Category: Mac Treat

One of the joys of using OS X is discovering useful little features on a regular basis. I frequently hear this from new Mac users, but it’s just as true for me—and I’ve used a Mac daily for more years than I care to relate. These “new” discoveries are often old news to other Mac…

This is a useful tip that I recently picked up from the Apple Pro site. It often happens that you have a file open in a program such as Photoshop or Word, but don’t know where that file is saved on your hard drive. For example, you may have double-clicked on a file inside your…

The new Apple TV is one of the hottest gifts of the holiday season. I own one and simply love it. Perhaps more tellingly, the entire household loves it. Apple TV is the best way to stream Netflix movies and TV shows to our main television, the iTunes store has enough new movies to save…

In the spirit of the season, this Mac treat involves Mac tricks. Here are three easy jokes you can play on your friends and family who use Macs. These jokes are fun in the office and also at home. Needless to say, you’ll need access to your targets computer. Please be respectful of their privacy…

I noticed this Pro Tip a couple of weeks ago on Apple’s website, and immediately realized how useful it could be. Most web pages, blog entries, and images posted online are often tagged with keywords: terms that help identify and locate relevant content via web searches. These keywords might not even appear in the text…

I’m a bit of a self-proclaimed “shortcut nut.” Whether increasing my own productivity or just wowing my friends (though they’re never really that impressed), I’m always looking for ways to ditch the mouse and keep my fingers dancing across the keys. I most recently discovered this useful Safari tip which saves the trip to the…

I feel like I’ve been living in iCal for the past few weeks. That’s because I’m using it to create and manage the marketing calendar for our new store at the Mall of New Hampshire. When iCal debuted in the fall of 2002, I admit at first I didn’t like it. It was clumsy to…

We have three different Airport wifi networks at our headquarters in Waitsfield, Vermont. Recently I was in the office by myself and couldn’t remember the very complicated password for our secure network, which I needed to access on my iPad. I almost gave up, but then remembered that I had previously accessed the network with…

On any given day, I have about five windows open in Safari, each with about seven or eight tabs. My brain seems to respond well to this setup—each window has a different “theme” and the tabs within are all closely related. So efficient! And space-saving! (By the way, whenever I restart my computer, I can’t…

Did you know that the lowly, everyday, bump-on-the log Calculator application built into OS X actually has some nifty features beyond doing math? I’m referring to the plain grey calculator found in the Applications folder of every version of OS X since 2002. First, did you know that Calculator keeps as a record of recent…