Jun 15, 2010

A sparsebundle is a really nice feature under OS X that allows you to create a file to send your time machine backups to.  There’s a whole lot of good reasons to create one and we’re going to walk you through it! So what is a sparsebundle anyway?  A sparsebundle is a file on the Mac OSX filesytem for use with time machine. Let me ask a couple of...

Jun 14, 2010

By default, Mac OS X will cache DNS requests.  Caching means that the OS remembers the IP addresses of sites you’ve visited.   This is done to speed up browsing of the web by not asking for information again that we already know.  Sometimes however, things change, and we need to delete that cache before it expires naturally. For OS X Tiger use the...

Jun 14, 2010

New Mac users switching from Windows often run into very infuriating problems.  In Windows it worked one way, in the Mac it works another.  Some things for the better, some things just different. We talked in a previous article about Steve Jobs and his OCD tendencies for the way his company is run, and for the way his computers or software products are...

Jun 14, 2010

A question I get asked often from Mac newbies: “How do I hide all of these hard drives on my desktop?”  I’ve got some great news for you.  It’s super simple! Macintosh by default puts icons for all of your hard drives on the desktop.  While this might be useful for some, it can be very annoying for others.  Especially when you connect...

Jun 14, 2010

One of the things many Windows users who are moving to the Mac find frustrating is the lack of a right click.  What many don’t know is that the Mac does support right click! In fact, Mac has supported right click since OS 8!  A little background before we begin. Steve Jobs, the CEO of Apple, Inc. has OCD.  Seriously.  Steve is passionate about Apple...

Jun 13, 2010

If you’ve been around a few friends who love computers, then you’ve probably heard the age old argument of “Which is better, Mac or PC?”  Mac vs. PC has has almost become a religious war.  “Macs Rule, PCs Drool”. One of my favorite quotes along the way is “No one uses a Mac at work, and buys a PC at home.  Macs are...