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.

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

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...

Jan 9, 2010

If like me, you keep an eye on the Mac OSX Activity Monitor, you’ve likely noticed a process running called securityd and wondered what it is for?  Why is running? Securityd is the Macintosh OSX process that handles and maintains security contexts and arbitrates cryptographic operations and Security Authorizations.  I know I know, what does all that...

Jan 9, 2010

If like me, you keep an eye on the Mac OSX activity monitor, then you’ve likely seen ntpd and wonder what the heck it is. NTPD is the Unix (or in this case Macintosh OSX) Network Time Protocol Daemon.  NTPD is the service that your Macintosh computer uses to keep the time up to date (assuming you are using the system default setting – Set Date and Time...