Tip Of The Day: Check for App Store Updates With Keyboard Shortcut
For me, the most annoying thing in iTunes is that to check for app updates I’m forced to mouse to the “Check for Updates” button in the lower right corner, and most of the times I miss the little arrow next to it with my cursor. I used to hate this. I’m saying “used to”...
100 Tips #46: Invert Your Mac’s Display Colors
Here’s a fun one. Whatever you’re doing on your Mac, from any application or any document, try hitting all these buttons together: Control+Option+Command+8. Bam! Your screen colors are inverted. Don’t worry, you haven’t broken anything, and this isn’t a bug. It’s a feature. To...The Finder’s Legendary Selections
The Finder’s Legendary Selections Terrific post by Mike Lee on the Finder’s selection behavior. Lots of things I didn’t know in there: If you’re not a software engineer building apps for the Mac, none of this really matters. It’s just an interesting bit of trivia you can use to not really impress anyone. If you...
5 Simple Steps for a More Manageable iPhoto
You know what I love about iPhoto? It's a great central storage place for my media that just about any OS X app can pull photos from. You know what I hate about it? Everything else. Here's a few tips to help alleviate some iPhoto frustrations.
100 Tips #44: How To Customize The Finder Sidebar
Waaaay back in Tip #9, I said we’d take a closer look at the Finder sidebar. Let’s do that right now. A Finder window has the Toolbar at the top. (We looked at how to customize it in Tip #11.) This is where you...100 Tips #43: What Is The Home Folder?
We’ve just looked at user accounts, and showed you how to go about setting up your own personal account. New accounts will be created with what’s called a Home folder. This is the area of the filesystem where everything created and edited by...Add Tasks To OmniFocus With Alfred
Add Tasks To OmniFocus With Alfred Don Southard shares an interesting tip on how to automatically fill OmniFocus‘ Quick Entry window using Alfred, a Spotlight replacement for Mac: Enter Alfred for Mac. A very handy tool that provides a very useful launch bar to OSX. The great thing about Alfred is that you can customize...
100 Tips #42: How Do User Accounts Work?
Mac OS X has a system of user accounts, similar to that found on Windows machines. Setting up user accounts on your computer is a good idea for all sorts of reasons. Each account is a separate, ring-fenced section of the computer’s system....Get an iTunes or Mac App Store account without a credit card
Parents, the safest way to keep your kids from accidentally spending your money in any of the iTunes stores, including the App Stores, is to give them their own iTunes Account that doesn't have an associated credit card.
Whether you want to let your k...
Manage How You Use Your Disk Space on Any Mac [How To]
Apple’s new 11-inch Macbook Air with a 64Gb SSD drive is said to be very popular and flying off the shelves at Apple Stores everywhere and beyond. It represents the smallest notebook computer that Apple makes and the default base model ships with the smallest...Tips for Giving Apps and Games as Gifts
Giving iPhone and iPad apps is a good way to buy for someone who generally doesn't wander far from the free sections of the App Store, but there's nothing really to put in a box under the tree. Not unless you get a little creative.
Holiday Tip: Make Room for New Gear by Donating the Old
You might be lucky enough to find a new iPod, iPad or even MacBook under the tree this holiday. All that new gear is bound to displace some old. Some of it you can probably continue to use, but here are some other options to consider.
