February 11, 2013
For me, RSS feeds are the ideal way to keep up to date with all the websites I'm interested in - a centralised news-pool, so you don't have to check your browser every five minutes just to stay on top of the news. Google Reader does a great job organizing your RSS feeds, and Reeder wonderfully integrates Google Reader on your Mac. There's no shortage of ways to access those RSS feeds, but part of the problem remains.
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July 16, 2012
The menu bar on my Mac gets more attention these days than the Dock. The reason for this is quite simple - it's incredibly compact and dynamic in comparison. One menu bar application will show you an unread count of your email inbox, but remain unobtrusive. That application is accompanied by numerous useful tools and system settings that are within easy reach without taking up a lot of screen real-estate.
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May 30, 2012
The menu bar of Mac computers has become, for many power users, nearly as crowded and used as items in the Dock. Besides the default items that appear in the menu bar - including Spotlight, the Users switcher, and the digital calendar - many third-party applications include menu bar items that make it easier to input or access data or navigate programs, without launching yet another application or window.
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January 25, 2012
Computers are made to multitask. As a result, we all have to juggle with multiple open windows to jump back and forth between various tasks. Sometimes, however, you just want to keep one window in your view regardless of what else happens on your screen. Surprisingly, Windows does not offer a native feature for this task. In this article I will introduce five tools that fill this niche.
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November 18, 2011
In my eyes, software developers can often be the saviors of the world, especially when they develop and release little free Mac gems that save us power users several laborious clicks or taps to get something done. This is the case with a new Apple related search application called Tunesque.
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July 5, 2011
We've covered some Great Tips and Tools For a Clean and Minimalist Mac Desktop before. This time, I'll be focusing on specifically the menu bar. Due to my small 13" MacBook Pro screen, which has even less resolution than the 13" Air, I am forced to look for any way to clear the screen, such as making elements smaller in browsers, so I can fit two applications side by side.
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June 16, 2011
Does Apple's System Preferences generally just annoy you? Well, there's a way out. The coders at iThink Software also got annoyed with Apple Preferences and decided to write MenuPrefs in order to make it more manageable. Now, instead of click after click, you can now access all of your favourite Apple Preference Panes via the Menu Bar. It's all just there.
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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 [...]
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August 5, 2010
Applications are an integral part of any operating system. They give your machine specific abilities and enhances your computer using experience. Today, there are virtually applications for almost every kind of task that you can think of. During the years of my interactions with computers, I’ve found and tried countless applications of various magnitudes; from [...]
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July 2, 2010
Sharing files with friends is something that most people do quite often. Photos, documents and other such items are commonly passed out among friends through social networks. However, actually sharing the files can be a bit of a pain, particularly if you use multiple social networks. This is a problem which two applications, Droplr and [...]
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April 8, 2010
In this article I’m going to cover a bit about how cloud file sharing works. No normal human can live alone and being social creatures means that we live and interact with others. We also share things with others, starting from small things like children’s pictures and cooking recipes to something grand like religious beliefs. [...]
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December 31, 2009
Recently I was traveling to a city on the other side of the island to attend a family wedding. I don’t know exactly how far it is, but we were on the bus for 28 hours just to get there (and multiply that by two because there’s the return trip home). Going on a plane [...]
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November 22, 2009
I don’t think I need to give a long introduction to iTunes as many consider it to be the best digital music manager and player available today. MakeUseOf has even dedicated an entire PDF Manual for it: The BIG Book of iTunes. But even the best will still have room for improvement. I was looking [...]
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November 11, 2009
Those who frequently work with portable Macs should really consider reading this article. I’ve been dealing with some internet connectivity issues at home recently and as a result, I’ve had to bring my MacBook to Starbucks where I get to leech off free wifi in exchange for a Chai Latté. Sure, that temporarily connected me [...]
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November 6, 2009
I’m a huge web geek and I spend hours, literally, crawling the Internet for cool apps and ideas for my next article. Sometimes I’ll stumble upon a really great application, then another one and another. Before I know it, my browser is filled with opened tabs and Safari is hogging up all the memory. I [...]
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