How to change Mac OS X’s login background

Have you ever wanted to change the default background that Mac OS X displays when you log in to your computer? Luckily, it’s a pretty simple task to do. Here are the steps for Mac OS X Leopard: 1. Get a picture you’d like to be your new background. This can be from anywhere on [...]

An iTunes tip

The other day I was using iTunes an accidentally stumbled upon a neat little feature in iTunes.  While you’re listening/watching to something in iTunes, rather than dragging the slider to adjust the volume, you can instead place your cursor over the slider and use your scroll whell.  To turn the volume up you scroll up [...]

Increase the size of your Mac OS X desktop icons

While teaching computer courses to senior citizens, one thing that consistently comes up is the size of the content being displayed on the screen.  One area where this can be particularly aggravating for people with poor eyesight is the desktop, since it is often cluttered with all sorts of icons.  Well, in Mac OS X, there is [...]

Take control of your Mac

If you’re like me, you want your computer to be fast.  However, no matter how much RAM you have or how fast your processor is, there are some things that you just can’t speed up, well, at least with hardware.  Think of it like this.  Your Mac is like a convertible.  It’s sleek, it’s powerful, [...]

Up, up and away – moving our content into the cloud

As more and more of our digital lives begin to move off the desktop and into the “cloud” that is the Internet, the role of computer companies is starting to drastically change.  What once was stored locally on our personal computers is now being stored thousands of miles away on servers.  Companies like Google are [...]

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