Open a Finder window (Finder > New Finder Window) and then choose View > Show Path Bar. The Path Bar appears at the bottom of all your Finder windows, showing the complete path from your computer to the current folder. At first glance, that’s all the Path Bar does. But as Sharon Zardetto points out in her article, it can do a whole lot more!
Peter Nixey talks about 5 things that would make managing photos better in the Apple ecosystem. I agree with all five points.
ClawMenu is one of those apps that you see and just want to give it a try. It offers you a way to supplement the Mac’s Finder with it’s own system for navigating your files and folders. Here’s a quick breakdown.
If you frequently get text message spam, you’ve no doubt considered sticking a pencil in your ear out of frustration. Before you soil a perfectly good pencil, take a look at OSXDaily’s excellent tutorial on how to block text message spam on your iPhone.
Sometimes I just don’t want to listen to music. I just want some nice ambient sound to wash over me while I’m working. I’ve reviewed Elsewhere for the Mac previously, a free app for OS X which lives in your menubar and provides three ambient sounds, plus rain (with an in-app purchase).
Today I point you to two more great apps, both free, that provide ambient sounds (white noise) to OS X and allow you to customize the relaxing sounds to your liking.
If you thought Siri was a gimmicky feature of iOS, think again—you can do more than schedule an appointment, check game scores, and search the web.
Paul over at OSXDaily has posted a simple tutorial to show you how to use Siri to author a complete email without touching the keyboard on your iPhone.
The trickiest part of using Siri is remember the commands necessary to use Siri to do a ton of different things.
Siri is your iPhone’s hands-free helper that has a slew of useful voice commands, but sometimes when getting contacts Siri can mangle the pronunciation of names that aren’t native to your language. If Siri can’t understand your contact request or just gets annoying pronouncing it, then you can help change this.
In my limited testing, this seems to work fairly well.
I first reviewed SmoothCursor last November, and it immediately found a permanent home on my Mac because it allowed me to adjust the tracking speed of my mouse and Magic Trackpad independently. Unlike most 3rd-party drivers I had tried in the past, SmoothCursor actually worked perfectly for me.
Since then, Troikalabs has updated SmoothCursor to version 2.0.5. Here’s a breakdown of what’s new.
If you manage a group of five or more Macs, OS X Server may be worth the time to invest in. The price is so low that it’s almost worth jumping in with both feet. But if you’re the type that likes a lot of research first, take a look at this 12-page article covering OS X Server.
