Category: Tech News

Many of us know it’s very easy to create a PDF in OS 10.3 and 10.4. Open the document you want to save as a PDF file. Choose File > Print. Choose a command from the PDF pop-up menu. To create a PDF file, choose Save as PDF. This creates a digital master PDF file.…

From Art Hendrickson As a phone rep for our technical service and repair team, I take a ton of phone calls pertaining to Apple’s iPods. In almost all cases, I have to request that the person tries restoring the iPod using the iPod Updater Utility, which is essentially erasing the iPod, and starting over. This…

From Art Hendrickson Every Mac user should know how to get help or research an issue when something goes awry with the normal operation of one’s computer. I often refer people to the Apple Support Discussion Forum when giving tech support. There’s an enormous quantity of information available under quite a few categories, such as…

The internet is abuzz with news that researchers David Maynor and Jon “Johnny Cache” Ellch from Blackhat (a website dedicated to computer security) have exploited what they call “buggy code in the device driver” of a third-party wi/fi USB card plugged into a black MacBook, allowing them “complete interactive access” to the MacBook. This has…

Reading online, I’ve noticed many new articles comparing the virtues of various Macintosh web browsers. For example, I noticed a great article over at The Apple Blog comparing most of the major browsers. Click here to read it. There’s a nice summery for Shiira, which we’ll be reviewing in a future blog post, after we…

It’s possible that I wrote about this web broswer that was made just for checking your GMail. If not you can skim this article on TUAW which talks about it. This new application called Gcal allows for the exact same thing but this time it’s for Google Calendar. It’s basically just a window with no…

Remember when you were a kid, and you’d get a new pair of shoes that made you feel like you could run so fast you’d fly? That’s how I feel about my new Nike + shoes, and the Nike + iPod kit. The $29 Nike + iPod kit contains a receiver that attaches to an…

In last week’s Kibbles & Bytes, I wrote about what I consider to be essential OS X applications. These are applications that don’t come bundled with new Macs. Some are freeware, some are shareware, and some are boxed commercial programs. I recommended Office 2004, Photoshop Elements 4, Onyx, Adium, VLC, Flip4Mac, Firefox, Thunderbird, MacTheRipper, SuperDuper,…

I know Blizzard just recently updated World of Warcraft but they’ve gone ahead and released another patch. This patch just fixes some disconnection issues that people might have been having. This patch is for both PCs and Macs. I am not sure if anyone out there plays World of Warcraft, but you can usually find…

This morning I walked into work and saw I had the Software Update screen up. I thought it said I needed to update my PowerBook to 10.3.9 (quick glance, don’t ask! I am still waking up.) but then I realized it was to Tiger 10.4.7! – The 10.4.7 Update is recommended for all users and…