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How To Download YouTube Videos To Your Mac with MacTubes
If you’ve ever wanted to share a YouTube video with friends, but don’t want to keep streaming it over and over on your cell phone or over your laptop, MacTubes will work quickly and easily. Run MacTubes and search for a video. If you already have the URL, just enter it into the search box [...]
How To Turn Off Or Change Troublesome Keys In Windows
Do you often find yourself accidentally hitting the wrong keys on your laptop because of poor design or just messy typing? I know your pain. Some keys just get in the way. The solution to this problem is simple: re-map troublesome keys so they act like different ones or turn them off all together. You [...]
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 [...]
Quickly Clean Out and Organize OS X’s Launchpad
Launchpad brings an iOS style interface to your Mac, but it also brings app icon clutter to your Mac. Every app you have installed on the computer will have an icon in Launchpad, including those apps you never use. If you regularly use Launchpad, then you have probably spent a long time reorganizing the apps much [...]
How to Speed Up Your Internet Connection with OpenDNS or Google Public DNS
Two public free domain namer system (DNS) services got a speed bump this week, which could potentially speed up your home or office Internet connection. OpenDNS and Google Public DNS services allow users to substitute their Internet Service Provider’s DNS numbers with alternate DNS numbers, thus potentially speeding up your Internet connection and adding some [...]
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 [...]
OS X Lion’s New AirDrop and 4 Other Useful Tools
With the launch of OS X 10.7 Lion and the new MacBook Air, you may have just bought your first Mac or upgraded the OS and would like to dig deeper to learn to use it more productively. We plan to help you with some tips and help for the new Lion features and other [...]
How to Make a Mac OS X 10.7 Lion USB or DVD Install Disk
Installing a new operating system over the old one can create problems with stability. Apple disregarded these concerns with the release of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion by only allowing the initial release in the Mac App Store for download. A USB Flash drive version will become available in the future, but there is a [...]
How to Turn off Windows Aero: To Speed Up Windows 7
If your computer is not performing as fast as it should be, you can do some quick fixes to speed things up a bit. One of them is turning off the Windows Aero theme. Introduced in Windows Vista, this new experience focused on providing an elegant user experience for the Windows environment. Most modern systems [...]
How To Force Your Mac to Update Malware Definitions
Now that Apple updated OS X to automatically download malware definition files on a daily basis, you might want to know if you have the latest in order to protect yourself from things like MacDefender. Here is a step-by-step process to make sure you have the most up-to-date definitions. These definitions will be needed so that when [...]
