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Why Your MacBook Air Has No Optical Drive & 4 Reasons Why This Isn’t a Problem
October 29, 2012The MacBook Air is one of the thinnest and lightest computers available today; thin as your finger, and so light every computer after will feel like you're hauling a sack of potatoes. In fact, ever since Apple set the trend with its MacBook Air, the ultrabook genre has been gaining ground in the Windows scene. But you don't get a laptop as thin and light as the MacBook Air without making compromises.
Keep Reading »How To Learn & Have Fun With Magic GarageBand [OSX]
October 27, 2012The best way to learn music is probably to learn how to play a real instrument, but if you're like me and you don't have the time, Apple's popular song-producing application, GarageBand, can be useful for both the musically and non-musically inclined to have fun with music. I'm of the latter group - I know little of nothing about producing music. But when I find the time, I sometimes open GarageBand and play around with it.
Keep Reading »Are Your Ready For The Shortcat Keyboard Challenge? [Mac]
October 22, 2012Shortcat, which is in alpha stage of development, enables you to keep your hands on your keyboard and navigate to any part of an application, webpage, or even System Preferences controls. Using a few keyboard shortcuts to activate Shortcat will cause what are called "accessibility attributes" to be highlighted. From there you use the keyboard to activate any highlighted element.
Keep Reading »How To Post To Facebook & Twitter From The Notification Center In Mountain Lion
October 22, 2012Similar to its iOS counterpart, the Notification Center (which can be accessed using the right-most icon in your menu bar, or by using a hotkey) is designed to keep track of the multitude of information broadcasted by the assorted applications installed on your computer. Apart from the expected—news about incoming emails, calendar events, and the like—you can also use the Notification Center to interact with Facebook and Twitter.
Keep Reading »7 Quirky Mountain Lion Features That Apple Should Fix
October 19, 2012I'm not an Apple fanboy, and typically I don't complain about Apple hardware or software, because usually Apple's products meet and exceed my expectations. However, I do sometimes shake my head in wonder about some of the obvious quirks that Apple knows exist or overlooks. I wonder what Apple developers were thinking when they built or revised some features. Below I list my top quirks, found in Mountain Lion.
Keep Reading »6 Awesome Alternatives To Audacity For Recording & Editing Audio
October 16, 2012Open source software is just plain great, and in the realm of audio editing, you’ll find no open source program more lauded than the popular Audacity. Truth be told, Audacity is useful for more things than simple audio editing. But the fact remains that Audacity isn’t loved by everyone. If you’re one of those people, be glad to know that there are plenty of alternatives available.
Keep Reading »5 Tips For Making The Most Out Of The Notes App [iOS]
October 15, 2012In any application round-up - mobile or otherwise - about work, education or GTD, you'll see the most advanced conglomeration of note-taking applications. Often, the applications already present on the operating system are ignored. Likely, this is because these applications generally don't amount to much. However, on Apple products, they do. The iOS Notes app is a remarkable, capable, and easy to use application
Keep Reading »Top Tips To Keep Mac OS X Tidy
October 15, 2012One argument in favor of using Mac OS X is that it doesn't require a whole lot of maintenance to keep it purring contently on your desk. That being said, it is inevitable that a certain amount of mess accumulates when you use your computer. Some few redundant files littering your Desktop add to the soon unsurmountable stack of waste hiding your important files. A spring cleaning might be in order.
Keep Reading »Miro: An All-In-One Application To Manage All Of Your Media [Cross-Platform]
October 11, 2012We have a lot of media that we need to keep track of before we forget that we even have them. We're also on a constant need for new, fresh media. Ideally, it'd be great to have an application which could do all of this for us, and become our "all-in-one media application". For a large number of people, iTunes fulfills this role fairly well, but some people may not enjoy iTunes for a number of reasons, including its very closed nature.
Keep Reading »How To Use The New & Improved Tools In Mountain Lion’s Preview App
October 10, 2012Getting on the paperless trail these days couldn't be easier (see Aaron's new guide on the subject), with so many excellent desktop and mobile apps. Well, with the latest Mountain Lion update, Apple must of took a hard look at other PDF applications and decided its Preview application is due for some major improvements. Preview is a default application for Mac OS X. If you click and open an image, screenshot, or PDF file, typically Preview is the application you will view those files in.
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