Portable USB Flash drives are one of my favorite peripherals of the past few years. Before USB drives, you’d have to burn files on a CD if you wanted to transfer them to a friend or co-worker. What a waste so that they can look at a 20mb file once and never again.
Now, with sizes ranging into 8gb for about $20, USB Flash drives are more economical than DVDs for moving files around. As wonderful as flash drives are, there are a few catches you need to be aware of with OS X.
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In the past eight years that OS X has been around, there’s been a few pieces of Malware written but nothing on the scale that Windows users face. This doesn’t mean Macs are impenetrable as many may think. To counteract Malware, there are several Antivirus programs. While it’s a no-brainer that Windows needs them, what about the Mac users? Do OS X users need Antivirus?
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Copy and Paste is probably the one function on a computer that saves the most time. Just ask anyone who had an iPhone or iPod Touch before version 3.0 how much they’d wish it had Copy / Paste.
Now, how can Copy / Paste become even better? With multiple clipboards so you can choose what to Paste! There’s a few of these applications out there, most with a price tag. Here’s how to get this functionality for free.
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Nobody’s perfect, although we’d like to think we are. We’d also like to think that we treat our Macs better than anyone else. Chalk it up to ignorance, stubbornness of just being uninformed, here are eleven dumb things we’re all guilty of doing to our Macs at one point or another and why we shouldn’t.
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A while back, I wrote an article on how to sync Google Calendar with Thunderbird. Since that article was written, Google has drastically improved it’s syncing ability making things extremely easy. You can now sync Google Calendar with Thunderbird/Lightning, Sunbird, iCal, iPhone/iPod Touch Calendar, and anything else that supports the CalDAV standard. Here’s how you do it:
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