In the nearly 10 years I’ve been running OS X, it hasn’t happened to me yet, but the day when I stare blankly at my Mac’s login screen is coming — it’s just a matter time. Thereupon, it’s better to be prepared for the inevitable, so read this tutorial, print it out and put it where you can find it when the time comes.
Looking to free a big ol’ chunk of drive space? Is your Time Machine back up directory giving you grief and you’d just rather start over again? Here’s a quick and easy way to just make it go away.
When Apple shipped Snow Leopard, one of the most powerful ways to extend Safari got broken in the mix, taking with it one of my favorite add-on features. It’s taken some time, but required input manager and utility suite itself have all been refreshed, bringing them up-to-date.
When it comes to Web browsing, Flash is a primary source of both insecurity and instability, not to mention unadulterated annoyance even when Adobe’s proprietary multimedia middleware does its job. Here’s a quick, easy and free way to precisely control where and when, if at all, you choose to use Flash.
Whether you’re out of hard drive space or just want to tidy up, here’s a quick, easy and free way to deep six files lurking inside Apple’s Panther, Tiger, Leopard and even Snow Leopard operating systems. Pour yourself a fresh cup — caffeine is the secret sauce in any Mac maintenance job — and let’s get to work.
With its Nitro JavaScript and WebKit browser engines, Apple’s Safari is perhaps the fastest browser available from any vendor today. That doesn’t mean, however, that things don’t go wrong. Here’s another take on making Safari live up to its speedy pedigree.
First things first. We need to be clear that these aren’t the droids you’re looking for and that you don’t want to sell me any death sticks. Now, before you go home to reconsider your life, let me show you a neat little piece of software you can use to remotely control your Mac and do it very fashionably at that.
Whether you want to find, import and manage lyrics or use Apple’s iTunes Store to find music and then buy it on the cheap from Amazon, there are plug-ins out there just for you. Here’s a mix of 10 must-have free, shareware and commercial iTunes add-ons from the large and very, very active community of developers that has grown up around this iLife application’s various shortcomings.
Apple’s WebKit-based Safari browser is pretty fast and quite compatible. Nevertheless, it’s not everyone’s cup of tea and, if you’re a social media maven, it’s not endlessly extensible like Firefox. Here’s how to change your default browser Safari to anything and back again.
It is possible that what was missing from the Apple event this week is much more interesting than what was included. What does that tell us about Apple and the rumor mill?
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