June 4, 2012
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 [...]
December 31, 2011
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 [...]
October 21, 2011
From the command line: sudo mdutil -E / sudo mdutil -i on / The amount of time this will take depends on how many files are on your hard drive.
June 21, 2011
How To: Use Equation editor in Office 2008 (for Mac) Equation Editor in Office 2008 should be installed by a default install of Office. If for some reason it is not, you’ll need to find your Office Disc and reinstall Office 2008 for Macintosh. To check if Equation Editor is already installed, look in /Applications/Microsoft [...]
June 16, 2011
How To: Tweak OS X “Spaces” Spaces is OSX’s cool virtual window program that allows “multiple” desktops to be setup. The thought is that it allows you to group programs together by task and thereby increasing your workflow productivity. Apple has a great tutorial on how to really maximize it’s usefulness. But some of us [...]