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and since its inception has proven to be ‘the’ backup utility for Mac. Once you’ve gotten over the initial setup the rest is pretty much automated. The only problem is, setting it up tends to be confusing for some and its difficult to get a great […]Read More
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