Category: How-To

David@Smalldog.com A number of people have been coming in the store with their new iPods and interest in podcasting and streaming radio. Coupled with this interest, however, is a desire to archive these digital media. Saving podcasts is easy. But what about that episode of “Fresh Air,” streamed in iTunes? Here’s a tip to capture…

Originally Posted on BinaryEquine.com I just set up some message boards that I only want to let a few select people use. Now I could have probably set something up so that you would have to be a registered member to see any content posted on the message board but for the purpose of educating…

Last week I talked about how to make a widget, and now I’m going to talk about how to submit your widget to several websites so that other people can download and enjoy your creation. The 2 websites that I use for submitting my website are Apple’s own Dashboard widgets site and DashboardWidgets. Both web…

By Logan@Smalldog.com While checking my email the other day on my Powerbook G3, I noticed it was running very slow, so I decided to run a unknown maintenance feature in Mac OS X. It is a terminal command that will make your computer run faster and is very easy to do. Simply open Terminal and…

Apple released their widget making application in beta format just yesterday so I grabbed a copy today and started playing around with it. Let me just say this first, it’s unusually easy to create a widget! When you open the application you can choose from about 6 templates to get you going or you can…

This “hack” has been around for quite some time now, but I thought I would talk about it again because I had the need to put a widget on my desktop for quicker access. Essentially this little trick saves you from having to go into Dashboard. The widget will sit right on your desktop. First…

We’ve entered the second-half of December and here in Vermont there is not as much snow as one might expect. This has become quite a sad fact for us skiers and snowboarders, but I’ve found a quick and painless solution: Snowfall for your Mac! This very detailed, crisp and beautiful screen saver has been blogged…

Before you dive into this article you need to know that you will be using the terminal. The terminal can look really scary but trust me it’s not all that bad. Rsync is a command line utility that can sync your data to other places on your hard drive, from hard drive to hard drive…

Mac Treat # 8 (Oringially Apperaed in Kibbles & Bytes) This is a tip for people who frequently power off their Macs, but always launch the same applications when turning their Mac back on. People like me – I mainly use a MacBook Pro, which I almost always shut off when I’m traveling. There are…

One more cool tip for content and iTunes for the day. I’ve downloaded a couple TV shows not from iTunes and they will not show up in the TV Shows playlist. Doug has done it once again and has created an Applescript to let you change the video file type so that it will show…