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Moving from iPhone to Android whilst using a Mac
Should you move away from iPhone and onto Android? There are a number of things to consider, mainly keeping everything in sync between your Mac, your Android phone, your iPad and whatever else you have Here’s a useful guide on what to do and how to keep things in sync.
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Testing websites in IE6, IE7 and IE8 on a Mac
When designing and developing websites it’s important to test in all of the most popular browsers. Those are currently Firefox, IE6, IE7, IE8, Google Chrome and Safari. For some reason PC users don’t seem to update their version of Internet Explorer so as each new version arrives on the scene we then have to develop for those very old browsers. Anyway, here’s how to do it… Read more…
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10 FREE Mac apps you can’t do without
I won’t list the obvious such as Illustrator, Photoshop, MS Word etc but more those little apps that you’ve probably not even heard of. There’s absolutely loads of them – yes, even for us Mac users – but which ones should you download. I’ve chosen 10 here that I use on a daily basis – I’m sure there’s others out there and I’d be interested to know what little hidden gems you know of that you think other should use… Remember it has to be FREE! Read more…
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Remove attachments from Apple Mail emails
Attachments can be pretty big and more often than not once you receive an email you’ll have saved that attachment to your Mac for safekeeping. Before you know it you’ll have hundreds of megabytes of emails on your Mac and wondering how on earth to make them smaller. Read more… -
Create an HTML Signature for Apple Mail
Apple Mail is great, such a pleasant email client to use for work and play but there’s one frustrating thing and that’s that there’s no obvious way of creating an html signature. So you’re stuck with just having text. Read more…
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Web Browsing Tips #3: Keyboard Shortcuts
Use keyboard shortcuts to speed up your browsing experience. They sometimes take a little while to get the hang of, and more importantly remember, but when you’ve learned a few then this really will help quicken your surfing time. Here’s a few to get you started but if you take a look in the menu of your chosen browser you’ll see the shortcut alongside the description – keep learning them.
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Web Browsing Tips #2: Tabbed Windows
Gone are the days when you ended up having a gazillion windows open all at once. The best way to view sites is by using tabbed windows. This then creates a new window within the current window and allow you to flick between sites rather than hunting around all those open windows. Shortcuts; Mac: Command (Apple) + T, PC: Ctrl + T.
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Web Browsing Tips #1: Find in Page
The Internet can be a very big and daunting place for all of us. It’s unknown the exact amount of web pages that exists on the World Wide Web but it’s well over a billion, so being able to find exactly what you’re after can be a tricky task. Over the coming weeks we’ll try to demystify and help you become a superb surfer. The tips will be in no particular order so keep checking back or better still subscribe to the email updates (enter your email address on the right) to receive the tips direct to your email inbox. Read more…
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Remove the shadow from Mac Screen Grabs
When you take a screenshot in OSX Leopard (Apple Shift 4 or Apple Shift 4 SpaceBar) you get a large outer shadow appear when you then view that image in Preview or Photoshop. It can be really useful to remove that shadow when you want to take screengrabs for presentations. Read more…
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10 Top Widgets for your Mac
There’s literally thousands of widgets available for your Mac, but before you know it you’ll have cluttered up yet another part of your Mac with things you don’t really need and very rarely use. So which ones are actually useful and worth the download? Here’s 10, in no particular order, that I use. Read more…