Last year, Apple realized impressive gains in notebook sales due in part to the widespread appeal of Apple’s OS X Leopard operating system and a switch to powerful Intel processors. Yet, jittery investors have sent Apple’s stock plummeting over 35 percent in recent weeks over concerns that the company’s recent income growth will not be [...]
How to Encrypt Your USB Memory Stick in Case of Loss or Theft [Mac Tip]
By Franklin Davis on Jan 30, 2008 within Apple, Tips | Comments
USB memory sticks are getting cheaper and cheaper while continuing to increase in capacity. This is great but also risky since now you have that much more information that can be lost or stolen. You can protect against your data falling into the wrong hands by creating an encrypted volume on the memory stick. [...]
Improve QuickLook Functionality With These 5 Excellent Plugins [Mac Tip]
By Franklin Davis on Jan 28, 2008 within Apple, Lists | Comments
One of Leopard’s 300 new features was QuickLook (QL), a utility that allows the user to view the contents of a file without even opening it. This ability to quickly preview files is one of my favorite new features in Leopard. QuickLook is activated by pressing the spacebar on any highlighted file or [...]
Save Time Everyday with These 23 Mac OS X Keyboard Shortcuts [Mac Tip]
By Franklin Davis on Jan 22, 2008 within Apple, Featured, Tips | Comments
Keyboard shortcuts are combinations of simultaneous key strokes that perform a particular task. Using these shortcuts (which often involve modifier keys such as command, option, control and shift) typically saves time because you don’t need to move your hand from the keyboard to the mouse. I use the following 23 shortcuts almost everyday [...]
Broken Link Yields 10 Percent Off Coupon Code for Elgato Store
By Sam Davis on Jan 17, 2008 within Apple | Comments
In the wake of MacWorld, the Elgato online store is offering 50 dollars off of select TV tuners for your Mac. These are great tuners and they are combined with the critically acclaimed EyeTV 3.0 software. As an added bonus, I discovered that if you following this link to the EyeTV 250 Plus and then [...]
MacBook Air Proves Optical Media Is Dying
By Sam Davis on Jan 16, 2008 within Apple | Comments
A few months back Franklin opined about how the titanic battle between Blu-ray and HD-DVD will ultimately end with both optical media formats losing out to the digital distribution of media. Well, the announcements at yesterday’s MacWorld of iTunes movie rentals and new Apple TV software that leverages iTunes rentals and serves up HD content [...]
Use SSH to Create Secure Tunnels for File Transfers (SFTP), Remote Desktop (VNC), Subversion (SVN), and Firefox Traffic [Mac Guide]
By Franklin Davis on Jan 4, 2008 within Apple, Guides, Linux | Comments
This guide will show you how to access a computer located on your home network from outside of your local area network. For the purposes of this guide, let’s assume we are trying to access a HOME SERVER such as a Mac Mini located on your home WiFi router. The home computer could [...]
2007, Apple’s Year to Remember
By Sam Davis on Dec 24, 2007 within Apple, Featured | Comments
Steve Jobs ended 2006 by proclaiming that, “2007 is likely to be one of the most exciting new product years in Appleās history.” Needless to say, he wasn’t just blowing smoke. Apple was on fire in 2007 as new and revolutionary products lured droves of consumers to Apple goods and launched Apple’s market capitalization (it [...]
A List of Mac Freeware Still Necessary in Leopard [Mac Freeware, Opinion]
By Franklin Davis on Dec 21, 2007 within Apple, Lists | Comments
As a followup to my last post about Mac freeware applications that Apple’s new operating system (Leopard) has mauled I decided to list some freeware applications that Leopard has left untouched and that I rely on daily. Some of these might not be necessary for everyone out there, but they certainly are for me.
Decorate your Mac for the Holidays
By Riley Porter on Dec 20, 2007 within Apple | Comments
There are only a few days left until Christmas, and I am definitely feeling festive. The tree is trimmed, presents are wrapped, cookies are baked, and now the only thing that remains is to bring some holiday cheer to my computer. Here I’ll show you some fun freeware that will help you “decorate” [...]
A List of Useful iTunes AppleScripts
By Franklin Davis on Dec 17, 2007 within Apple, Lists | Comments
Here is a quick list of the iTunes AppleScripts that I find useful. Some people may be surprised to find out that iTunes has ability to run AppleScripts (mac only). Not only are these scripts super easy to install but they might save you a lot of time or even add useful abilities [...]
Is Imitation the Highest Form of Mac OS X Flattery?
By Sam Davis on Dec 14, 2007 within Apple, Coffee Break | Comments
Some of the comments on Franklin’s latest post, titled “A List of Mac Freeware that Leopard has Mauled to Death”, has got me thinking philosophically. The gist of the post is that the increased functionality of Mac OS X Leopard may ultimately make Mac users less likely to use the third-party apps that formally [...]
A List of Mac Freeware that Leopard has Mauled to Death [Mac Freeware, Opinion]
By Franklin Davis on Dec 10, 2007 within Apple, Lists | Comments
When Apple’s new big cat first appeared at the Word Wide Developer’s Conference (WWDC) in August of 2006 and then pounced on the scene in October of 2007 it sent shivers down the spines of some small and large developers in the Mac community. Here I list some of the best Mac freeware [...]
How to Assign X11 to a Single Space in Leopard [Mac Tip]
By Franklin Davis on Dec 3, 2007 within Apple, Tips | Comments
I am enjoying Leopard’s Spaces.app quite a bit, especially now that I’ve fixed the Finder issue that was bugging me. However, one other issue which was of minor irritation was X11 and Spaces not getting along. As you might know you can easily assign /Applications/Utilities/X11.app to a space from within the Spaces’ [...]
How to Restart Unresponsive or Misbehaving Spaces in Leopard [Mac Tip]
By Franklin Davis on Nov 27, 2007 within Apple, Tips | Comments
I am enjoying Leopard’s Spaces.app quite a bit, especially once I fixed the Finder issue. Most of the time I experience no problems, however, occasionally Spaces starts to misbehave or becomes unresponsive. The most frequent problem I have encountered is that sometimes Spaces will stop switching to the space containing the [...]
