Some music and app fans enjoy the Genius function in iTunes, and some don’t. It’s gone through very limited changes since Apple added the function to iTunes in 2008. However, as devices have been added to the iTunes repertoire, they’ve arrived with iTunes and Genius, meaning everything that has iTunes also has the Genius capability.
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Using iTunes Genius on Mac, iPhone, and iPad
By | July 18, 2011 | 4 Comments
How to Change Dock Icons on a Mac
By | July 13, 2011 | 1 Comment
There are many reasons to change the icons that appear in the Dock on our Mac, and it’s easy enough to do, leaving you no reason to have to stick with the ones that are automatically attached to files and folders. If you want the dock icons to be something more personal to you, to all match a particular theme, or just have a change of pace, you only need to change the actual icon for that particular app or folder. It’s that easy,
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How To Back Up Your Google Docs
By | July 7, 2011 | 4 Comments
Cloud storage is a good thing, since it allows you to store a great deal of data without taking up all of your system’s storage space. It also allows you to share your files with your co-workers, or your friends, without having to send out mass emails or break up larger files into multiple parts. However, like all forms of storage, it can go awry and it can never be trusted 100% of the time.
Regardless is cloud or local storage, as long as the file is important to you, you know that it is necessary to create a backup of it. We have covered many local backup solution. Today, we are going to show you how to back up your Google Docs.
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Pixelmator: A Great Alternative to Photoshop In Mac
By | July 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Sometimes things that seem like they should be difficult are actually very easy, and sometimes the opposite is true. Things that seem like they should be easy are actually very difficult. You would assume that editing images for the web would be easy, yet that’s not always the case.
The more we progress through this digital age, the more important image editing becomes. Before, only people who worked in photography or printing needed good image manipulation, but now everyone needs it. It’s so much easier to save photos digitally than in physical snapshots, and manipulating them has never been easier.
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How to Add Extra Docks In Your Mac (Snow Leopard Only)
By | June 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment
The dock is a great way to store the programs that you use all of the time and do not want to dive into the applications folder in order to find it each time you want to use it. Of course, if you have a wide variety of programs that you use on a regular basis, you may find that your dock is getting crowded and that the convenience is less than it was before. What do you do with the conundrum of a convenience that is no longer convenient?
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Transfer Documents Wirelessly From iOS Device to Mac
By | June 29, 2011 | 3 Comments
As the tech world continues to complete the transition from being completely wired to completely wireless, it’s very close to being completely wireless, whether it’s phones, computers, game systems, etc. While Apple’s iTunes is now able to transfer non-music documents completely wirelessly, other apps still have a long way to go. A year ago no one would have thought it tedious to be wired to exchange files, but now it seems to be a chore to connect with wire.
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How to Share a Screen With Another Mac Over a Network [Mac]
By | June 27, 2011 | 3 Comments
With all the talk lately of easier file-sharing with cloud services, one of the more useful sharing option I still use is screen-sharing within my local network. This option in OS X Leopard enables me to not just see, but also control, the screen of another computer in my home. Having teenagers, I just can’t beat its usefulness.
To set up the computers so that they can share screens, open up “System Preferences” and find the “Sharing” option in the Internet and Wireless row.
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Getting Help for Your Apple Products At The Genius Bar
By | June 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Apple makes it easy to find the help you need for your Apple products, whether they be Macintosh desktop computers, laptops, iPods, iPhones, iPads, or even software. And it’s good help, in fact it’s genius help. In each of their retail stores, Apple has a unique service/help desk they refer to as the “Genius Bar”. It’s a place to go whether you believe you need your non-functioning hardware serviced, or whether you’re just confused about how to work something and need some help.
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Downloading Songs to iTunes From Previous Purchases
By | June 20, 2011 | 1 Comment
While Apple won’t release the iOS5, Lion, and iCloud software packages for some time yet, they instituted an update to iTunes that will allow you to access to any songs you previously downloaded through the music catalog. It’s something that doesn’t seem that great until it’s actually in use. Only then can you see the magnitude of that one small update.
Under iTunes 10.3, it looks very much the same as any other build of iTunes, but it has the one key difference in that it’s already working within the confines of the cloud. Much has been said about the cloud, but it seems more like a mysterious and ominous entity. For anyone that has any doubts about it, this slight occurrence of it in iTunes should give a hint of how great it could be.
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How to Protect Your Mac from MacDefender
By | June 10, 2011 | 1 Comment
One of the advantages of owning a Mac over the years has been the extremely low chance of being affected by a virus. While PC users had this as a constant worry, Mac users escaped. This difference existed because for a long time, there were so fewer Mac users that it wasn’t worth the time of the evil-doers to create such a virus. Recently, however, a malware titled MacDefender has popped up with the ability to affect Mac users via Safari.
MacDefender isn’t a virus, but a fake antivurus that tries to get you to install it to your system. If it succeeds, it then either tells you your system has already been infected, or shows you fake evidence that your system already has a virus. It asks you to buy the full version of MacDefender with your credit card to fix all your problems and get your Mac running normally again.
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