I recently bought this Mini DisplayPort to DVI Adapter from Amazon for my MacBook Pro. It cost less than $8 including shipping, and it arrived at my house in about four days (for comparison Apple’s official adapter is $29 + shipping). So how does a cheap third party MiniDisplayPort to DVI adapter work compared to … Read More

I find myself never using the MacBook Pro’s optical drive, the only time I have used it was to boot Mac OS from a DVD to reformat and reinstall Mac OS X. Now that it’s so easy to install Mac OS using an external drive though, is having a DVD drive really a good usage … Read More

It looks like there will be an update to the plastic Unibody MacBook lineup soon. A very authentic looking refreshed unit has shown up in some video and images out of Vietnam, which is a popular source of Apple product leaks at the moment. Assuming this is legitimate, the specs on the revised MacBook are … Read More

The MacBook, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro screen backlighting is set to automatically dim and adjust in different situations. For the MacBook, it will adjust based on the power source and based on how long the computer is not in use. For the MacBook Pro and MacBook Air, the same is also true, in addition … Read More

I’ve always been a big fan of the glass screened aluminum iMac’s and MacBook Pro’s, and this setup has both making it a big win in my book. [ via MinimalMac.com ]

The iPhone & iPod Touch have a bunch of built-in preset equalizer settings, which are nice and all but they don’t work for everyone. The preset EQ settings are particularly weak when you compare them to the control you have with the iTunes Equalizer. So what’s an iPhone or iPod touch user to do? Well, … Read More

You can create a folder that is hidden from the default Finder GUI view by taking advantage of Mac OS X’s unix underpinnings. That probably sounds a lot more complex than it is however, and it turns out it’s actually really easy to make a completely hidden folder on the Mac. This walkthrough details how … Read More

Can you find a more awesome Mac setup? Check out these machines and their stats, they’re sure to make you envious: Mac Pro * Intel Xeon W3540 2.93Ghz Quad Core * 6GB DDR3 1067 ECC RAM * ATi Radeon HD 4870 * 1TB OS X * 640GB Windows 7 64bit * Dual 23″ Apple Cinema … Read More

Apple continues to dominate the news cycle, this time with high scores in a consumer satisfaction survey. The survey of 23,400 online shoppers determined that Apple ranks number one among online electronic and computer retailers. Additional bragging rights for Apple include ranking number four overall for consumer satisfaction, behind only Netflix, Amazon and Avon. Impressive … Read More

I’m always interested in how professionals use Mac’s in their everyday life. I couldn’t help but notice when browsing through photographer Noah Kalina‘s Flickr stream that he’s also a Mac user! Other than his photography, Noah is perhaps most famous for taking a daily picture of himself for six years and turning it into a … Read More

ShrinkIt is a handy little app that greatly reduces the file size of Illustrator generated PDF’s. Created as an internal tool, the developers over at Panic realized that PDF files saved from Adobe Illustrator were loaded with loads of extra nonsense metadata, even patterns, preview bitmaps, swatches, creating enormous PDF file sizes when they should … Read More

Apple’s WorldWide Developer Conference is set for June 7-11 this year, and many desktop Mac developers are shaking their heads wondering where the love is. The tagline for this years WWDC conference is “The center of the app universe” and Apple’s Design Awards are curiously lacking a Mac OS X category, instead favoring iPhone and … Read More

“I use Visio frequently at work in an all Windows environment, but I really don’t want to have to install Parallels or Boot Camp on my new MacBook just to run Visio. Is there some kind of alternative like Visio for Mac OS X?” This is a great question, and I think you’ll be quite … Read More

Now here’s a contrast, a unibody aluminum MacBook with a blast from the past… a PowerBook Duo 270c! The PowerBook Duo series was just about the most stylish and snazzy laptop you could get in the early to mid 1990’s, but over a decade later it just can’t compete with a unibody MacBook. [ via … Read More

One of the coolest features of the 27″ iMac is it’s beautiful LED screen with a whopping 2560×1440 resolution, but what’s even cooler is the ability to use that gorgeous display as an external display for another Mac. So if you want to use an iMac as an external screen for another Mac, you’ll need … Read More

If you are trying to view invisible files through the Mac sFTP / FTP client Transmit, stop looking around in the Preferences and View Options because it won’t be there.

This chart displays the GeekBench scores of the new 2010 MacBook Pro models versus each other and the older 2009 models they replaced. As you can see from the scores, the MacBook Pro Core i5 and i7 models really blow away their predecessors, while the MacBook Pro 13″ model with it’s Core 2 Duo processor … Read More

So let’s pretend that maybe you want an iPad or a bigger screen iPhone, but you don’t want to pay pay for one. Hmmm, but you already have an iPhone? Well then, have we got a solution for you!