Category: Mac Treat

If you are among the prestigious ranks of “day one” iOS device users, you likely glide over the virtual keyboard on your device of choice with a smug confidence. While no level of practice can seemingly thwart the partly useful, mostly annoying, auto correct feature of iOS 4—I’ve had to “de-dudeify” my own vocabulary as…

We’ve all been there. You’re in the middle of watching the latest Swinging Corgi video on YouTube, when the boss comes around asking about TPS reports and missing cover sheets. In a situation such as this, you may only have a second to react before you find yourself explaining how the video was actually “important…

There’s nothing quite like the feeling of cracking open the windows for the first time after a long cold winter. Many times the accompanying burst of fresh spring air inspires a bout of frantic house cleaning. While wiping away winter’s dust and recirculating pent-up musty air can leave you and your abode feeling clean and…

Spotlight, OS X’s system-wide search feature, was first introduced in Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger in 2005. Since its debut, Spotlight has become the go to resource for quickly locating files on the Mac. While many users are perfectly satisfied clicking the magnifying glass at the top right of their screen and inputing a query,…

Finder windows are among the most commonly accessed components of OS X’s graphical user interface (GUI). These windows are used to organize and locate files, browse and store applications, conduct searches, and connect to external drives. While most users have, at some point, experimented with customizing the Finder’s iTunes-esque sidebar to best suit their needs,…

BTV, LAX, JFK, IAD…no, I’m not talking about those kind of airports—though JFK’s new T5 is pretty cool—I’m talking about wireless networks. If your Mac goes everywhere with you, it’s a safe bet it has joined several wireless networks in its lifetime. You may have even joined multiple networks in the same building if you…

Mac OS X is well known for the deep levels of customization it affords users. Just about every aspect of the OS is customizable to an extent—especially if you know your way around the command line. Regardless of whether it’s through performance tweaks or aesthetic changes, making it your own is one of the joys…

This past weekend, I took a trip up to Montreal. As I approached the Canadian border, I received an alarming text message on my iPhone. It was AT&T offering a friendly reminder that if I continued to use my iPhone in Canada as vigorously as I do in the States, they would bleed my wallet…

We’ve all been there. You arrive at the office intent on listening to your tunes, only to discover you’ve left your headphones at home. At Small Dog, a quick trip to the warehouse to browse our inventory for a replacement set is all that’s required, but many are without that luxury. So lets say you’re…

This past week Kali and I had to swap a number of emails with very large attachments—up to 19MB. That’s at the upper limit of what our mail server can handle. If the attachments were much larger, we’d use our public iDisk folder, included with MobileMe, or Dropbox to exchange the files. However, time was…