My guilty little secret is that my ugly Asus Eee PC 1000HE netbook is my favorite Mac laptop.
It’s certainly not the prettiest (a Frankenstein) or the most powerful (a sloth) but it’s the one with the twenty hours of battery life spread between two interchangeable...Insanely Mac Launches MyMacNetbook.com, a Resource for Hackintoshing Netbooks
My guilty little secret is that my ugly Asus Eee PC 1000HE netbook is my favorite Mac laptop.
It’s certainly not the prettiest (a Frankenstein) or the most powerful (a sloth) but it’s the one with the twenty hours of battery life spread between two interchangeable...How-To: Image Snow Leopard to a Hard Drive for Quick Install
Whether your hard drive has failed or your OS has become corrupt, you may occasionally have to reinstall the Mac OS. Fortunately, Apple does a beautiful job of making installing or reinstalling your operating system relatively painless compared to our Windows brethren. Unfortunately, it’s still [...]
How-To: Rediscover Your iTunes Music
If you have hundreds or even thousands of songs in your iTunes library, then it’s more than likely there are some songs which you’ve forgotten you even own — you can’t listen to every single one at the same time, after all.
By using iTunes’ Smart Playlist [...]
iTunes 201: Using smart playlists to fill your portable’s music library
Filed under: iPod Family, How-tos, iTunes
Unless you don't listen to a whole lot of music, chances are pretty good that your iTunes music library is larger than what will fit on your iPhone. As an example, my music library...How To Get MobileMe For Free Using Google and Dropbox [How To]
A couple of weeks ago I canceled my MobileMe account. Why? Because it didn’t do the one thing I wanted it to do: share my calendar with my wife so we could coordinate our busy lives. That’s all.
I love MobileMe’s email, calendar, contact syncing...Tip: Cheap iPad Stand
It is said that necessity is the mother of invention. While eagerly awaiting my iPad to arrive — is it April 3 yet? Pleaaaaase? — I had a stream of consciousness that went something like this: I like baseball; the iPad is a decent size to watch a streaming game on MLB’s iPhone app while...
How-To: Create a Custom User Template in Snow Leopard
Setting up your OS to your liking can be an art for some. What if you need to set up Snow Leopard to present every user with the same look and settings? By following these steps you can have every user who logs into the machine receive the same look, feel and preferences that you...
How-To: Stop iTunes Web Links From Opening iTunes
A piece I wrote last week on the impact of iTunes web preview pages on App Store SEO brought up a little side conversation about how many people found it annoying that the links launch iTunes automatically. Sometimes you don’t even have any warning that the link is going to launch iTunes if you click...
MSI Wind netbook hackintoshed into a poor man’s iPad
In the Hackintosh community, the MSI Wind is somewhat legendary for being the first netbook out there that could essentially run OS X out of the box, with all features working and no hardware hacking required.
Now it looks like the venerable Wind has another Apple...Video How-To: Printer Sharing on a Mac
The following how-to video will walk you through the basics of printer sharing on the Mac. You’ll learn both how to set up and how to access printers on a network.
We will cover the following points:
Setting up Printer Sharing
Printing to a Shared Printer
Adding a Printer via System Preferences
You can watch the embedded video below (lower...
DIY iPhone Steadicam stabilizes video, but adds a lot of bulk
This iPhone 3Gs video camera stabilizer is probably too extreme a DIY project for anyone to actually carry out, but if you choose to brave Google Translate’s gobbledygooked English translation ofthese Japanese instructions, you should be able to get the jist and make your very own...How to: Get your 1984 Mac running Snow Leopard
Filed under: OS, Cult of Mac, Mods
