One of the best ways to protect yourself on your Mac is to download and install patches as Apple and app developers release them. Rather than doing it yourself, here’s how to have it happen automatically in the background. You might want to turn this feature off when you go on a limited data service […]
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Checklist to Limit Data Use on Travel (Updated)
Problem to be solved: I have a shared data plan between my Mifi and my iPad. Under normal use at home I never go over my 4GB plan (not even close) but about 2 days into a vacation I get a 75% usage warning. I had Katie Floyd of the Mac Power Users Podcast on […]
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ClamXav can be downloaded directly or through the Mac App Store. The Mac App Store version does not contain the Sentry tool that allows constant scanning for changes by folder, so this tutorial is for the download version which you can get at http://www.clamxav.com/. Note: ClamXav used to be free but as of June 2015 […]
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Before the advent of the Force Touch trackpad on the 12" Macbook (and the new 13" Retina MacBook Pro), you could enable a gesture entitled Three Finger Drag. With that gesture, using three fingers you could touch the top bar of any window in OS X and drag the window around. I personally prefer it […]
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Google keeps Flash up to date in their Chrome browser so it’s a less risky place to allow Flash content. However you can be bothered by Flash playing against your will with Chrome. Instead of getting a plugin to disable Flash you can set it to only play when you choose to click on it […]
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This tutorial explains how to use Rogue Amoeba’s Audio Hijack 3 (http://rogueamoeba.com) to capture both sides of a Skype call to separate channels and also include high quality sound coming from an iOS device plugged into a Mac. This technique can be used to capture music, podcasts, games, VoiceOver, any sound coming from an iOS […]
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1. Problem to be solved Flat 2D graphs are boring, 3D graphs are hard to read. 2D graphs made to look 3D are the best of both worlds. We’re going to do is add a 3-color linear gradient to the bars and then if desired throw in a background texture to add a little more […]
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There isn’t a lot of malware out there for the Mac even now, but there are still some nasty things out there attacking the platform. A while back, Bart convinced me that it was time to start using an anti-virus and he promised he had a very light, non-intrusive solution for us: ClamXav from clamxav.com. […]
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Have you ever wished you could play content living on your iOS device over on your Mac? Maybe you have music on your phone or a podcast or even a video you’d like to play through the better speakers on your Mac. If you’re running Yosemite, you have a new version of QuickTime that will […]
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These quick steps will walk you through how to export your LastPass vault to a Comma Separated Value (CSV) file which can then be imported into other tools such as 1Password (or even Excel). The script and instructions that come with it are for both Windows and Mac, but I will only be showing you […]
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