Jun 28, 2010

While some people find the need for a clicking sound on the iPad (due to lack of a physical keyboard), others simply despise it.  How do you turn it off?  Well let me show you! The first thing you need to do is tap the settings icon on your home screen. On the left tap General and then on the right tap Sounds. Now simply click the Keyboard Clicks switch to...

Jun 28, 2010

Windows 7 is full of annoyances.   One of those annoyances is that every time you click anything in Windows Explorer, it feels the need to make a clicking sound.  And it might sound silly, but where is the “Stop it!” check box to turn this thing off?  There isn’t once.  Microsoft must not think you will want to! Turn off Explorer Click...

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...

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...