With Mac OS X 10.5 (a.k.a. Leopard) Apple has introduced a very nice new feature called “back to my macâ€. For those with a .mac account, you can now setup a secure way of accessing your Mac from on the road. Useful? Oh yes it is.
Category: How-To
Create a Media Browser Using Automator
If you haven’t noticed yet, each of Apple’s main creative suite applications including iMovie, iDVD, Address Book, Keynote, Pages, Numbers, and now, Mail’s Stationery feature, includes a photo browser whereby you can access photos stored and managed in your iPhoto and Aperture libraries.
Fun with Photo Booth
There are times when you know Apple does something right when, at first, you really don’t see the point. Case in point, Photo Booth.
Read MoreAdd a Mac to Your Home Theater on the…Well…Kinda Cheap
This article is a work in progress, as is my home theater installation. I also intend for this article to spawn several product reviews as I go along. Be warned.
Using iWeb 08
Part 3
One part of iWeb that you’ll get to know very well is the “Inspector†window. This box is what makes almost all the changes behind the scenes. iWeb relies on this box and its sub-windows for almost everything you’ll need to do beyond dragging and dropping graphics and text boxes. So let’s talk a bit about the Inspector.
Moving your iTunes Library
Thinking about moving your iTunes library from one drive to another? Guy Serle needed to make a similar move to a larger drive now that he can put video on his iPod. Read this article to avoid pitfalls.
Backup Automator Action
Say you’re working on a long-term project in which you’re creating and saving a number of different files over time, and you want to make sure you have those files copied to a back up source after you’ve saved them to a specified folder. Well, if you don’t already have a backup system in place to do this, you can create backup folder in less than ten minutes by following the steps below.
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Internet Basics
This installment of Macspiration is less on instruction and more on explaining. You see, recently, I have had to troubleshoot the internet for several family members. During the process the topic I am about to discuss came up over and over again. Based on those discussions, I figure there are others out there who could benefit from this Macspiration.
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Podcast Spring Cleaning
Have you ever deleted a podcast from iTunes and you are asked if you want want to move the deleted files to the trash? Find out how you can REALLY reclaim some hard drive space.
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Some Downloads for You
It has been a while since I suggested a bunch of downloads, so I figured it was time. Here’s a few freebies for you to check out. Some of these apps are donationware, so if you like them you might want to consider donating to the developer.
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How to Have a Messy Desktop (Without Having a Messy Desktop)
The Macintosh desktop is a special place. It’s the default target for incoming files, and things accumulate there. That is a good thing and a bad thing.
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Filter Your Email Through Gmail
If you are like most people you get SPAM (email not the food). Even the smallest amount of SPAM drives me crazy. I don’t even want to see it in a SPAM folder in my mail program. In my battle against SPAM I have started filtering my email through Google’s Gmail. Gmail has one of the best SPAM filters I have seen. It is very rare that a piece slips through
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Making a Signature for Your eMail
Want to learn how to use your actual hand-written signature in your email? Dan’s new colume, Mac Simple, kicks off with an easy to follow how-to on just that. An ongoing series of Macintosh How-Tos. Check it out!
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The Browser Link Menu
This week I’ll cover the third menu you can use in your web browser. I’ll call this the Link Menu, since it appears when you control-click (or right click) a link. As with the prior menus, the terms might be different from browser to browser.
Read MoreRead This! Vote Now! Vote Often!
MyMac.com Help Desk #12
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The Basic Browser Menu
Last week I discussed a browser contextual menu to use for images in websites. Well, there is also a “Basic Menu” (what I am choosing to call it) you can use to navigate your way through a site, and more. Like the menu discussed last week, this menu has different options in different browsers. It also might have different phrases for various actions. I’m just going to cover the standards.
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The Browser Image Menu
Have you ever found an image on a website that you wanted to print, or save, or do something else with? Saving the entire webpage won’t help, and printing the entire page for a little image is a waste of ink. Well, you can use a contextual menu which I will call the Image Menu for the purpose of this article. This menu is built into every browser, and accessible by control clicking (or right clicking) on an image in a website.
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A Macspiration Mini
This week’s Macspiration is a short one, but on that has the potential of saving you A LOT of money. A LOT of money, as in having to pay for computer repairs or buy a new one.
We Do Windows For Free!
MyMac.com Help Desk #11
Apple’s move to Intel processors has made it possible to run Windows natively on the Mac with Boot Camp or Parallels, but what about all the viruses and spyware and other threats lurking out there? McAfee, a leading security software company, states that there are over 180,000 threats that affect Windows. Here are some excellent free utilities that you can use to protect and care for your Windows installation.
Automate Your Favorite Desktop Images
If you regularly change your desktop images for particular purposes, you probably already know how to control click on your desktop and select Change Desktop Background to get the task done. But why go through that process when you can use an Automator action to change to your favorite or most used desktop backgrounds in one simple click.