Jul 14, 2010

Have you ever been in a room with multiple Apple computers, and one or more remotes. The experience can drive you insane as a single remote starts controlling several computers.

Jul 14, 2010

Sometimes when you are around many Mac users and everyone has a remote, say during presentations it can be annoying to have others remote controls messing with your Mac. Or in the case of a kiosk computer, you don't ever want a remote control to function.

Jul 7, 2010

Have you ever had a problem with your Mac network and needed to release and renew your DHCP acquired IP address?

Jun 21, 2010

A frustration for new Mac OS X users is tap to click.  You can’t just tap the trackpad to click on an icon, you have to actually click the button.  Or do you? Actually, the truth is… enabling “tap to click” is very simple on the Mac.   To enable tap to click go to your system preferences and click on trackpad. The very first option...

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...