Nothing says “Hands off! This is MY Mac” like a highly customized desktop. http://www.pixelgirlpresents.com/icons.php?page=4&cat=mac http://interfacelift.com/icons-mac/ Once you’ve chosen a Icon Set (or six,) unpack them to a folder on the desktop. Right click then Get Info on the new Icon. At the top will be a picture of the Icon, highlight this then use to [...]

How To: Change DNS (and make web surfing faster) The Internet is so big now, and the average person has more bandwidth at home then existed in the entire world in 1980, that the biggest slow down in web surfing has become the initial DNS or Domain Name Service look up. DNS is the service [...]

An IP address is a number that identifies devices connected to a network. In short every single computer, mobile phone, printer, server, etc, connected to the Internet is assigned a unique address. Note that this is totally different then a MAC address which is unique and is only assigned to one device. IP address can [...]

Deeper is a Mac OS X program that brings “hidden” system features to the desktop. All the features it can enable, disable or change are already accessible via the Terminal if the correct command is known. As such the software simply throws a nice graphical interface around these commands. While the GUI is fairly intuitive, [...]

How To: Find MAC Address on local computer One of the ways to increase security on a wireless (or really, ANY) network is to only allow computers with certain MAC Addresses to connect. Many wireless routers made for the consumer market have this feature built in and can be set in the security settings. Any [...]