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Angry Birds update adds older MacBook GMA 950 graphics support

Jan 12, 2011 - 7 Comments

Angry Birds for Mac has just been updated to include support for older MacBooks, iMacs, and Mac Minis with the Intel GMA 950 graphics card. Users who already bought Angry Birds from the Mac App Store will find the new version in your Updates list, otherwise new users can buy the game from the App … Read More

Enable Mac App Store Hidden Debug Menu

Jan 10, 2011 - 7 Comments

The Mac App Store includes a hidden Debug menu that can be enabled with a simple defaults write command. The menu includes a variety of interesting options and tweaks that are clearly intended for internal development purposes.

Fix Terminal Gibberish with reset Command in OS X

Jan 10, 2011 - 1 Comment
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If you’ve ever accidentally used cat on a binary file, you’ll have seen the gibberish that results and how it can totally screw up your Terminal window with loads of weird characters. Of course there are many other ways to bork up your command line prompt which seems to become unrecoverable through the typical clear … Read More

How to Uninstall Flash from a Mac

Jan 9, 2011 - 13 Comments

Want to remove and uninstall Flash Player from a Mac? Some users install Flash but later decide they do not want the app and plugin on their Mac, thus will want to remove it. Adobe Flash Player is known to cause a slew of issues, slowdowns, battery drain, crashes, and other problems for Mac OS … Read More

Minesweeper for Mac is on the Mac App Store

Jan 8, 2011 - 4 Comments

Try not to get too excited, but you can get Minesweeper for Mac OS X now. That’s right, your favorite Windows game that has been following you around since Windows 3.1 and undoubtedly wasted tons of your PC time is now here to keep your company on the Mac. The graphics are as amazing as … Read More

Run classic Mac OS on iPhone or iPod touch

Jan 7, 2011 - 3 Comments

This is hilarious, you can run classic Mac OS from a Macintosh Plus directly atop iOS on your iPhone or iPod touch thanks to an emulator called Mini vMac. What you’ll need to get this working: A jailbroken iPhone or iPod touch (here’s our jailbreak downloads and info) Mac Plus ROM image (you can get … Read More

Fix Mac App Store Error 100

Jan 6, 2011 - 10 Comments

I just downloaded Mac OS X 10.6.6 and launched the Mac App Store to get out some apps. When trying to download an app I was hit with this error message: “We could not complete your App Store request. An unknown error occured (100). There was an error in the App Store. Please try again … Read More

Mac App Store & Mac OS X 10.6.6 Download Available

Jan 6, 2011 - 15 Comments

The Mac App Store has been released as part of the Mac OS X 10.6.6 System Update. The release notes are brief, and although the 10.6.6 update includes a few security and bug fixes, the majority of the release is geared to support the Mac App Store. The Mac OS X 10.6.6 Update is recommended … Read More

What if you had bought Apple stock instead of Apple hardware?

Jan 6, 2011 - 9 Comments

Ever wondered what your return on investment would be if you had bought Apple stock instead of Apple hardware at the same cost? Great, because now you can torture yourself with the riches you don’t have! If you bought a top of the line PowerBook G3 in 1997 for $5700 get ready to pinch yourself… … Read More

Customize the Mac Login Screen Easily with Ravissant

Jan 3, 2011 - 12 Comments
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If you want to customize your Mac OS X login screen but don’t feel like getting your hands dirty mucking around in system files the old fashioned way, check out a free app called Ravissant.

Mac Setups: Stack of Mac Laptops

Jan 1, 2011 - 6 Comments

Is this enough portability? A new MacBook Air 11″ rests on top of a unibody MacBook, on top of a MacBook Pro 15″, on top of a 17″ MacBook Pro. The more I see the new MacBook Air’s the more I like them. This picture also does a great job of demonstrating how Apple iterates … Read More

Disable Anti-Aliasing in Mac OS X Zoom

Dec 31, 2010 - 9 Comments

You probably know by now that you can zoom into anything in Mac OS X by holding down the Control key and then using the scroll wheel or a two-fingered forward swipe on the trackpad. You’ve also probably noticed that the more you zoom in, the blurrier things get because you’re zooming into anti-aliased graphics … Read More

Re-Open Last Closed Safari Tab with Command+Z

Dec 31, 2010 - Leave a Comment

Did you accidentally close a browser tab or window? The feeling isn’t great, right? You may have lost an important webpage before you were finished with it, or without bookmarking it. Well in Mac OS X you can quickly restore and reopen that last closed Safari window or tab by hitting a a simple undo … Read More

Rotate Mac Screen Orientation

Dec 28, 2010 - 59 Comments

A little known trick allows users to rotate the Mac screen, thereby allowing a display to run in a vertical 90 degree orientation, or even in a flipped mode. Display rotation is possible on any monitor connected to any Mac, whether that’s an external display or even on the the primary built-in screens of a … Read More

Save credentials when printing with Active Directory from a Mac

Dec 24, 2010 - Leave a Comment

Setting your Mac up to print to a Windows print server with Active Directory is pretty straight forward, but it’s really annoying that your network credentials aren’t stored which causes the login popup screen to display. Looking for a solution to this, I came across a post at TheAppleBlog, and the author had the exact … Read More

Broken MacBook Pro screen? Turn it into a desktop Mac!

Dec 21, 2010 - 16 Comments

Have you broken your MacBook Pro screen? The cost to replace a cracked or dead screen of a MacBook or MacBook Pro can be very expensive, but instead of considering the broken MacBook Pro useless, just turn it into a desktop Mac! Equipment necessary to use a broke screen MacBook Pro as a desktop Mac: … Read More

How to Set a Static IP Address on a Mac

Dec 17, 2010 - 8 Comments

If you want to set your Mac to always have the same IP address (also known as a static IP address), you can easily configure this to be set in the Network settings of OS X. This can be valid for both wi-fi networks and wired ethernet networks, and it can also be set under … Read More

Disable the Sudden Motion Sensor on a Mac

Dec 16, 2010 - 6 Comments

The Sudden Motion Sensor is designed to protect your Macs hard drive in the event of a computer being dropped or an unusually strong vibration. Essentially what it does is park the hard drive head when movement is detected, which prevents it from potentially scooting across the disk surface and scratching or otherwise damaging the … Read More

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