Print from a Mac to a Shared Vista Printer Printing is such a common everyday chore that you really don’t even think about it. You click on File – Print and you’re off. If you use a PC and have a printer attached, printing is easy. On the same token, if you connect a printer [...]
Hard Drive Space Getting Low? So you’ve been using your Mac for a while now since you got it about a year-and-a-half, maybe two years, maybe longer? How’s your disk space looking? Yes, I’m talking about you’re hard drive a/k/a your hard disk or local drive. My Mac started with 320GB. Over time when you [...]
Backup Your System Before Applying Update Be sure to back up your system before applying any new updates. You can use Time Machine to do so. As you know, if there are any problems with the update, you can revert to the backup. General Rule of Thumb Every Mac does not have the same number [...]
Why Do I Need To Know My IP Address? If you’re doing home networking, you may need to know your IP address. For e.g. if you want to exchange files between your Mac and windows PCs, you will need to know your Mac IP address. It’s good to know the command to find out your [...]
SAVE A FILE TO A SPECIFIC DIRECTORY – THE EASY WAY If you create a document say in Textedit and then save it. It’s usually straight-forward to save it. You click on File – Save As – type in the filename then save the file. But did you ever notice that the default in the [...]
Hunt And Kill A Process Have you ever run an application for a while and then it just freezes? So then you try to end the process. You try to do a Command-Q; it doesn’t work. Then you try clicking on the application-name on the menu bar to do a “Quit <application name>”; it doesn’t [...]
Apple OS X v10.6.3 Released If you haven’t heard, Apple released an update to their Snow Leopard OS X v10.6.3 on Monday, March 29.
I created a bootable external harddisk with Leopard as the operating system; i.e. Mac OS v10.5.6. I got inspired by a video by MacWorld.com’s Roman Loyola (http://www.macworld.com/article/141401/2009/06/mwvodcast114.html) that described how to create a bootable disk using a 16GB Secured Digital High Capacity flash card. The video gives you the steps to create the bootable flash [...]