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How to Connect a Mac to a TV with HDMI for Full Audio & Video Support

Apr 28, 2013 - 61 Comments
Connect a Mac to a TV

Ever wanted to connect a Mac to a TV screen? Maybe you want to use the TV as a giant external monitor, to play games on a big screen, or just for video playback and movie streaming? It’s actually quite easy to do, and we’ll cover the entire process from start to finish. We’re going … Read More

Using the Delete Key on a Mac & Adding a Forward Delete Button

Apr 26, 2013 - 12 Comments
Using the Delete Key on a Mac, including Forward Delete and deleting full lines of text

The delete key on a Mac keyboard functions like a backspace key on a Windows/PC keyboard, deleting a character at a time backwards from where the cursor is located. Pretty straightforward, but many newcomers to the Mac platform are confused as to why there isn’t a forward delete key… well it turns out there is … Read More

“Photos Every Day” is Apple’s Best iPhone Commercial in a Long While

Apr 25, 2013 - Leave a Comment
iPhone Photos Every Day ad

Apple has started to run a new iPhone commercial on TV titled “Photos Every Day”, focused entirely on the devices camera and iPhone photography. The ad centers around people taking photos with an iPhone throughout daily life activities, then performing simple edits, cropping pictures, using Instagram, and other pretty typical fair for the many of … Read More

How To Retrieve Forgotten Web Site & Browser Passwords in Mac OS X via Command Line

Apr 25, 2013 - Leave a Comment
Allow security to retrieve a password from keychain

You can retrieve forgotten website and browser passwords by using a command line tool in Mac OS X. This is a handy feature that gives you access to the Keychain via Terminal. How many times have you forgotten the password to a website? Don’t feel bad because it happens to the best of us. The … Read More

iPad or iPhone Freezes Up? Frozen on the Spinning Wheel? 3 Ways to Fix iOS Crashes

Apr 25, 2013 - 47 Comments
Spinning wheel in iOS

The iPad and iPhone don’t freeze or crash often, but when they do it can be an epic freeze-up, where the device can either get stuck in an app or, worse, it gets frozen on the dreaded iOS “spinning wheel of death”, the little wait cursor that never goes away. Left on it’s own in … Read More

Improve Command Line History Search with These .inputrc Modifications

Apr 24, 2013 - Leave a Comment
Terminal logo

If you’re a heavy command line user, you’re probably well aware that the arrow keys can be used to flip through previously executed commands and the tab key can complete them. But both of these functions can be significantly improved upon for searching through past command history by adding a few modifications to your .inputrc … Read More

WWDC 2013 Dates Announced for June 10-14, Tickets on Sale April 25 at 10AM PST

Apr 24, 2013 - 1 Comment
WWDC 2013 Wallpaper

Apple has announced the Worldwide Developer Conference for 2013 will be held June 10 through the 14 in San Francisco at the Moscone West center. Tickets will be made available for purchase April 25 (tomorrow morning) at 10AM pacific time, and will cost $1599 per developer.

How to Change File Ownership in Mac OS X

Apr 23, 2013 - 10 Comments
User icon

Though it’s somewhat rare to encounter ownership and permissions errors in Mac OS X, it can happen, particularly when an account has been moved, or a files owner has been modified by a third party application. Oftentimes you can just run through the process to repair user permissions, but that’s not always guaranteed to sort … Read More

Delete Contacts from iPhone the Fast Way, All or Individually

Apr 23, 2013 - 15 Comments
Contacts icon in iOS

Need to delete a contact from the iPhone? Maybe you want to delete all contacts from the iPhone, iCloud, Mac OS X, iPad, and everywhere else they appear, so that you can start anew with a completely blank address book? You can do both easily and quickly, and while deleting a single contact is quick … Read More

How to Secure Erase a Mac SSD / Hard Disk from Recovery Mode

Apr 22, 2013 - 14 Comments
Disk Utility in Mac OS X

The newest Macs ship with a Recovery partition rather than a separate external reinstall disk, and if you’ve ever rebooted a newer Mac, iMac, MacBook Air, or MacBook Pro with an SSD from the Recovery partition to reformat the drive, you may have noticed that by default the “Security Options” button is greyed out in … Read More

Change the Photo Slideshow Speed on iPad

Apr 22, 2013 - 2 Comments
Change the photo slideshow timer on iPad

The iPad’s Photo slideshow feature, and the accompanying Picture Frame, are both great ways to show off pictures stored on the device. You’ll find the images change fairly often though, and that’s because the default setting is set at 3 seconds. This can be adjusted to be considerably longer, or shorter, depending on your preferences, … Read More

Reduce Dock Clutter in OS X by Minimizing Windows Into Their App Icons

Apr 20, 2013 - 8 Comments
Minimized window thumbnails in the Dock of Mac OS X

If you minimize a lot of app windows while using a Mac you’ve probably noticed that the right side of the Dock in OS X quickly becomes cluttered with tons and tons of those minimized window thumbnails, and as they build up the size of the visible Dock slowly starts to shrink and adjust the … Read More

Got an Older Mac? MLPostFactor Installs OS X 10.8.3 on Old Unsupported Macs

Apr 20, 2013 - 28 Comments
Installing OS X Mountain Lion on older Macs with MLPostFactor

Many older Macs lost out on the ability to run OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3!), but some hard working fellows have created a free third party tool called MLPostFactor that allows for the newest version of OS X to be installed on older, officially unsupported Macs. The process used to be quite complicated, but with … Read More

How to Find an iPhone’s Phone Number

Apr 20, 2013 - 8 Comments
Show my iPhone phone number

Whether you just got a new phone number, changed a number from an old one, or you happened upon someone else’s iPhone and want to know the number of who it belongs to, you can easily retrieve an iPhone’s associated mobile number. The obvious solution might be to call another phone, but if the device … Read More

How to Change Default Alert Times in Calendars for iPhone & iPad, Birthdays & Events

Apr 19, 2013 - 9 Comments
Change Calendar default alert times

You can change the default alert times of calendar events on iPhone and iPad. Forgetting a birthday or an important event never feels good, and if you have a habit of either completely forgetting dates or not remembering until it’s too late, you can adjust the default alert times settings in iOS to better correspond … Read More

3 Simple Ways to Strip Styling & Formatting from Text in Mac OS X

Apr 18, 2013 - 23 Comments
Strip text styling and font formatting

Want to quickly remove text styles and font formatting from some text? Here are two three super fast ways to do just that, and they don’t require any third party downloads, both features are built right into Mac OS X. The first two methods will use an alternate copy & paste command that removes styling … Read More

Take Better Screen Shots in Mac OS X with 6 Pro Tricks & Tips

Apr 17, 2013 - 23 Comments
Show the cursor in screen shots

Anyone who takes a lot of screenshots in Mac OS X knows the challenges associated with them; how quickly their desktop will fill up with various PNG files, sorting those into folders or just tossing them elsewhere, converting the screenshots to a different image format, copying them to the clipboard for pasting into another app, … Read More

Find the Best Directions on iPhone by Comparing Alternate Routes in Maps Apps

Apr 17, 2013 - 4 Comments

If you’re hitting the road with your iPhone, you’ll probably be relying on either Apple Maps or Google Maps to help you get to your destination. But before you settle on an uncertain route, remember to check the default routes and compare alternate routes in both mapping apps to find the best directions, and don’t … Read More

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