Posts Tagged “mac”

“The Ultimate Mac Setup for Web Designers (60 Apps)” by David Appleyard of AppStorm is a robust list of Mac applications useful to Web Designers for working on design projects and managing their business. The list includes project management software, design software, text editors, applications for editing and encoding audio & video, file transfer software, [...]

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Apple has released a beta version of Safari. This new version of Apple’s web browser boasts a few flashy new features: See all your favorite web sites on the screen at once. Browse your history and bookmarks with Cover Flow. Improved tabs and browsing history search. A Windows-esque look and feel for Windows PC users. “Want to enable 1password in [...]

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AppDelete is Mac software that promises to delete all traces of an application. Like all other things in the Apple world, deleting an application is supposed to be simple — drag its icon to the trash. But this may leave behind various helper files in other places on your computer. AppDelete is intended to find and [...]

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I was doing a few few Windows-related tasks on a Mac with Parallels yesterday, and accidentally put things into overtype mode. Computers have two input modes: Insert Mode: When you type, the cursor inserts characters at the current position and shifts over anything that is found after its position. Overtype Mode: The cursor overwrites text that is [...]

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Google has finally released Picasa for Mac, which means all the great photo organization and editing features enjoyed by PC & Linux Picasa users are finally available to those of us on Macs. In “Bye Bye iPhoto”, Duncan Reilly says he never felt iPhoto came close to Picasa and I agree — iPhoto is fine for [...]

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You can print multiple pictures on one sheet of paper from iPhoto with a simple technique called CMD-click. Some newcomers to the Mac world find this task difficult since they are used to a completely different photo printing interface in Windows. It is possible — the techniques are just a little different. To print multiple photos, [...]

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“What’s the First Thing You Should Do with a New Mac?” by Chris Pirillo reader AYBABTU is a checklist of things to do after unpacking a new Apple computer. Of particular interest to me is point 2: calibrate your Mac’s display to reduce eye strain. According to AYBABTU, calibrating the display on your Mac is very [...]

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When the time comes to upgrade your Mac Pro’s storage capacity, you will discover that installing a new hard drive is dead simple. The inside of a Mac Pro’s case is very clean and organize, and installing a the new disk really requires a minimal amount of effort. This tutorial may be long, but that [...]

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If you are not backing up the files on your computer, you are tempting fate. Hard drives fail all the time — do you want to lose all of your documents, pictures, movies, music, and work materials? External hard drives are extremely cheap, and Apple’s Time Machine backup feature requires little more than for you [...]

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You may have seen our tutorial on transferring files over a network with OS X 10.4 Tiger… if you use Leopard, exchanging files between two Macs on a network is even easier. OS X 10.5 Leopard puts shortcuts to shared items right in the Finder’s sidebar. 1. Open the Finder Open up a Finder window and look [...]

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