This brief tutorial will show you how to share files and folders between the guest OS (Windows) and the host (OS X) using Parallels. …
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Similar to How to install Ubuntu in OS X using Parallels – a complete walkthrough, this tutorial will take you every single step of the way through installing Windows Vista using Parallels for OS X. …
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This guide will take you step by step through the process to change the location where screenshots are saved in macOS, and how to change the default format (PNG) to JPG, GIF, PDF and several other image formats. …
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This guide will explain what Folder Actions for macOS are, how to set them up, and provide help for you to create your own Folder Actions. …
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This guide will explain what Smart Folders are and then take you step by step through the process of creating your own Smart Folder in macOS. …
This guide explains how to install X11 in OS X. However, X11 is no longer a part of macOS (since OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion). Apple now suggests users to switch to XQuartz project (more info here).
Starting with OS X 10.5 (Leopard) X11 came installed by default. Unless you went out of your way not to install it during the Leopard installation, you’ll find it in /usr/X11
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Love it or hate it, Finder is the default file manager for macOS. But there are other choices out there, and this article offers reviews, screenshots and links to download 10 different alternatives. …
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This guide will explain what lossless audio is, how to convert lossless audio files (flac, shn) to mp3, how to burn lossless audio to CD etc. Windows and macOS are both covered. …
Straight from the horse’s mouth – Apple says this of the macOS Terminal:
UNIX users will feel at home in Darwin, the robust BSD environment that underlies Mac OS X. That environment is accessible at any time from the Terminal application.
OK, that’s nice and all, but what about us non-UNIX users? …
This tutorial will take you step-by-step through the process to burn an audio CD from FLAC files in macOS, using completely free software. …
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You’ve downloaded some .shn files and realized that they won’t play on your MP3 player or phone – or that they’re really big and take up too much space. This guide will walk you through the steps to convert SHN to MP3 in macOS so that the files will play on any device, and the file sizes are much more manageable. …
It’s an old tip originally published back in 2006, but it’s still relevant today in 2020 with macOS 10.15.
One of my former co-workers taught me this neat trick – while using Finder, move your mouse cursor over the “title” of the current folder you’re viewing
Hold down the Apple Key and click the title – the whole path is revealed and you can jump to a folder by selecting it.
2020 Update: this guide is now only relevant if you have an old Mac running OS X 10.6 or lower. The vast majority of the features available in Growl are now built into macOS (OS X Mountain Lion (version 10.8) or higher) via the Notifications. This guide remains online for those of you running 10.6 or earlier.
This tutorial will guide you in downloading, installing and setting up Growl, a notification system for Mac OS X. Notifications are a way for your applications to provide you with new information (new email arrived, one of your IM buddies came online, a file finished transferring etc) without you having to switch from the application you’re already in… …
This very brief guide will explain how to play FLAC files (and .SHN files) in Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS and Android. …
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This guide will show you how to change your screen resolution in both Windows and macOS. …
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