December 21, 2010
After a decade as a Windows user, I recently purchased a MacBook laptop. There are many things that I like about it, such as the long battery life and the amazing integration of the touchpad into the navigation of OS X. There is one thing that bugs me about it, however – Finder. Compared to [...]
December 10, 2010
There are several features that I like about OS X, but Spotlight is not one of them. Spotlight is a desktop search feature for Mac OS X and when it was released in 2005, it was very nifty and useful. It felt cutting edge, even quick. However, it doesn’t seem to have aged very well. [...]
September 2, 2010
Apple is famous for its simple, clean and minimalist look on their products. Not only the hardware, but also the user interface of its operating system and applications. I’m sure most Mac users are fine with that, otherwise they wouldn’t choose Mac, would they? But some people – especially those who switched from the Windows [...]
July 23, 2010
If you are relatively new to the Mac and you rely on the default setup of the Mac Finder, you are probably taking longer to find items on your hard drive than you actually need to. The Finder, like other applications, can be customized and turbocharged so that you can access and open items faster. [...]
January 21, 2010
Ask any Mac user to make a list of applications that opens the most on their machine and you’ll definitely see Finder there. Then someone would say that it’s unfair to allow Finder to be on the list because Mac users don’t even have a choice. Finder always starts automatically with Mac OS X, and [...]
April 19, 2009
Suppose you have a document file you want to send via email, what should you do? Here are the not-so-orderly sequences: 1. You open Mail, 2. Create a new message, 3. Click “Add Attachment”, 4. Browse to the location of the file, 5. Select the file, 6. Click “Attach”, 7. Then you can write the [...]
April 14, 2009
Most modern computer users might find it difficult to imagine living in the time when the size of computer hard disks was within the range of a few megabytes. But users from the early days of computers knew the storage space limitation so well that they learned to be very selective in choosing which files [...]
March 1, 2009
Generally, Stacks has been ill-received by the Mac community due to its lack of functionality although it was pretty hyped up before Leopard was launched. In my opinion, Stacks isn’t as bad as most people make it seem. I’ve found several useful reasons to keep it around, one of which is detailed here: Use Stacks [...]
