Reviews
Transit is Here: Mac-Forums Offers Some Observations on the New Apple Maps
I’ll be blunt from the start – I’ve got an odd love/hate relationships for Apple Maps. It’s tightly integrated with
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Digital Lifestyle
The Summer Server Project – Part 3: It lives…and serves.
….it lives. After some time hacking away at the code and ultimately learning a few things about Python, I’ve got
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Digital Lifestyle
The Summer Server Project – Part Two: VM Setup
Recap and Introduction In the last article, I introduced what I plan to be a summer long project – writing
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Networking
The Summer Server Project – Part One: Introduction
Introduction Let me start this article with a not so profound claim: I know nothing about networking. Well, nothing might
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These Permissions Are Not The Repairs You’re Looking For – A Critical Look at Permissions in OS X
So, your Mac is acting up. Indeed, a Mac is no more impervious to Murphy’s Law than a non-Mac PC
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Reviews
Mac-Forums Investigates MacKeeper
Update (July 27, 2013): Grammar/spelling errors corrected and a short section about Mac-Forums’ relationship to the product was added. Introduction
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Mac-Forums Looks at the Other…Other Mobile Platform
Introduction There’s no secret when it comes to my tendency to try the esoteric operating platforms. Why? The simple answer
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Advanced – Scripting a Daily Wallpaper
If you’re anything like me, you get bored of your desktop wallpaper easily. Sure, you could have your wallpaper rotate
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A Look at Word Processing for the iPad: Pages and Word
I write…a lot. As a graduate student, it is my “trade,” that activity that occupies the majority of my time
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Mac-Forums
Weekly Roundup: April 1 – 7
Here’s the weekly roundup of the more popular discussions around Mac-Forums for the week of April 1st. Blog Posts Clamshell
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Clamshell Mode Performance Issues: A Myth?
Background A while back, I remember hearing a theory floating around that running a Mac in clamshell mode forced OS
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iOS and The State of Innovation
Quite a few people have been commenting on an ostensible lack of innovation on the part of Apple when it
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Mac OS X
The Mysterious File:/// Bug
Recently, there has been a rather silent but important story floating around about an odd bug built into Cocoa (OS
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Software
Flash v. JavaScript: Is One Really Better Than The Other?
Introduction A quick search of the forums will reveal a particular unabashed bias towards technologies that leverage anything but Adobe’s
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Review: CoolerMaster Gear
Jas Pro – Stretch Using a laptop flat on your desk isn’t the best for your posture, unless you have
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IMAP Email and Notifications: How-To
Introduction In this article we’ll look at how you can use Mountain Lion’s notification system to notify you of unread
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OS X Mountain Lion: The Mac-Forums Guide
Contents Preamble Upgrading through the Up-to-Date Program Prepping for the Upgrade How to Create Your Own OS X Mountain Lion
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While the MF ML Guide is Under Construction…
As we continue our work on the official Mac-Forums Mountain Lion guide, we provide the following set of links to
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Putting Your Apps on a Diet
Given that hard drive size is rarely a concern anymore, developers seem to make an assumption that space is no
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Mac OS X
Learning the Command Line Part Two: Navigating and Manipulating Files
To view the first part, take a look here. Recap In the last article, we learned how to set up
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Simple Print Server using Automator and Dropbox
By the end of this article, you will have set up a folder action for a Dropbox folder such that anything added to it will be printed. With this set up, you’ll be able to print documents from anywhere in the world and/or print content from mobile devices that are supported by Dropbox.
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Playing YouTube Videos in VLC
For this week’s quick tip, we’ll explore one of VLC’s more “hidden” features. More specifically, you’ll learn how to play YouTube videos in said media player. This is quite simple and involves only a few steps.
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How tos
Learning the Command Line (Part One)
You may have stumbled across the Terminal application, having little knowledge of what it was for, you ignored it. I don’t blame you – for 98% of Mac users, it is of little value. Or is it?
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