July 27th in General.

Dumping Microsoft Office Suite for an alternative

There are alternatives out there — all cheaper than Microsoft’s standard, and a couple that are even free. I use NeoOffice.

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July 27th in General.

The 10 Commandments of Mac Optimization

I found this very good post and wanted to brink it to you. It has some very good ideas

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s Mac. Thou shalt not commit peripheral adultery. Remember the Stevenote and keep it holy.

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July 18th in General.

Backup Your Mac :: My First Mac – Help Buying and Getting Started with Your

You’ve amassed a few gigabytes of carefully catalogued music, irreplaceable photos, work and personal documents as well as other important digital wares. You’re happily surfing along when all of a sudden your computer freezes and sounds like a parade of ping-pong balls.

Oh. No. The telltale sign of a hard-drive failure.

No worries though. You have your backup. “My what?!”, you say.

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July 18th in General.

Maximizing Windows, Grouping Folders in Finder, and Sizing the Dock on the

Welcome to My First Mac’s Q&A column. It is said that Macs are easier to use, but they are still complex in their own right. Here are a few questions we have received lately from readers like you. Sometimes we reformat the questions for clarity and presentation.
This week we have questions about how to Maximize/Optimize your windows, Seeing folders all together in the Finder and getting your Dock sized right.

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July 11th in General.

How to keep your desktop clutter-free

Is your desktop littered with icons of files and folders? Here’s how to keep it neat and tidy.

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July 6th in General.

Parallels PCs & Macs Coexist videos posted

Parallels, developers of the award-winning software that enables Mac users to run Windows, Linux, and any other operating system at the same time, has posted several interesting videos to their Web site. Fashioned after Apple’s popular “I’m and Mac. I’m a PC” advertising spots, the videos show the experience of running Windows and Mac OS X.

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June 14th in General.

How to: Get Safari’s best features in Firefox

As we’re all aware by now, Safari is now available for Windows. So the question is, is there any compelling reason you might want to switch from the venerable Firefox to Safari? To its credit, though, Safari does have several enviable features. Rather than suggesting anyone move, here’s a list of it’s best features and the matching FF extensions

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June 14th in General.

Tips/How To: Run Safari 3 Beta and Safari 2 at the same time

If, like me, you like to beta test your software without leaving the safety of your currently working apps, here’s your workaround

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June 12th in General.

LifeHacker Top 10 Apps That Should’ve Been in Leopard

While the Leopard improvements to come in October do indeed look cool, OS X still lacks functionality provided by third party applications. oday’s special Leopard top 10 lists software applications we wish Apple would buy, build or bundle to improve Mac OS X even more.

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