You can choose your preference of View Options and if you’re like me you’d like to view everything at a glance. This can easily be enabled in the Finder View menu by opening the Show View Options window and checking the relevant boxes. Two of my personal favourites until recently, have been Show Item […]Read More
Tags : Mac OS X
Released in November 2005, Apple’s Broadband Tuner increases the default values for the size of the TCP send and receive buffers. With larger buffers more data can be in transit at once. A startup configuration file is also updated so that these changes will persist across restarts. Download Broadband Tuner and the installer will do the rest. […]Read More
Thanks to Titanium Software, now you can easily carry out maintenance, optimisation, and personalization on Mac OS X. Commands that otherwise, must be carried out using UNIX command line executions are now accessible through the OnyX GUI interface. It also makes it possible to configure certain hidden parameters of the Finder, Dock, and Safari, to remove a certain […]Read More
Keychain Access can be found Inside every copy of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, and previous incarnations of Mac OS X, in the Applications/Utilities folder. Often neglected, Keychain Access is the tool for keeping personal information private. Out of the box, Keychain Access functions as the utility that stores encrypted passwords system-wide. The cool thing about Keychain access […]Read More
Kudos to Alastair Tse, on his great effort to bring us closer to acquiring album art for our tunes. Whilst, Fetch Art is an effort to match album art from the Internet for your entire iTunes library; Alastair’s Album Art purports to search the Internet for the album art of the song currently being played over your iTunes. With a […]Read More
Apple introduced Front Row with the launch of its revised iMac G5 line-up. Featuring the Apple remote together with a built-in Apple iSight and its accompanying application, Photobooth. Some reviewers and sceptics have compared Apple’s Front Row efforts with Microsoft’s Windows XP Media Center, as being ‘basic’ or a copy of Microsoft’s popular one-touch remote media center. But right now, we’re […]Read More
Erasing files from your hard drive (emptying the trash), just means that you’ve told the Mac operating system to earmark those files to be over-written but they are not actually removed from the system entirely. In short, these files have just been made ‘invisible’ to the user whilst it awaits to be over-written. Such files […]Read More
Apple Mail 2.0.5 which ships with Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, now comes with a built-in feature that simplifies sending Windows friendly attachments through email. ‘Windows-friendly’ refers to the removal of resource files in attachments sent from a Mac system. Mac systems are based on UNIX file systems which uses forked files whilst Windows systems don’t. The […]Read More
Apple’s vision of creating computers that we can store our ‘digital lives’ on has reached its boiling point where most of us are doing just that. But what happens when the hardware fails? — a question often only realised when the hardware fails and important data is lost forever. Although, Apple has facilitated for this […]Read More
Because Max OS X facilitates the use of modifier keys that enable Mac users to boot up from alternative sources, or in FireWire Target Disk mode, it may be necessary as an additional line of defence against would be intruders, to implement an open firmware password. In a scenario where an intruder gains physical access to […]Read More
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