Category: Mac Treat

I’m the kind of person who thoroughly enjoys road trips, and since I’ve been surgically attached to using an iPhone, it has dramatically changed the way I travel. This past 4th of July weekend, I discovered something extremely helpful on my iPhone about half an hour into my five hour+ drive. In the Maps app,…

Earlier this week, Lifehacker.com posted a great article titled How to Stay Safe on Public Wi-Fi Networks. The article covers setting up and automating all the right settings on Mac and Windows. While we generally prefer to suggest unique Mac Treats, in this case, the article is so good that we’re simply going to refer…

Did you know that iTunes keeps a back-up copy of every iPod, iPhone, and iPad software update ever downloaded? If you’re a long time “iDevice” user or have multiple devices in your family synced to the same machine, these updates can really add up in terms of disk space. With the introduction of more feature…

Quick Look is one of my favorite features of OS 10.5 Leopard and OS 10.6 Snow Leopard. Quick Look provides instant, full resolution (but not editable) previews of many files simply by selecting the document and pressing the space bar. I use Quick Look to preview photos, read Pages documents without launching Pages, skim through…

I’ve recently spent a few hours cleaning up my iPhoto library. This included adding proper image titles, keywords, updating Places and Faces info, deleting duplicates (and redundant photos in general), as well as deleting albums, smart folders, and slideshows that have outlived their usefulness. Here are a few tricks I discovered that aren’t documented by…

Last night my car was broken into, for the first time in over a decade. My wallet was stolen (though the thief discarded about $200 in Canadian money on the floor), but so was my purple 16GB iPod nano. Unfortunately,we hear about the theft of iPods, iPhones, iPads and Macs on a regular basis. Here’s…

I’ve been using Apple’s MobileMe service for years—even way back when it was called .Mac.* I remember when it was free a free service; it’s now a $99 annual subscription (though we often have coupons, rebates, and other offers for up to $30 off MobileMe, click here to see special offers on MobileMe). I continue…

Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday to me… oh, sorry about that. Just got carried away for a minute there. Today’s Mac Treat is a simple one, but you know, it’s my birthday today, so I felt it was appropriate. I find new iCal features that I love all the time, and this is one…

Top Sites is one of Safari 4’s most notable features. Top Sites provides an at-a-glance preview of your favorite and most visited websites. While you browse, Safari 4 indexes and ranks your favorite sites, and then presents up to 24 thumbnails of those sites on a single page. Sites with a star icon in the…

I love, love, LOVE my Magic Mouse. But that’s another article. My Magic Mouse is set to use the right-click as a secondary button, as many mice are apt to do, and the real topic of discussion is addition of some extras in the right-click context menu. In 10.6, there are far more options than…