As the weather turns cold, the days grow short, and white flakes fall from the sky, we know winter is upon us. You know about winterizing your car, insulating your home, preparing your yard, keeping the pets inside and bundling yourself up. Did you think of your Mac?
Surprisingly enough, there’s a few things about the wintertime and your Mac to be aware of:
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You’ve probably attended one of these presentations before. The speaker is busy talking about quarterly projections, a new product or the slide currently being shown. After 2 minutes, the screen goes dark. Or worse, a slideshow of the 4 month old in the bathtub.
With presentations, there’s so many things to worry about: Did I wear the right outfit? Will I remember my speech? Am I forgetting something? What if I stutter, stumble or otherwise confuse my words?
With your concerns elsewhere, its almost inevitable that you’re going to forget one huge and potentially embarrassing detail during your presentation – Keeping your computer from going to sleep..
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At some point in time, after you’ve been using a Mac for a while, you’re going to discover some of OS X’s annoying tendencies. I’m not talking about the spinning beach ball or the scary kernal panic screen. Too much of those indicates a problem with your system and it needs to be looked at.
These are the normal little things about OS X that just get in the way, bothering you enough to wish they weren’t there. Now I’ll show you how to get rid of them:
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Does the world need another browser? Isn’t Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari and Opera enough? Does Google have what it takes to make a functional browser that’s enough to compete with the likes of Firefox, Safari and IE? Or is there a more ulterior motive: What better way to track web experience than with a Google browser (and now Google DNS service) reporting back to the mothership..
Being the curious type, after hearing of the OS X version going into Beta, I decided to have a look at Google Chrome for OS X. Here’s some of my first impressions and experiences with it:
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iCal, Sunbird, and Lightning are great applications but they only work locally on your computer. It’s not anyone’s fault – its just the way they were designed. Google Calendar makes for a great back-end when you want to sync calendars across multiple devices, like iCal at home, your Blackberry / iPhone, and your work computer(s).
But what do you do if you’ve been using a calendaring system like iCal or Sunbird/Lightning for years, locally, on one Mac?
Recently, a reader asked such a question on a previous article and here is how you do it.
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