Tip

Gnomie rantom from our chat room writes:
Hi.
I’ve started to use OS X since last Friday (4th of July) and I did encounter a problem with it. So I decided to let you know about this so that you can tell this to other OS X beginners, in case you do see this helpful. Problem is [...]

iPod from our chat room writes:
I have some tips on keeping your iPod battery alive as long as possible (because we all hate the day where we have to replace it).

Dont keep your screen too bright! 50% brightness is a decent level. You don’t need it at a high level just to listen to music, [...]

Macs and PCs are just different. Not just at the operating system level, but even at the hardware side as well. I’ve always felt Apple hardware is a superior design in computer technology but its lack of forward delete on its notebooks has been one con to using a Mac. Now, if you [...]

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Can it be that there’s a way to trick Microsoft’s Windows XP Genuine Certificate of Authority install? Well, maybe. Take a look at my Device Manager from my Parallels Desktop install of Windows XP SP2. Note the devices, which Windows uses to make your configuration unique, are all general notations. Meaning, every Parallels install will [...]

It’s a well known fact that Verizon is not a friend of the Bluetooth camp. It likes to retard the Dail-up Networking (DUN) feature as well any file transferring (OBEX Exchange). Sometimes you find just simple syncing isn’t the easiest thing in the world, either.
Some find iSync and RAZRs compatibility less [...]

Hey, so you’re a bit bummed that your snazzy MacBook looks like trailer trash worked on it and want it cleaned, now, then there’s some hope. Go into the bathroom and grab your wife’s finger nail polish. Apply it to a cloth and do some rubbing and bingo, you’re back in business. [...]

What does one do with their 800MHz PowerBook of yesteryear when they have a snazzy and cutting-edge MacBook Pro? Leave it on its on Bookendz dock and let it sit. At least that’s what I did for the last three months, until a couple of days ago.
From time to time, we like hooking [...]

Call it funny, but this tech guy never really sat enough to learn how to play chess before. College was too busy with studding and, well, you know, stuff. Then work came into my life and more important things like Sony PlayStations. Okay, I never got one of those, either, but that [...]

If you’ve read your iTunes Music Store agreement well, you’ll remember that Apple is straight-up about what happens if your hard drive takes a dump. SOL (sorry out of luck :) ). But Lifehacker is reporting that there’s this dirty little secret that indeed you can re-download lost music. Lh couldn’t verify [...]

I don’t have the opportunity (read money) to get myself an Intel Mac. Luckily, Chuck, one of my readers, emailed me about his experience with Boot Camp. I thought it was a great tip. For obvious reasons I did not test this, but these tips might possibly save you lot of money and some [...]

After a summer of sweat in my office last year due to four computers running in my small office, I have consolidated down to one PC (desktop) and one Mac (notebook). Only the NAS, switch, and printers (laser and ink) are the other heat contributers at this point. In fact, I sit here [...]

You can’t have enough free disk space, right?
Someone pointed out to me that OS X uses a lot of caches, and that these caches use big amounts of disk space. I did some reading about this and found out that you can delete them without any trouble and these caches can hold multiple [...]

Ever wonder if that cool slot that sucks in your CD or DVD on you Mac (or car stereo) gets dirty? Think about it. Where does all the oil and dirt from your hand that gets transfered to your disc go when you slip it in into the slot? Good question and [...]

With every new Intel Mac, lucky users now get the infamous Apple remote. Infamous because it works with the new FrontRow software that comes with the Mac. But GNUHAUS has found more uses for your Apple remote that will broaden the horizons of it’s use.
Much like the Griffin Technology’s AirClick remote, [...]

The first MacBook Pros are making their way into the wild and outside of the PowerBrick power adapter that’s bigger then the state of Road Island, the big topic of discussion is its battery power being in the range of 2.5 hours for “normal” use. Ouch! Add a DVD spinning into that equation [...]

One thing I hate, hate, HATE, about Windows is when my system drive dies or becomes corrupted.  Totally out of luck when that happens.  Sure, I have backups and restores will get me back and going…hours later and with some (okay, more like a lot) stuff not totally working, but it’s better then no restore [...]

Backups - few things about working with computers come close to being as important as backups. If you are lucky, you learn your lesson (painful as it may be) about Backups the first time you watch hours / days / weeks / months or even year worth of work, fun, family memories, etc disappear into the ether when your hard drive fails.

So, after picking up one of the new Core Duo iMacs, it became apparent that the amount of RAM that ships with the system is virtually unacceptable for the day to day usage of someone who works heavily with multimedia. Having attempted RAM installation on my last iMac, I knew this one would be a [...]

When you want to make a screendump from your favorite DVD, this is how you do this in OS X 10.4.x.

Go to the part of the movie you like and hit the pause button in the DVD controller.

Press the play button and immediately press Command-Shift-4. It is important to do this instantly, otherwise you get [...]