Posts Tagged "MAC"

  • We have lot of nice apps available for Mac OSX that aren’t available for Windows.
    I’ve compiled a list of Mac Apps I have in my OSX dock that I use on a daily basis and should be useful to other Mac users and/or web designers.

    1. Adobe Creative Suite
    An obvious and primary requirement (I feel) all [...]

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  • Summary
    Besides changing the look and feel of your Mac interface, you can also let your Mac know how you prefer to work. This is done through preferences. You can set both system-wide preferences and application-specific preferences.
    For example, to configure settings for the TextEdit application, open it from your Dock or the Applications folder, then from [...]

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  • We’re fairly fortunate as Mac users to run an operating system which clean up after itself. I have never needed to re-format an OS X installation for a speed boost, but that doesn’t mean that we’re free from unnecessary files and caches taking up drive space.
    CleanMyMac is an OS X utility that helps to keep your [...]

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  • Who needs an overstuffed wallet with cracked plastic picture sleeves to show off your snaps? If you have an iPod or iPod Nano, you can quickly dump all your favorite shots from popular photo programs like Photoshop Elements or iPhoto right onto the iPod and view them on the iPod’s glossy color screen. (And even [...]

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  • Computer Files
    This section is all about programs that can be used to work with files and applications
    1) AppFresh
    Software updater is great for Apple applications, but appfresh has the ability to check thrid party apps for updates. A great little tool for keeping upto date.
     
    2) AppZapper
    Although applications are easy to uninstall on a mac there are usually small [...]

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  • Stickies is great for keeping notes and reminders on your Mac without having to go to the hassle of opening up iCal and creating a to do list. I’ve written about some of the great things you can do with Stickies in the past, but here’s a quick tip I just discovered.
    Often you will receive an email [...]

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  • Every year Apple rolls out another version of iLife. While iPhoto and GarageBand got major updates, some apps, like iWeb and iDVD, ended up being nearly forgotten about. Still, with updates come new features to figure out and a navigation that’s changed ever so slightly. 
    We dived right into the new suite and came up with [...]

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  • Key            Description
    C            Boot from CD or DVD drive installed in the computer
    D            Boot from the internal disk drive
    N            Boot from the network server
    R            Resets the display on PowerBooks and iBooks to factory settings
    X            Boot into MacOS X
    Shift-Option-Command-Delete    Ignore the configured boot device setting and scan for an alternate boot device
    T            Put the computer into [...]

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  • Taking a picture of your MAC’s desktop is as easy as pressing your keyboards shift+cmd+3 buttons. Note, don’t include the + symbols. They simply refer to ‘as well as’.

    Pressing your keyboards shift+cmd+3 will take a screenshot or desktop picture as some like to call it, of the entire screen, placing it on your desktop. It [...]

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