Category: 858: MacUpdate: Compendium of Cool Software, How to Disable Dashboard, Why Did My Hard Drive Die?

The new Retina display Macs are now coming with an HDMI port, but it wasn’t always that way. In the not to distant past Mac owners had to use their mini DisplayPort to send video/audio out to their HDTV. To do that you need a cable. Bundled together we have an Apple refurbished 15-inch MacBook…

Apple certainly has a keen eye for design when it comes to their products. They make things small and compact which makes their portability unmatched. Unfortunately at the same time, you can run out of ports in the blink of an eye. The Quirky Contort gives you the extra expandability that you need. For this…

Long cables are a catch 22. It’s nice to have the extra length when you need it but what do you do with all that excess when you don’t? Quirky Cordlets are a perfect solution to keeping all of your pesky cables in line. For anyone interested in cable management around the office or at…

The old adage says there are only two certainties in life: death and taxes. I’d like to add a third: hard drives die. It might be today, tomorrow, next week, next year. It might be five years from now. At some point, it will die. The eternal question is, why? Hard disks are prone to…

Dashboard is a feature built in to Mac OS X 10.4 and up that allows you to customize a variety of widgets within a readily accessible screen overlay. This may seem like a handy tool to have on your desktop, but the truth is, these widgets can be quite the little ram hogs, slowing down…

One of my favorite things about being a Mac user is getting to enjoy all sorts of great freeware and shareware applications. There are cooking programs, network utilities, games, interface enhancements, widgets, and much more. I’m a daily reader of MacUpdate, which is a site that lists freeware, shareware and commercial updates as they are…

Hello all, I recently had a realization that for those of us in the north, Groundhog Day is a win-win. If our man Punxsutawney Phil doesn’t see his shadow, we get an early spring. If he does see his shadow, we get six more weeks of winter…which for us here in Vermont is still an…