10 Things Every Final Cut Pro User Should Know
The sheer depth of Final Cut Pro features can intimidate new users. Apple's plan was to take the video editing world by storm with their professional editing app. In order to shake Avid from its high horse, Apple had to cram an unbelievable amount of features in there.
We'e assembled ten features that will help you master FCP and create the next great movie.
Six quick fixes you should Know
You can count on it: the time will come when something goes wrong with your Mac—something you don’t know how to fix yourself. That’s when you’ll likely consider a trip to your local Apple Store. There, at the Genius Bar, you’ll find Apple-trained experts ready to help for free with whatever ails your Mac.
Most Wanted Tips For Iphone 3G
We believe every single iPhone users would like to know all of the tips and tricks for every feature of iPhone. In fact, if you dig and explore a little deeper, you will know that you can actually do a lot more on your iPhone. With these lesser-known goodies, you can easily get the most out of your iPhone.
Cool Laptop Sleeves And Bags You Can Actually Buy
Whether you are a designer, a web developer just somebody who owns a laptop, you deserved to have that unique personality whenever you carry your laptop with you. When you purchase a laptop, you’ll usually be given a default laptop sleeve (or bag) but that also means that whoever bought the exact same model will have the same bag.
Keep Your Mac Clean, Healthy and Fast
Even though Mac users are free from the hassle of having to reinstall Mac OS X on a monthly basis, they still need to keep their computers clean and healthy, in order to have a decent working operating system.
Enhance Your Music Life with iTunes
iTunes has often been carved deep inside our mind as one of the coolest music player that we have on our Mac. Apart from playing music, many useful features also can be added to your iTunes experience. From the music shuffling to music sharing over network, from tweaking rating system to setting music duration, will be discussed in this article as well as some other cool features.
Network Utility for Mac
There is a high probability for Mac power users to execute Terminal commands in order to check for network status of particular domain, such as ping, traceroute, whois, etc.
However, if we are new to Terminal commands, it is not necessary to use any web based service for this particular purpose; we can always use Network Utility pre-installed to our Mac.
Full Maximize Window on Mac OS X
Most new Mac switchers fired complaints on the strange behavior of green 'maximize' button that fails to maximize window to full screen. If you're one of them, it's time to rest assured and check out this nifty little freeware: Right Zoom.
"This free tool fixes an inconvenient behavior of green Zoom button in Mac OS X. It will always expand windows on a full screen instead of strange resizing", explained its developer, Blazing Tools Software.
The installation of this application is pretty straightforward: only unzipping and double-clicking are needed. However, as this application is running on background, you need to stop it by executing Terminal command:killall RightZoom
Set your own backup schedule with TimeMachineEditor
When Time Machine starts kicking into gear as you're working, do you groan? Does it slow down your system? Do you immediately look to click on the Stop Backing Up option? If the default one-hour Time Machine backup interval doesn't suit your lifestyle, TimeMachineEditor from Time Software lets you change your backup schedule.
How to Build a Mac Home Network
Apple users who want to network their homes with Mac products have plenty of options at their disposal. An Airport Extreme can serve as the wireless hub, or a Time Capsule can act as both a router and a repository of backup data. From there, you can add Macs, an Apple TV, an Airport Express, an iPhone, an iPod touch, and plenty of cross-device functionality for slinging media and data from room to room.
Search Specific Mac Sites with Google
Besides helping Internet users to search for useful information online, Google also provides search for specific Mac sites to assist Mac users in gathering more Mac related information.
iPhoto, Exterminate Duplicated Photos
Upon importing our most memorable photos to iPhoto, duplication of original photos can't be avoided, sometimes even take up most of our precious storage space. We won't let duplicated stack of photos fill up our free space.
In the case that you want to free your storage, you can delete your original photos. But beforehand, let's check whether those photos are already inside your iPhoto Library.
There is an usual place where you can find those mentioned photos…
Restoring Original Icon via Get Info Pane
Perhaps previously you’ve modified many icons, yet now you’ve become bored with those changes you’ve made; now you want to revert back to your original icon.
The process of reverting back to original icon is quite easy.You could do the followings to restore back to original folder icon.
iPhone Apps You Won't Find on Apple's Store Shelves
et's say you want to trick out your iPhone skin with some really cool new icons, but you can't find anything that interests you at the iPhone App Store. Are you out of luck? You might be. That is, unless you're willing to go a few extra steps and take a few risks, one of which might be destroying what -- in this economy -- is a fairly expensive piece of communications equipment. Ever heard of jailbreaking your iPhone? It's not very difficult these days.
Free High Quality IMac, Macbook Icon Sets
Free icons are great, they are better when they are in high quality and comes in variety of different formats. Thanks to a great number of generous designers out there, we are enjoying what they are distributing for free. Here in this post, we’ve gathered more than 50 high quality Apple Mac related icon sets. What’s included are icon sets of Macbook, Macbook Pro, Macbook Air, iMac, Apple TVs and more.
Save time when converting iTunes tracks
If you’ve got a large iTunes library with lots of self-updating Smart Playlists, converting tracks from one format to another can be a very slow process. Learn a couple of workarounds to speed the process
10 Reasons Your Small Business Should Run on Macs
It’s about reliability, ease of use, and sleek sophistication. But those are just 3 of the 10 reasons why we think you should be operating your small business on the Mac platform. We profile seven businesses that have made exactly that choice--and never looked back.
10 great iPhone concepts
You've probably seen some of these before. A few of these show some interesting thinking. What is your favorite?
While the world is waiting for the announcement of the next generation Apple iPhone, we decided to showcase our favorite iPhone concept designs. Enjoy!
Put Your Mac to Sleep Now!
Is there a way to put Your Mac to sleep with a series of keystrokes, instead of going to the Apple menu and selecting Sleep?
Finder Tweaks Toolbar
Only with a bit of Finder tweaking, Finder can be transformed into your most powerful tool in managing files and boosting productivity.
Digging Up Extra System Preferences
Upon opening our System Preferences, straight away we know that there are some basic customizations can be performed to our Mac. But of course, this is the very general knowledge that even Tom and Dick know about it.
However, there are still some Preferences Panes created by developers yet buried down somewhere, probably they're not as popular as Secrets introduced by developer of Quicksilver but worth mentioned.