Watch me participate in a panel discussion at KansasFest 2010, with Martin Haye and Mike Maginnis, moderated by Ken Gagne. The topic is "Apple's Growing Divide Between Users and Programmers," and we discuss whether Apple has strayed from its roots of making computers that encourage and empower users ...
How to Back Up your Entourage Email on your Mac
Are you using Entourage for email, and Time Machine for backup? Entourage stores all email in one giant database, which gets bigger every time you get or send an email. And having a big database means frequent database corruption. Time Machine backs up everything new once an hour, which means ...
Organizing and Syncing Files on your Mac Computers with SugarSync
What's the easiest way to set up your Mac for SugarSync? SugarSync synchronizes files across multiple computers. So if you have a computer at work, but you want to do some work on files at home, you can sync your files from your office to your home computer. (SugarSync works for the PC and the ...
How to Set Your Own Keyboard Shortcuts on the Mac
My recent post listed the top 10 keyboard shortcuts for the Mac, which can save lots of time and increase productivity. But what if there isn't a key command set on the Mac for something you do regularly? Here's how to set your own key commands. 1. Under the Apple menu in the top left, choose ...
Why Jailbreak Your iPhone?
A blog post at one of my favorite Apple blogs, The Unofficial Apple Weblog (or TUAW) asks the question, Why jailbreak your phone? Now that iOS 4 (the operating system for the new iPhone 4) can be jailbroken simply by going to a website, it's easier than ever before to do it. Even if you're not ...
Make Your Own Books with Blurb Software
You may already be making books and cards using the built-in capabilities of iPhoto. But there are other sources out there for making books too. Blurb is a piece of software you download to your computer. It's for Mac and Windows. Then you paste images and text, you can resize images, you can ...