Today I started using Evernote with my Mac and my iPhone. I've been hearing so many other people rave about Evernote, and yet I never saw the practical use for it. Until earlier today. I was cleaning off my desk and noticing the number of postcards and business cards from various craft fairs, art ...
Hooray for AirPlay — and for AirPlay Receivers
Since 2004, you could connect an AirPort Express (not Extreme) to an amplifier or self-powered speakers, and play music wirelessly using iTunes (and from any application or web site if you install Rogue Amoeba's Airfoil software). Apple called this AirTunes. Then the Apple TV came along and Apple ...
iTunes Authorizations and Associations
Apple ostensibly likes to keep things simple, which often means a lack of comprehensive explanation. One subject they haven't taken the time to lay out clearly is what iTunes purchases are allowed on what devices. Here's how it works: A desktop computer (Mac or PC) running iTunes must be ...
Create or Update a Lion or Mountain Lion Recovery Partition
Hooray! brunerd has written an easy to use utility that will create a Lion or Mountain Lion Recovery partition if you don't have one (for example, if you performed a full-system Time Machine restore to a brand new drive). It will also update the Recovery partition to the current version of OS X, ...
Sandbox, or cage?
One of the requirements of all apps in the Mac App Store is that they "play in their own sandbox," meaning that, like iPhone/iPad apps, they can't interact with other applications or the larger operating system outside themselves. While this might be fine for many games and productivity ...
Still on Leopard (10.5)? Prepare to pay to upgrade
If you're still running Leopard, aka Mac OS X 10.5, you now have no Apple-provided way of getting either Lion or Mountain Lion on your machine. You will have to buy a Snow Leopard DVD -- formerly $29, but now upwards of $70 on Amazon and eBay to update your system, and then you will have access to ...