Though Apple’s headphones are a source of frustration to many users, for a variety of reasons, nobody can argue the usefulness of the built-in remote. At first glance, it appears to offer nothing beyond volume control. But Apple has actually built-in quite a few handy features for controlling your iPhone with it. Here are some lesser-known shortcuts.
If you’re having issues with Adobe Flash player in Mac OS X, simply removing the control panel from the System Preferences (by right-clicking on the icon) or doing a manual search through the Applications folder in the Finder, isn’t going to work. But there is a relatively painless way to do it.
You can send an iMessage (text message) directly from within Contacts in OS X Mountain Lion. Simply choose the card of the person you want to send it to, click the phone number, and you’ll get an option to send the person an iMessage.
Sleep No More is a tiny menu bar application, that allows you to prevent your Mac from sleeping for a specified amount of time. It offers something other sleep-prevention apps don’t.
In part one of The iMac 27″ for graphic designers, I covered the reasons for choosing the late 2012 iMac 27” to replace my 2006 Mac Pro. As a graphic designer who works in Adobe Creative Suite apps all day long, power is important. But as I found out with my MacBook Air, the Mac Pro just isn’t necessary anymore.
Having covered the pros and cons of the iMac itself in part 1, I’m now going to talk a bit about my experience actually using the iMac for the last two months.
Apple really should offer a way to adjust the backup time in the System Preferences, but they don’t. Fortunately, you can still do it using the Terminal app in your Utilities folder. Here’s how you do it!
After six years of using the original Mac Pro as my main workhorse, I finally took the plunge this past Christmas and upgraded to Apple’s latest 27” iMac. It’s the first Mac I’ve owned since the Quadra 650 back in the mid 90s that wasn’t a tower model. It was a scary decision for me, but one I’ve been delighted with so far.
This is part one of a two-part review of the iMac. It covers a little history and what drove me to the iMac, as well as my overall opinions of the new iMac hardware. In part two, coming next week, I’ll cover performance using typical graphic design apps.
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Famous icon artist, Louie Matia, has made available his De Anza collection of icons. They perfectly match the folders used by Mac OS X.
Instead of launching Reminders and typing in information you feel is important, you can use this quick shortcut to not only create a reminder, but link to the exact email message you’ll need later.
Being the fan of keyboard shortcuts that I am, I rarely pass-up the opportunity to use them. Here are a few keyboard shortcuts for selecting text in virtually any Mac OS X application that allows text entry, including Apple and Adobe applications.
