Apple's Revolution Generation
Love them or hate them, the Mac is loaded with pop up dialog boxes. Most of the time we see them in Open and Save. To be honest, there isn’t much dialog going on here. The Finder’s Sidebar helps us to navigate our Mac’s files and folders, either to find a file to open, or … Continue Reading »
If you’re like me, you have a Mac loaded with many thousands of photos in iPhoto. It’s easy to make photo albums, share photos with friends, make screen savers, even enhance photos just using iPhoto. It even does movies, but nothing like those from this Mac app. All this praise is wrapped up into a … Continue Reading »
Is your Mac cluttered with apps you seldom use? Take screen savers. Please. A dozen screen savers of every design grace my Mac innards. It’s not a pretty sight. Did you know that screen savers don’t save anything, including the screen? Plain old black is better. Turning the screen off is better still. Why do … Continue Reading »
To paraphrase the theme song from a popular movie of the last century, If there’s something strange going on in your Mac, who you gonna call? Unless you’ve been hiding in a non-internet equipped closet for the past year, you’ve seen many, many MacKeeper ads on Mac-oriented web sites. If MacKeeper is so good, why … Continue Reading »
A quick search on MacUpdate the other day revealed a dozen Mac password managers. Some are free. Some are cross platform. Many are apps that store and manage more than login IDs and passwords. And most have some kind of encryption for security. Which Mac password manager do I use and why? First, let me … Continue Reading »
Mr. Mincey and I have a problem with the family Mac. He’s messy. I’m not. When he’s done with a session of using the family room Mac, I get to sit down to a screen with a dozen open apps, with a couple of dozen open windows, and they’re scattered all over the Mac’s screen. … Continue Reading »
Remember when a new version of a Mac app brought squeals of delight? Alright, how about mere curiosity about the new features that were sure to accompany the new version? Those days are gone. The browser isn’t dead. It’s simply gone crazy with some kind of exploding number scheme. If you’re keeping score, Apple’s Safari … Continue Reading »
For What It’s Worth Department, Suite 143. Mac users are, by nature, social animals, therefore, we need social tools. There’s Facebook, Twitter, Google +, Tumblr, MySpace, and a dozen more semi-quasi-ways to keep in touch with friends, family, acquaintances, strangers, thieves and predators. Leave it up to Mac developers to make it easy to socialize. … Continue Reading »
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