Category: 836: Terminal, Hidden Desktop Photos, Video Card Replacements, Closeout Price Drops

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Thanks to reader Anthony R., we were enlightened as to yet another way to access the hidden user Library folder in 10.7 and beyond. If you hold down Option when clicking on the *Go* menu item, you’ll get an option for Library. Thanks, Anthony!

If you have ever tried to find a third party video card for a Mac Pro, you know that options are few and far between. NVIDIA and Radeon have limited the selection of video cards marketed to the Apple community for quite some time; there are few users in the Mac community interested in upgrading…

I recently discovered that Mountain Lion has a few folders of high resolution pictures that are normally unavailable to users. From what I hear, these are screen saver images for the Apple TV. (I haven’t verified that yet though.) To find the images click on the *Go* menu and choose *Go to folder,* or press…

So this is the first in what will be an ongoing series of articles involving the utility called Terminal. Terminal, also known as the command line, offers you direct access to the Unix bedrock of Mac OS X. To some, it is very familiar territory. There are network admins and power users who use terminal…

_Hello all,_ It definitely feels like fall. Mid-40s in the morning and somewhere in the high 60s for today according to noaa.org. It’s one of the things I like about going away for this particular weekend — when I leave, it is summer, and when I come back, it is fall. Sifting through my loaded…