As much as we love using the Mac, it has a flaw or two. One that sets my hair on fire has to do with the static Mac Menubar. It remains static and doesn’t move, even while you move app windows anywhere on the screen. On the surface, that sounds like a good thing. If … Continue Reading »

Have you ever had this problem? You want to send a giant file to someone and you can’t. Either their email server doesn’t take files that big, or their email inbox is already full. What can you do? Your Mac to the rescue. What you need is a simple little app that’s almost the perfect … Continue Reading »

What happens when your Mac starts up? Behind the scenes, all kinds of hidden things are happening. Various secret Mac apps start up to do this or that, one by one. You can control some of them in System Preferences > System > Users & Groups > Login Items. If you want Safari or Mail … Continue Reading »

Writers and programmers are similar. They both sling words all day, slaving over a hot keyboard to get just the write code-cum-phrases stacked together. That means both my wife and I are banging on a keyboard each day, often into the wee hours of the night. One of the differences is that what I write, … Continue Reading »

If Mac OS X Lion is worth $30 and can be downloaded from the Mac App Store and installed within minutes on your Mac, how much is an app launcher app worth that also launches web sites and files? Notice the trend in the Mac App Store. It’s toward lower priced apps. Developers supposedly make … Continue Reading »

In the Mincey household I’m known as the Queen of Lists. That’s worked out well for us, because my husband Jeffrey, is the King of Lists. Between us, the refrigerator, the Official Mincey Message Center, has more Post-it Notes than 3M. Everyone in the family has been digitized. By that I mean we all have … Continue Reading »

What’s the killer app of the 21st century? It used to be email. Then the browser. Maybe the killer app for the 21st century will be iCloud. At some point in the future everything we use on our Macs or iPads or iPhones will be stored in the cloud. Back here on earth we still … Continue Reading »

Yes, backing up your Mac is important. The real question is, What’s the best way to backup a Mac? Actually, the answer is easy. Get another hard disk drive, attach it to your Mac, and use Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper! to clone everything on your Mac. Now you have a backup. What happens if … Continue Reading »