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.  [...]

Keynote + Apple Remote = great presentation

Have you ever needed to give a slide show for a school project, but didn’t want to have to manually click on your laptop’s keyboard or mouse button to advance to the next slide?  Well, if you have a MacBook or a MacBook Pro and a program called iWork installed, you can stop having to [...]

A review of the AirPort Extreme

Setting up a wireless home network may sound like a nightmare to many.  However, it has never been easier and there are more products to choose from than you can imagine.  There are several companies that manufacture wireless routers, (the equipment needed to set up a wireless network) such as Linksys and Netgear.  Apple is [...]

Firefox 3 Beta 4 impressions

Firefox has come a long way since its humble beginning in 2004. It has come to represent a viable alternative to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and, as a result, has gained over 15% of the browser market. Now, Mozilla (the developer behind Firefox) is hoping to continue this trend of success with the recent release of [...]

Apple AirPort Express now does 802.11n

The announcements just keep on coming. Between the newly revised MacBook Pros and the unveiling of the iPhone SDK, the folks over at Apple have been quite busy during the last few weeks. Well, apparently they haven’t let this get in the way of upgrading their AirPort product line.
On Monday, a new version [...]

Get organized with Delicious Library for Mac OS X

If you’re like me, you probably have more stuff than you know what to do with. DVDs, CDs, books, video games, it can get to the point where you don’t even know what you own! Luckily, there’s a solution - Delicious Library for Mac OS X (sorry PC users).
Delicious Library allows you to [...]