If you are like me and use multiple monitors, you can quickly, and easily I might add, make the wallpaper on all monitors the same. Open “System Preferences” and go into “Desktop & Screen Saver”. A window will show up on each monitor. Move them closer to each other for more ease. Click and drag the preview of the wallpaper …
17in Macbook Pro Harddrive Replacement
When you live in Rapid City, Fargo, or anywhere in between, your Mac repair choices are slim, even slimmer if the closest town is a good 60 miles away. Recently I had a person from North Dakota contact me whose 500G harddrive died on her beautiful 17″ Unibody Macbook Pro. So where I come from, replacing a harddrive is only …
Save Some RAM: Disable Dashboard
Mac Users: I don’t really use the Dashboard anymore. Let’s face it- it use to be cool right? Ya, I don’t know. So as it goes, even if you don’t use the dashboard or any widgets, it still takes up your precious memory – resources that could be better used updating your MAMP wordpress site, or ripping DVDs with handbrake. …
iPad in Business
I am currently heading a project to deploy iPads in a corporate environment. We have purchased 20 32G Wi-Fi + 3G ipads for our research and development and deployment plan. Straight off the bat, iPads in business present a set of troubling issues. The first thing we asked is “How is this iPad going to be used?” We know that, …
Raising an iMac from the Dead
This is a story of a sick iMac and it’s quick recovery…don’t worry, there are pictures…. I was recently asked to fixed a Mid2007 aluminum iMac. The user reported that it wouldn’t turn on anymore. I immediately did some basic troubleshooting to determine what the heck was going on….check the power cable, the outlet (ya, no brainers- but ya gotta …
Great Mac Finds: Fine tune your volume
Sometimes you come across a tip that makes you go “Yes! Thank you. I needed that.” (Hopefully that’s what tech4eleven.com brings you regularly.) Today a tip came across my RSS feeds from OSXDaily.com on how to fine tune your Mac’s volume. In one sentence, they write: “You can precisely adjust the volume levels on a Mac by holding down the …
Snap windows with Cinch
Disclaimer: Although in my day job I work with PCs, I am Mac guy through and through (thanks to my wife). With the release of Windows 7, however, there are a few features which I wish OSX had. Shhhh. Don’t tell anyone. Built into Windows 7, you can quickly drag a window to the right edge of your screen and …
Ode to Macbook Repair
Hello my name is Cory and I abuse my Macbook Pro. Yes, admittedly I’ve used my early 2008 macbook pro pretty hard, extending the capabilities of its processor speed and memory, sliding it around on the coffee table, dropping it on its corner, ripping and burning dvds, and, the greatest tragedy, leaving it out around my two kids. In this …
Another Cat’s Outta the Bag: Apple iPad
It’s everywhere now, Apple’s new iPad. 10 inches of Apple quality design and interface goodness. And relatively cheap @ only $499 for the Wi-Fi only 16GB model with the most expensive model @ $829 for the 3G 64GB. Not too shabby. Steve Jobs claims that it’s the best browsing experience you’ve ever had. And it must be if you can …
ScreenCast: Quicktime X
Screencast featuring the new Quicktime X in Snow Leopard ScreenCast: QuickTime from cory on Vimeo.
Remember Y2K with a Secure Backup
So yeah, happy new year! While I’m stuck at work for the rest of the night there’s no better time to talk about securing your Mac with a backup than now, whilst remembering the “dawn of Y2K” was just yester-year, when loosing everything was all the rage. I recently happened upon a great deal on a 1TB Apple Time Capsule …
Mail.app RSS Feeds not Working
I found this perfect solution to Mail.app RSS reader NOT pulling in feeds. Its been this way for about 2 days now, that I’ve noticed, but after executing this quick terminal command I found on an Apple Discussion board, Leopard’s Mail app RSS reader will be back to normal. 1. Quit Mail 2. Open Terminal (cmd+space bar, type in “Terminal”) …
What Will Work with 10.6?
Thanks for Lifehacker.com who brought to our attention this list of compatible apps for the new Mac OS Snow Leopard we can now all know what will, will not, or may work with the new update. For instance, I learned that my favorite FTP utility CyberDuck probably won’t work. But the alpha version (pre-beta) of Cyberduck looks like it could …
Digital Coloring
Ok, I’m no proclaimed graphic artist, but with what I do create, I often need to use certain colors that are placed here or there on my screen and I’m not sure what the color is “called.” On my mac, the DigitalColor Meter is built in. It lets me navigate over any color on any window on my desktop. It …
Another Competition: Mac and Windows 7
I just read through this visual posting by Galen Gruman at ITWORLD.com entitled ” The UI challenge: Windows 7 vs Mac OS X” and it’s very good. Here Gruman compares several aspects of the now Mac OS Leopard and then soon Windows OS Windows 7. Windows 7, in my testing, is a very good operating system, and of course, Leopard …
MacBook transforms and … well just watch.
I’m sending in my mac right to have this surgery.
Everything You Can Do, I Can Do Better
I have been using Windows XP everyday since the beginning of March, where before I was strictly Mac. I grew up being a big Windows user and thought I knew it inside and out. Then just last year I made the switch. Now I’m two faced. I use both all the time. And recently, having gained embraced all sorts of …
Windows7 Beta on Macbook Pro (2 versions)
I never thought I would install windows on my mac… So I’m a avid slideshow maker and unfortunately, Mac software lacks in this area. On PC I use to use Proshow Gold all the time, and since it is so versatile, but not available for the Mac platform, I decided to use my version of Windows7 Beta and my Mac to …
See-Net; for Reviews and Purchasing Help
Way back when, I fell upon a site with countless free downloads and reviews on software applications, a not so little site called download.com. At download.com I can search for any type of software I want either by category, popularity, or by guessing. Then I can sort those results by paid, trial, or free, again by popularity, by rating, and …
Free Space. Get it Now!
Mostly Mac: There are many ways to free up space on your hard drive, on mac, your “start up disk.” Let me point out a few: Download and Run Onyx (reviewed in Tricks of the Trade: Current Mac Apps and More Software Means Productivity) Uninstall Apps with AppCleaner (mentioned here More Software Means Productivity) Delete music in iTunes that you really don’t listen …
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