7 tips for using Faces in iPhoto ’09
iPhoto ’09 can now put names to the faces in your photographs, letting you quickly sift through your library based on content rather than how photos are arranged. But putting this feature to work requires some effort on your part.
How to Share Encrypted USB thumb Drives Betwwen Mac and PC
We all face the reality of identity theft these days, and companies have to worry about intellectual property theft as well. Indeed, just about anyone can fall victim, so it’s important to protect both your personal and work data with data encryption. USB thumb drives are particularly vulnerable: Everyone’s using them for transporting files hither and yon, and these wee portable drives are so easily lost. God forbid your shopping lists (or your patent applications... or your incriminating office party photos) ever fall into the wrong hands.
Nifty tricks of Adium
Adium is a free instant messaging application for Mac OS X that can connect to AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, and more.
Most of Mac users have known the existence of this instant messaging client. We reveal some of the nifty tricks while using Adium to get the most out of Adium, such as inserting line break, changing nickname, updating Twitter with Adium, and many others.
Create stronger passwords
An attacker who wants to break into one of your accounts manually might first try likely passwords such as your pet’s name, your anniversary, or other terms that are significant to you. If that doesn’t produce results quickly, a hacker might turn to a program that rapidly tries each of the thousands or even millions of words in a big list—a procedure known as a dictionary attack. Some dictionary attacks are quite clever, checking not only common English terms but also foreign words, common misspellings, words in which letters have been replaced by numbers or symbols (such as @ppl5 for Apple), and easy-to-type sequences of characters, such as poiuytre.
Free Mac Apps That Will Boost Your Productivity
There are many applications that can help you work faster and efficiently. Though, not many applications come cheap. We show you the best selection of free and/or open source Mac applications that will help you be a more efficient designer.
Top 12 iPhone Accelerometer Apps
What started out as a moderately useful gimmick to view the entire width of a Web page or a photo in its proper landscape ratio has turned into one of the iPhone’s greatest assets. With the overwhelming success of the App Store, iPhone’s accelerometer suddenly has a million and one uses, turning the handset into everything from a fishing pole to a plumb bob--even a tectonic plate.
CleanMyMac from MacPaw
Upon installation of application, some system files are spread across your Mac without your knowing that. Even after uninstallation, those persistent files are leaved behind, eating up your free space.
Several third party apps are available to clean up these leftovers; CleanMyMac is one of those.
Free Productivity Booster Apps for Mac
Lacking of productivity applications will slow down our workflow and consume more time, even though we’ve already purchased a Mac. Using only built-in Mac applications, we can neither get the most out of our Mac nor boost our productivity.
Now, we’ve compiled several free applications for Mac OS X (including application launcher, easy no-taker application, data backup tool, data sharing utility, etc) that can significantly boost your productivity.
Recording Speech with GarageBand 2009
After burning some time to play around with GarageBand 2009, Now show you a new skill: recording speech.
Although it sounds simple, there are many hidden tricks to get clean and nice recorded speech. Hope this article can help you in your future speech recording.
20 Excellent Plugins for Safari
We have great choices for Web browsers: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome and the list goes on.
Each browser comes with its own set of advantages and features and one of the greatest benefits of Firefox has been the ability to fully customize it through the use of plugins and add-ons.
This feature is especially important for those of you using Mac OS X, when deciding whether to pick one of the two heavyweights: Firefox or Safari.
Sync tools between Mac and WinMobile
If you are one of those Mac users who own Windows Mobile phones, you have probably encountered the problem of an impossibility of syncing these two devices. As Mac and WinMobile devices were not meant to cooperate, the variety of software synchronization solutions is not really wide.
Now the 5x SyncMate Expert as courtesy of Eltima Software. Basically, SyncMate is one of sync tools between Mac and WinMobile.
Launching apps: Beyond the Dock
Smart Mac users explain how they open and manage their applications.
Sure, you could use the Dock and the Applications folder to launch applications. But there are plenty of ways to tweak OS X to make that everyday chore easier, from launchers like LaunchBar to customized hot-key shortcuts.
Free Menubar Applications for Mac
Menubar applications are sometimes more favorable than normal applications because not only these menubar applications can run seamlessly on background but also they can save most of our valuable dock space.
Most importantly, in this article you will see some variations of useful, free menubar applications.
Mac Hacks: 17 AppleScripts To Make Your Life Easier
You have a MacBook Pro or macbook or macpro (and so on) in company and home, But how to sync your iTunes library?
Luckily, Simplify Media makes it easy to share your home library with your laptop — and even your iPhone — over the Internet. we’ll show you how to set it up, so you never have to be without access to all your Weird Al albums ever again.
Stream Your iTunes Library Anywhere
You have a MacBook Pro or macbook or macpro (and so on) in company and home, But how to sync your iTunes library?
Luckily, Simplify Media makes it easy to share your home library with your laptop — and even your iPhone — over the Internet. we’ll show you how to set it up, so you never have to be without access to all your Weird Al albums ever again.
Eye Catching Mac Screensavers
Running screensaver can help you relax your mind and suppose to reduce damage to your display screen. But most importantly, nowadays screensavers are used to mesmerize everyone around them.
Knowing the importance of having unique, stunning screensaver, we are here to present you this article which consists of many screensavers that would catch your attention. No need to have long introduction here, let's see what are those screensavers.
How to Relaunch Finder
If something happens to our Finder (freeze, perhaps), without the provision of quit option we will be certainly forced to restart our Mac. But that won't be the case if we have the know-how to relaunch Finder.
11 ways to sync your data with an iPhone
Can your data appear in two places at once? With a little sleight of hand and the help of some smart apps, you can access your calendar, your files, and even your Mac’s desktop from just about anywhere.
The Ultimate Mobile Mac User's Survival Guide
We are all creatures of habit. We get used to which side of the door the light switch is on and reach for it in the dark without even thinking. That’s part of the trouble with travel--nothing is exactly the way we’re used to, from the location of light switches to the availability of Wi-Fi Internet connections.
To help alleviate the sense that everything is unfamiliar and uncharted away from home, a map of sorts can come in handy. That’s what we offer here--a showcase of the very best mobile add-ons for your Apple gear, a collection of tried-and-tested tactics for staying connected and winning the productivity battle on the go, and finally, an assortment of apps that can effectively turn your iPhone into a MacBook replacement.