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 [...]

File sharing between Vista and Mac OS X Leopard

I can’t tell you how many hours I poured into trying to get my Mac and PC to communicate with each other.  It was very frustrating to have to use a USB drive every time I wanted to transfer files from one to the other, but I could never find a good, comprehensive guide as [...]

Make PowerPoint 2004 for Mac start where you want it to

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen people accidentally start their PowerPoint presentations in the wrong place.  Most people think that the only way to start a slide show is to click “Slide Show” in the menu bar and choose “View Show”.  While this is fine for starting a slideshow from the beginning, [...]

Quitting out of Mac OS X applications

Many people, especially those coming from a Windows environment, are not used to closing an application in Mac OS X.  Application windows in Mac OS X usually have three buttons, red, yellow and green.  The green button is a magnifying button that will expand a window to the size required to see all its information.  [...]