rEFIt is a boot menu and maintenance toolkit for EFI-based computers like the Intel Macs. You can use it to boot multiple operating systems easily, including triple-boot setups with Boot Camp. It allows you to avoid having to hold down the option key in order to select the OS you want to boot into as your Mac starts up, and provides a nice graphical interface instead.
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Overview & Installation: rEFIt – an OS X boot managerRead More »
This brief tutorial will show you how to use the iWeb “Web Widget” for Google Maps to insert a Google Map into your web site. …
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OS X 10.5 (Leopard) introduced an interesting new feature called “Web Clips”. Web Clips are sections of web pages that are turned into Dashboard widgets. While they can be quite a useful feature, one of the drawbacks is that resizing them, particularly to be smaller, isn’t as straight forward as you might expect. This tutorial will guide you in shrinking Web Clip widgets to suit your needs. …
This guide will show you how you can use a small (and completely free) App to make sure your MacBook doesn’t go to sleep when you close the lid. …
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Using Unplugged and Growl, you can get notifications when your power cable is unplugged (or plugged in). Continue reading for installation and usage instructions.
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This tutorial will walk you through the steps required to move one or more of your Dashboard Widgets from the Dashboard, to your Desktop. …
How to run Dashboard Widgets on your OS X DesktopRead More »
If you’re using Word 2008, even on a very, very fast Mac, you’ve probably noticed that Word 2008 can take upwards of a minute to open a .doc file. Here are a couple of tips to speeding up MS Word 2008’s opening time. …
Using the free tool uif2iso4mac you can quickly and easily convert UIF files to ISOs. Continue reading for a complete walk-through. …
This detailed guide will explain how to download all of your (or someone else’s) photos from Flickr using a small and completely free App.
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Without question, I find the column view of the macOS Finder the easiest to work in. One of my few complaints with column view is that I spend a lot of time resizing columns so that I can view full file names etc. This quick tip will show you how to resize columns in a snap. …
While migrating your data to a new Mac, or upgrading from a previous version of iPhoto, it’s possible that your iPhoto database may have become corrupt (all photos missing when you open iPhoto, errors when it launches etc). Fortunately, fixing it is quite simple. Follow the instructions outlined below and you’ll have all your photos back in no time. …
This very brief tutorial will show you how to enable a useful feature in Grid view of Dock item stacks. Why it’s disabled by default is beyond me, as it’s actually quite useful. …
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This very brief tutorial will show you how to change the VLC icon set from the pylon to a sleek black “play” button.
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This tutorial will guide you in getting iTunes to play .flac files. This works for iTunes version 7.4.1 and up (and Quicktime 7.2.0) running on OS X 10.6 or earlier. …
So you’ve installed Vista on your Mac using Boot Camp. But you’re tired of rebooting every time you need to do something in Windows. Using Parallels Desktop for Mac, you can access that Vista Boot Camp partition, and run that copy of Vista from inside of OS X. Follow the steps outlined below and you’ll be set.
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