I’ve recently had some ask the question, ‘How do I know how much memory my Macintosh has?’ It’s very easy to find out how much memory your mac has – just go to the apple menu (top left of your screen) and select About this Mac.
Jul 22
Jun 27
My search for a good notetaking app has been a little on the obsessive side, but to me, the one thing a computer should be able to do well is take notes. I have spent 2 years on this one. I’m talking about an application where I can make a short note to myself and come back later and find it easily.
The combination of Notational Velocity on the mac, synced with Simplenote on the iphone, is for me the winner.
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Jun 26
Did you know that if you hold down SHIFT-COMMAND-4 you can take a picture of any part of your screen? Press SHIFT-COMMAND-4 and your cursor will turn into a cross-hair. (Try it right now!) Click and drag over anything and you can take a picture. It’s how most of the small pictures on this website are made.
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Jun 14
It’s slightly off topic but this is so well done I simply could not resist posting a link to it…
http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/06/09/excellent-mac-classic-converted-to-ipad-stand/
ShareJun 07
Google ical calender service is the easiest and most flexible free shared ical calendar service that I’ve found, but it used to be a little confusing to set up on a mac.
The great news is now in Snow Leopard syncing with a gmail calendar is built into ical and it’s dead easy. (See this post on what a mess it used to be and this post for Google’s old work-around and here for how to do it in Leopard). Continue reading »
ShareMay 01
So your old laptop is running a bit slowly. It might be that the hard drive is too small and all your hard disk space is all used up. Here’s a few ways to recover some extra Hard Drive space. Basically there are lots of files you can probably get rid of, and here’s now to find them.
You don’t even need to be totally free of space to do this, did you know that you should never fill your hard drive to more than approx 80% capacity or it will slow down performance?
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Apr 15
My friend Dave has just moved across to mac and he tells me that in Microsoft publisher you can use a booklet template to make a booklet. By booklet I mean A4 pages folded in half to make an A5 booklet that you staple in the middle. To do this all the pages need to be re-ordered, for example, page 8 goes near page 1, page 2 near page 7 and so on. Publisher did this automatically.
With Pages in OS X there is no such built in option to do this automatically, but there is a great little program called ‘create booklet’ that will do it for you when you go to print the document.
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