After upgrading to Lion on my early 2008 15″ MacBook Pro, I started to notice that the computer was hot to the touch. Really hot. So I started measuring the internal temperature of my Macs to see if there was anything to be truly alarmed about. Read more »
Mac OS X Lion has been out long enough for a lot of us to realize that there might be a couple of essential tweaks we’d really like to make. Here’s how to make some changes that require more than just a toggle in preferences. Read more »
While there are no true viruses for OS X, that doesn’t mean Macs are impenetrable. They’re still vulnerable to malware, spyware, spam and trojans. However, with just a few precautionary measures, your Mac can be more secure than most any other consumer technology out there. Read more »
Setting up your OS to your liking can be an art for some. What if you need to set up Snow Leopard to present every user with the same look and settings? By following these steps you can have every user who logs into the machine […] Read more »
(Let me preface this post with a warning that tweaking unpublished settings can break your system and applications.) While I am a fan of the Terminal, sometimes remembering (or Googling for) the proper “defaults write …” undocumented setting to tweak a feature on a new build […] Read more »
Based on my time spent playing with the iPhone interface, I present to you my new term which represents a very serious condition facing geeks today. Scroligo | skro-li-go | noun The vertigo-like sensation induced by switching back and forth between the inverted scrolling orientation on […] Read more »
A huge thanks goes to Dan Moren at MacUser for posting this tip. I was literally looking for this method over the weekend when I right clicked on an image file and Finder took FOOOREEEVER to show my [crapton of] ‘Open With…’ options. Most commonly, as […] Read more »
