‘tips for your mac’

Macs and iPhones are, like everything from Apple, rather nice pieces of kit. Despite the naysayers, the doom-mongers who go on about how they will one day be as inundated with viruses as PCs are today, they still help rather than hinder you when you’re trying to do work. A friend once pointed out the [...]

There are a number of keyboard shortcuts for the mac that are either direct mirrors of the ones for Windows (or more likely, Windows have mirrored Mac), or completely new.
First place to look is at a handy table of what all the odd symbols mean and their corresponding keyboard button. You can see that here [...]

Buzzwords ahoy!
I’m a hip and with-it computer internet person; running a business that is all about the web, you have to be!
Mailing lists are old favourites on the web and are based on the assumption that people like to receive email messages with information in them, be they specials you’re offering, general information or even [...]

It’s Finally Ready!

Google releases Chrome for Mac and Linux

Chrome has been out at least a year for the PC, but unfortunately for us on the Mac (and Linux by default) there hasn’t been anything to use but the rather good Safari or the (in my opinion) slightly disappointing Firefox.

I say disappointing with regard to Firefox [...]

TweetDeck by TweetDeck inc is a neat Mac app (there’s a Windows and a Linux version, too) for keeping your Twitter, Facebook and even MySpace account up-to-date without having to continually log-in.
It’s downloadable from the tweetdeck homepage.
The nice thing about it is that it’s relatively small and lightweight; so your mac won’t pop a cog [...]

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If you’ve got a home network and want to keep your addressbooks synchronised, you have a bit of a problem.
Sure, you can get a subscription to Mobile Me (formerly .mac) and have the details stored online, or even transfer everything across to a Google addressbook with your google mail account.
I didn’t want any of these; [...]

Onyx is a neat tool for Mac users which will go through the system and clean it up. It’s a bit like a good fast for your body, getting rid of the things that hang around to make your mac clean and healthy.
You should ALWAYS run a backup before you do anything like this though!
Download [...]

BlogThing is blogging software you can use from your mac to add pages or posts to your Wordpress site (it supports a number of other blog software as well, anything that supports XML-RPC in fact).
The powerful features include:

Drag and drop filetypes, complete with creation of thumbnail images
Fully-fledged help
Embedding video (up to 7MB if you’re on [...]

Here’s a really useful and free tool for the mac. Basically it organises the programmes so you can set one programme to do a particular task…
http://www.rubicode.com/Software/RCDefaultApp/