How To Tell When You Should Dump a CRM System
At some point in a CRM system’s life, you have to ask whether the business will be better served by investing in the existing system, or replacing it. Here are 10 guideposts to consider for that decision.
How to Upgrade Your Netbook
Netbooks are universally regarded for their portability, but no two netbook models are exactly alike, and each seems to come with different trade-offs. A netbook with a superior battery might have a horrible keyboard arrangement; a netbook with a solid-state drive might slip out of your price range; a netbook with a killer list of specs might be missing 802.11n connectivity. These are all common problems--and you won’t find common solutions.
AutoPlay QuickTime Movies on Open and Useful QuickTime X Hacks
QuickTime X is really cool and one of the many great improvements in Snow Leopard, but As most people are probably aware, the new QuickTime X Player in Snow Leopard has no preferences and that QuickTime X no longer automatically plays movie files on open. Thankfully resolving this is just a matter of entering a command in the Terminal. Well we had show some more QuickTime X hacks, like forcing QuickTime to stay full-screen even when it’s in the background, or how to force the titlebar to always show or always hide.
How to Recover Your Firefox Master Password
If you’re using Firefox’s built-in password management, you should also be using its master password feature to protect your saved passwords from prying eyes. But what happens if you lose your master password? Since the master password prevents anyone from accessing your saved passwords, you’re out of luck if you lose your master password—that is, you can’t access any of your saved credentials without it.
How To Develop Websites On Linux
This article will look at tools that can help those of you who want to develop websites on a Linux platform, from powerful text editors to desktop and system features. How do you edit files remotely without FTP plug-ins? What are package managers, and why they are cool? In which Web browsers can you test your applications?
How to virtualise your Mac desktop
Although virtualisation and emulation technologies have been around for decades in the world of big iron mainframes, it’s only in the last year or so that virtualisation is starting to appear on desktop machines. The advantages are obvious. With a virtualisation shell you can multiboot OS X, Windows, Linux, other Unix variants, and even DOS all on the same machine. This has obvious curiosity value, but the practical applications shouldn’t be dismissed.
Make a RAM or Scratch Disk in Mac OS X
Making a RAM disk prior to Mac OS X was quickly accomplished through a control panel, but since OS X this ability has been lost. Esperance DV replicates this GUI based creation of RAM disks with a simple system preference pane add-on that allows you the same functionality.
Beyond HandBrake’s defaults
HandBrake is a terrific tool for easily ripping DVDs but there may come times when you want to go beyond its preset settings. Here’s a look beneath the surface for doing just that.
If you’re a Mac user interested in ripping your commercial DVDs to a format playable on an Apple TV, iPod, or iPhone, the free video transcoder, HandBrake 0.9.3, is one of the easiest ways to go about it. With a copy of the free VLC installed on your Mac, HandBrake can rip most DVDs made, and the results it produces are quite watchable.
Build The Ultimate Mac Entertainment Center
Wishing you could cut your ties to the cable company forever? You can. You can broaden your video entertainment choices and spend less each month with an Apple tech-based home-media setup. We show you exactly how.
How to Create Your First iPhone Application
The iPhone has created unprecedented excitement and innovation from people both inside and outside the software development community. Still for those outside the development world, the process is a bit of a mystery.
This how-to guide is supposed to walk you through the steps to make your idea for an iPhone app a reality. This post presents various ideas, techniques, tips, and resources that may come in handy if you are planning on creating your first iPhone application.
16 Apps That Make Sharing Large Files A Snap
File sharing services are not as popular today as they were four years ago. It’s not that people are sharing any less. Rather, they just found easier ways to do it. Would you upload a funny video from a friend’s email to any of those services or would you search for it on Youtube and share only the link? Would you upload an MP3 file in order to share with whomever, or would you search for it online, grab the link and then share it? And finally, would you use a file-sharing app just to share a picture on Facebook when you can do it directly from your desktop to your Facebook profile? Of course, you wouldn’t!
How To Make your Mac a Web Server
You may think you are one with the Interwebs, but until you actually create a website, you are merely part of the Interwebs. Follow this tutorial, and you will learn how to become one in about a billion, the exclusive club of people who host sites of some sort.
30 Best Free Iphone Photo & Video Applications
Editing, enhancing or having fun with photos in your iPhone is not a dream anymore as the latest 3Gs iPhone is now furnished with an auto-focus mechanism taking 3 megapixel images. A look around the internet will show you rather decent photos taken by iPhone as people quit printing photos – who will when with a few taps, they can share theirs instantly.
How to Make Your Solo GarageBand Projects Come Alive
GarageBand has done a great job of bringing user-friendly, intuitive home-recording tools to the masses. But while the results usually outstrip the four-track compositions of yore, most GarageBand creations sound like exactly what they are: one person recording simple musical sketches to a computer. Fortunately, with the application of a few simple pro-recording concepts, your solo projects can be so much more.
85 Useful Free Mac Apps for Designers
With many applications emerging one after another, it’s not really difficult to find free apps out of the net. Perhaps, those free applications are suitable for us compared to commercial ones.
Knowing there are quite a number of designers out there using a Mac, we compiled free Mac applications for designers. In this compilation, you can find useful Mac applications that can be downloaded and used for free.
Fix printer queue glitches
When your printer won’t print, sometimes you’ll try the basics of printer troubleshooting with no results. Whether your printer’s Dock icon bounces endlessly or a message says you’re stuck at "connecting," here’s how to handle problems with your printer queue.
How to add motion blur to your photos
With stunningly fast shutter speeds, today’s cameras can stop almost any motion. But some subjects—such as race cars and babbling brooks—become more interesting when you emphasize their motion, letting the action happen during the exposure.
Sharing calendars with Google Calendar, iCal, and the iPhone
Enter the wonderful world of social calendaring with Google Calendar, and then sync those shared calendars back and forth with iCal on the Mac and the iPhone using the CalDAV protocol. Ars shows you how.
Set Up Find My iPhone on Multiple iPhones With One MobileMe Account
Find My iPhone, to many people, is the ultimate integration between the iPhone and MobileMe. With your iPhone connected to your MobileMe account you can quickly find your lost, or stolen, iPhone and return to your landscape texting ways.