Target Disk Mode is a very handy feature available to use with Mac’s that have Thunderbolt or Firewire ports, and it allows you to use one Mac as an external drive on another host machine. This incredibly useful feature makes troubleshooting, installations, large file transfers, and critical backups extremely easy and very fast. Before beginning, … Read More

There’s been a barrage of attention on the iPad and it’s hard to go anywhere online and not see a mention of it, it’s truly a memorable device that is sure to change computing history. I have no doubt the device is fun, incredible, even revolutionary, but after seeing some of the iPad setups out … Read More

“What are the best speakers for the iPhone?” My sister just got an iPhone and called me from Best Buy asking me about an iPhone speaker dock to plug it into… working with a budget of about $200 I told her to skip the model she was looking at, and save some money by going … Read More

Using multiple monitors is an easy way to dramatically increase your productivity, but I’ve often heard complaints that when the secondary monitor needs to have the menubar to make it even more useful. SecondBar solves that problem. This nifty little app just duplicates the menubar across multiple displays, letting you have full access to the … Read More

It’s barely been out a few days, but someone has already jailbroken the iPad. Infamous iPhone hacker MuscleNerd successfully ported over the Spirit Jailbreak for iPhone to the iPad, and he posted a couple screenshots and a video (embedded below) demonstrating command line root-level access on the device. It never ceases to amaze me how … Read More

You can open a folder into a new window (or tab) by holding down the Command key when you double-click on the folder to open it within the Finder of Mac OS X.

Want to dramatically boost your computing productivity? Get an additional monitor. Whether you have an iMac, MacBook, MacBook Pro, Mac Pro, or Mac Mini, you will love it once you have it. I can’t think of a single other addition to a Mac setup that will increase productivity like a second monitor does. You instantly … Read More

You can lock the screen orientation on the iPad 1, iPad 2, iPad 3, iPad 4 from rotating when the device is shifted in orientation by hitting the Screen Rotation Lock button. The screen lock button is located on the side of the device, located above the volume controls. Once you hit that screen rotation … Read More

Here’s another wild setup that includes a 24″ iMac, a Mac Pro with dual 24″ displays, a MacBook Pro, and a couple decked out PC’s thrown in for good measure. Oh and the four guitars with who knows how much recording equipment. Sweet! [ via Flickr ]

The recent 10.6.3 update is said to include a few Airport/wireless updates that improve reliability: * general reliability for wireless connections. * improvements to 802.1X reliability, including closed network connections, and WPA2. Unfortunately that wasn’t the case with the update on my machine, my wireless connection started having problems immediately after the 10.6.3 update. If … Read More

Flash on the Mac is broken Steve Jobs is now famously purported to have called Flash a “CPU hog” and “old technology”, something I’d have to agree with based on my experience. Flash is simply broken on the Mac, there is just no denying it. I don’t know what the problem is and I’m not … Read More

This is an unusual iTunes error that you shouldn’t see too often: The update “iTunes” can’t be saved. The file “iTunesAccess.tar” couldn’t be found on the server “swcdn.apple.com”.

Today is April Fools Day in the USA, which makes the internet as a whole generally pretty ridiculous because there’s so many pranks with fake and silly news stories floating around. Keeping with the goofy spirit, here’s some easy and funny pranks to play on a fellow Mac user:

Dock.prefPane “The document ‘Dock.prefPane’ could not be opened. System Preferences cannot open files in the ‘Mac OS X Preference Pane’ format.” Oh that makes perfect sense, a default preference pane can’t be opened by the System Preferences? What?? Maybe this is an April Fools joke from System Preferences… but a reboot fixed it.