f.lux is a computer program that adjusts the display’s color temperature according to the location and time of day. The program was designed to reduce eye strain during night time and allow a user to sleep better after computer usage. http://justgetflux.com/
I don’t trust online password storage, and I don’t want to carry around a notepad of passwords. Quick Password Manager is a great solution. Quick Password Manager Quick Password Manager (iTunes)
Launch “System Preferences” Click on “Security & Privacy” (“General” tab) Check “Require password after sleep or screen saver begins” Exit out of System Preferences
Carbon Copy Cloner is a great application for backup, cloning, and synchronization.
By default, the Mac OS X Spotlight folder searches the entire Macintosh hard drive. This setting can be changed within the Finder preferences. In the Finder menu, select Preferences.
YemuZip is an easy-to-use application for making zip files. Just drag, drop, name your zip file and you’re done. Mac OS X’s built-in compress function makes zip files that contains Mac specific information that, when extracted on a PC, looks like garbage. YemuZip lets you choose between a PC-friendly format and a Mac format that preserve […]
Send any audio from your Mac to AirPort Express units, Apple TVs, iPhones and iPods Touch, and even other Macs and PCs, all in sync! Use Airfoil with web-based audio like Pandora, music services like Spotify, Rdio, MOG, and WiMP, or any other audio playing on your computer. Airfoil for Mac gives you your audio […]
It’s finally here! Don’t get me wrong – I love Apple. But, I do think that they dropped the ball with Apple Maps. Google Maps for iPhone
VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols. This is hands-down the best solution for watching video on any platform – Mac, PC, Linux. It can even play Flash files (e.g. YouTube) and DVD files. […]
FireWire target disk mode allows a Macintosh computer with a FireWire port (the target computer) to be used as an external hard disk connected to another computer (the host). Once a target computer is started up as a FireWire hard disk and is available to the host computer, you can copy files to or from […]