Macintosh Articles

One of the reported changes coming in Apple’s upcoming version of Mac OS X is the operating system’s default display gamma setting. It will literally change the way you see your Mac, so why not get started now? To provide some background…

Web designers and new media professionals who work with Adobe’s Flash multimedia platform would be doing themselves a huge favor by checking out the high quality tools provided by Eltima Software. Eltima Software offers two extremely…

Most people (myself included) are guilty of connecting their digital camera to their Mac, quickly throwing the most recently taken images into iPhoto, and then going on their merry way. As easy as that is in the moment, it will come back to bite…

YouTube, the world’s most popular video-sharing website, has recently introduced the ability to upload 720p high definition videos. Here’s how you can view and — even better — download them to keep on your Mac. Traditionally, the video quality…

Apple has released a Knowledge Base support article that details a fix for an issue that causes Software Update to freeze in the middle of an installation for users running Mac OS X versions 10.5 – 10.5.5. The problem stems from a bug that allows…

It’s coming down to crunch time this holiday season and, since gift-giving is already difficult to begin with, the pressure is on. No worries… you can put that extensive iPhoto library to good use and order Apple’s professionally printed products…

An upcoming video adapter will allow new unibody MacBooks and MacBook Pros to be connected directly to high definition television sets. Since Apple introduced the new aluminum MacBooks and MacBook Pros a couple months ago, there…

At some point, unless you are an extremely light computer user, most people will outgrow their Time Machine disk and need to migrate to a bigger one. Here’s how to do it without losing your backup history. As a Time Machine disk drive…

Whenever someone who’s new to Mac OS X uses the Dock for the first time, they’re always intrigued. At first it’s a love affair based on eye candy alone, but the Dock offers much more than just good looks. Once rookie Mac users actually…

One of the key productivity tools I use on a daily basis is the dynamic spell-checker built into the contextual menus of many Apple-made applications. Say you’re typing a document in a text editor such as Pages or TextEdit and you happen…

Macs are the most reliable and nonsense-free systems out there, but they’re still computers and will inevitably hiccup at some point. Don’t just sit there & stare when it does… Force Quit and end it already. Recent switchers and anyone…

Every once in a while you may decide that you no longer want certain data on your Time Machine drive, perhaps for free space concerns. To prevent future backups you would open Time Machine Preferences, click the Options button…