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, ...
Thunderbolt to FireWire adapter is must-have accessory for MacBook Air and Retina owners
At $29, Apple's new Thunderbolt to FireWire adapter is an essential accessory for the MacBook Pro with Retina Display, and MacBook Air models with a Thunderbolt port, even if you don't regularly use FireWire devices. Why? Because it allows you to easily get to the files on your drive, using target ...
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 ...
Disable Apple Mail Inline Attachments
Some research the other day led me to a helpful blog post explaining how to stop attachments from showing a preview of a PDF and/or image. If you would like to make this the default behavior you’ll need to use the Terminal to set the preference. Terminal is in Applications>Utilities. Open ...
Vizify – A Cuter, Simpler Facebook
If you use a computer today, you’re probably online or trying to get online. And if you’re online, you probably have at least one social networking profile. Whether you’re still sticking it out with Tom on MySpace or recently discovered the necessity of a LinkedIn profile (recent grads, you know ...
To Instagram or Not to Instagram? That is the Question.
My favorite line when someone tells me my iPhone has taken a sub-par photograph? “Don’t worry, I’ll Instagram it.” Since it’s inception, Instagram’s loyal followers have grown from a whole lot of hipsters to 50 million users. With its recent sale to Facebook, Instagram secured its spot as an ...