News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
OS X’s ever-present Dock can help you manage your applications and documents. But are you taking advantage of all the ways it can make your work easier? Here are some tips for using the Dock efficiently – whether you're quickly accessing files, folders and applications or turning on and off your tunes. 1. Add what you need The Dock contains two sections: one for applications and the other for files, folders, and the Trash. If your Dock is at the bottom of your screen, you’ll find applications to the left of the separator (the dashed line). Some icons stay in the Dock permanently. Click on the...
When you want to examine your iTunes library, you have a choice of different views—ways to display the content. You can choose a different view for each part of your iTunes library, whether it be for the sub-libraries (such as Music, Movies, TV Shows, or Audiobooks) or for playlists, and iTunes remembers these views for each part of its display. Here’s a look at the three different views, when you might want to use them, and which options each one offers.
Kirk McElhearn | Feb 25, 2010
Last week, Apple released Aperture 3, a major new version that offers “over 200 new features,” according to the company’s Aperture page. Before you rush to upgrade, though, you might want to check out Apple’s Support site. Apple has already posted more than two dozen Knowledge Base articles citing various problems that you may confront with Aperture 3.
Ted Landau | Feb 22, 2010
If you use Screen Sharing a lot in OS X 10.6, there are a couple ways to make it easier to connect to your Macs. First, there’s ScreenSharingMenulet, which places an icon in your menu bar, showing machines you’ve previously connected to via Screen Sharing. If you’d rather keep your menu bar uncluttered, though, here’s a built-in solution.
Rob Griffiths | Feb 19, 2010
There was a time when I'd explain the basics of digital photography by describing the memory card as "digital film." These days, digital cameras have been around so long that some people have never used a film camera, so that comparison is getting a little dated. Nonetheless, flash memory cards play a critical role in photography, holding your digital photos until you can get them onto your Mac for more permanent storage. Once you have the chosen the best memory card for your camera, the next step is knowing how to take proper care of it.
Dave Johnson, PC World | Feb 19, 2010
As I type these words, I am waiting for Apple's Developer Connection web site to ease up sufficiently for me to download the long-awaited Software Developer Kit for the iPhone (and iPod touch, just by the by). In a way, I hate developer-oriented announcements — "here's a really cool thing we're working on, and it's available now, and hoi polloi can have it in about six months". Actually, it's the six months I hate.
