Tag: Apple OS X
OS X Shortcuts for Cutting Copying and Pasting
Here are some great OS X shortcuts for cutting, copying and pasting text. When copying or pasting text, most people select the text and then use the Edit menu and choose the Copy command or the Cut command. Then they move their cursor to the new place they want to place the text and again [...]
How to Unhide the Library Folder in Lion’s Home Folder
The new Mac OS X 10.7 Lion is great! There are a few mildly annoying changes, though, like the fact that they’ve hidden some folders that you need access to every once in a while. One of those is the Library folder, which I had to unhide recently. While working with a program I learned [...]
How to Get the Most Out of Lion’s Launchpad
With the release of Apple OS X 10.7 Lion, a new iOS style program launcher called Launchpad displays program icons in columns and rows just like your iPhone or iPad. We want to show you how to get the most out of the new feature and help you decide if Lion is a worthwhile upgrade. [...]
How to Use OS X Migration Assistant to Set Up a New Hard Drive
The OS X Migration Assistant can help you move data to a new hard drive in a fraction of the time it would take to do manually. When we replaced the hard drive in a MacBook Pro with a 128GB SSD the process took far less time that it would have otherwise. We decided to [...]
MacDefender Defeats Apple Update, Use Chrome to Avoid It
MacDefender has morphed into something that only hours after Apple updated OS X to “defeat” the threat is able to defeat Apple’s defenses. AppleInsider reports that the new package is called “Mdinstall.pkg” and it gets past the security update Apple just released. We were hit today with the warning while doing some searching for images [...]
Apple Acknowledges MacDefender with Temporary Solution and Promised Fix
The MacDefender malware and phishing scam that has been wreaking havoc on a few Apple customers was finally acknowledged by a post on the Apple’s Support site with an explanation of the problem, instructions for avoiding it and removing it, and a promise that a future update will deal with the problem more permanently. The [...]
Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: New Hidden Feature Roundup (And What’s Missing)
We already know what’s officially new in OS X 10.7 Lion, but now that the masses have had a weekend to dig into OS X Lion we know more about what’s coming to Macs this summer, and what’s missing from OS X Lion. The new features listed below are in addition to the announced changes [...]
Mac OS X v 10.7 will not have an App Store
Right now, Apple developers are testing version 10.6.4 of the Mac OS X operating system. But, there is already a lot of discussion about version 10.7, not due out until sometime next year. The biggest speculation was the idea of a Mac App store being built into the operating system, which would only allow the [...]
Mac OS X gives Adobe Flash a hardware boost
It is widely known in the Apple community that running Adobe Flash on the Mac OS X platform has performance issues. It lags and is slow. The Windows OS version of Flash has always managed to work better. But now, it looks like Apple, who has a love/hate relationship with Adobe these days due to [...]
Timeline of the iPhone in pictures
Well, its only a few hours until the iPhone 4.0 event. There is a lot of anticipation in the air and on the Internet. Everyone wants to know what is coming next? What will the new “wow” factor for the iPhone be? What changes will there be to the operating system? What changes to the [...]
