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 men...

In Lion you need to unhide Library to get to folders like Preferences

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 eve...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 w...

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 Ma...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ne...

Mac Update to 10.6.3 available

For all you MacBook and MacBook Pro users, as well as the Mac mini folks, its update time once again. The new 10.6.3 release is now available for download via ...

Apple Doesn’t Announce Upgrades to Macbook, Macbook Pro and MacBook Air

Today at the Apple Tablet event Apple announce the brand new Apple Tablet called the iPad, but they didn't announce updates to their Macbook notebooks including...

CES- I Heart the iLounge

One of the large pavilions here at CES is called the iLounge. And, as you can guess from the name, its al things Apple and Mac related. And, since I am one of...

Taking out the Trash with TrashIt! for Mac

I have been a Mac user for several years now. And, luckily, for the most part, it works fine. Until the other day when I needed to delete over 1 GB of data from...

OSX 10.6 “Snow Leopard” Ships on August 28th

Normally when the Apple store goes offline its return is met with cheers of Joy for new Apple products but the brief outage this morning didn't bring the chorus of cheers that the actual release of Snow Leopard would. Thankfully Apple did announce the new features of OSX 10.6 that Snow Leopard will ship on August 28th.

Apple Announces Snow Leopard OS, $29 to Upgrade

Today's a big news day for Apple with their annual WWDC in San Francisco. OS X has been updated to 10.6 and will be called Snow Leopard, which will be offered at an upgrade price of $29 for single users and $49 for a 5-license Family Pack. Users of Snow Leopard will notice a performance increase over previous versions of OS X thanks to increased implementation of 64-bit software that can utilize greater than 4GB of RAM while seeing a net increase of roughly 6GB of storage space thanks to a streamlining of the OS footprint. Check out the full press release below: