Every Mac comes with a bunch of useful applications– Safari, Mail, iPhoto, Calendar and Contacts, iTunes, Garageband, FaceTime, Pages, Numbers, Keynote. You get the idea. Great apps all, and built-in to every Mac. What’s not baked in to every Mac are those useful little utilities that do this or that to make a Mac … Read More »
Archives for January 2015
What You Get When A Mac App Does More Than The App’s Name Implies
Naming schemes for applications and products have always intrigued me. Apple. Macintosh. Not descriptive, but memorable. Microsoft Word is obvious. So is Pages and Numbers, but Keynote not quite so much. Safari? Surfs the web. Mail? Obvious. So are Contacts, Calendar, Messages, Notes, Maps, and Reminders. iTunes is way off base but started on … Read More »
How To Restore Specific Browser Tab Sessions In Safari Automatically And Free
How many ways can you restore a browser tab session in Safari? That’s a question you have to think about for a moment. Let’s say you’ve opened up five or six browser tabs on sites you visit regularly. And, you’d like to view those sites every day or two. Safari’s bookmarks do the deed. … Read More »
Get Automatic Folder And File Sync On Your Mac
One of the best things you can do for yourself and your Mac is to have a good backup system. Time Machine is not enough. Neither is a clone backup. Online backups are tedious to get started initially, but good for a solution to a catastrophic problem with your Mac (flood, fire, theft, tornado, … Read More »
How To Put Mac App Windows Where They Belong
Every Mac user with power user inclinations has the same problem. The Mac’s screen real estate can get clogged up with too many apps and their windows. From big screen iMacs to MacBook Pro models with Retina display, there are just not enough pixels on a screen to handle the app window clutter for … Read More »
A Better Way To Watch YouTube Videos On A Mac
Maybe the world doesn’t really need yet another YouTube video player but here’s one that makes the viewing process a bit more palatable and useful. It’s called TubeG for YouTube and it does for video watching what you’d like– moves the video from the browser window to a separate window on the Mac. Most … Read More »
The Price Of Making A Mac’s Screen Look And Work Like An iPhone’s Screen
Slowly but surely Apple is moving the basic look and feel of iOS on the iPhone and iPad to the Mac. Look at all the apps on an iPhone or iPad screen. That’s the launchpad. Tap on an app and it launches. Guess what? There’s a Launchpad on the Mac, too, and it works … Read More »
Free: Artificial Intelligence Proofreading And Grammar Checking On The Mac
Every so often someone of great notoriety and scientific acumen with obvious intellect and credentials comes along and says something like, “Beware of the future. Artificial intelligence will doom mankind.” Remember, Skynet from the Terminator only looked like a bad idea from the future. For Mac writers interested in improving both writing skills and … Read More »
Last Chance: Rip DVD’s To ‘Backup’ On Your Mac
How many Macs come with a SuperDrive these days? That should tell us something about the CD and DVD industry. It’s dying. For those of us with large CD and DVD movie collections the handwriting is on the wall. It’s time to back them up and get them stored, archived, saved. Add this Mac … Read More »
How Many Ways Can You Shut Down A Mac?
If necessity is the mother of invention then we have a reason for Hypnotize, the clever and free way to set a timer to shut down your Mac. Uh oh. This might be a very short app review. Hypnotize resides in the Dock and has a standard array of shutdown minutes, starting with 15-minutes, … Read More »
Cheap: How To Turn A Static Mac Desktop Into A Dynamic Mac Desktop
Look at your Mac’s Desktop wallpaper. For most of us, the Desktop wallpaper is comprised of either a photo or an image of something (and, perhaps a colored background). Most of the time we don’t even see the photo it’s covered up by a bunch of open app windows. Therein lies the single problem … Read More »