Quit and Discard Windows menu

OS X Lion: Close application and turn off Resume

On 2011/07/31

Apple added the Resume feature to Lion. Enabled applications save their window(s) when closing and open up to the same state when restarted.

What if you don’t want an application to reopen your last document(s)?

Hold down the option/alt key when clicking Quit and it will change to Quit and Discard Windows.

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Mac OS X Lion: It just works, sometimes.

On 2011/07/31

This week I received a forwarded email complaining about a bad experience a user had when she rushed to upgrade her Mac from Snow Leopard to Lion. She wrote a lengthy note about her awful, frustrating encounter with the king of the beasts. After attempting to install Lion OS X 10.7 herself and then spending [...]

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Mac OS X Lion kills AirPort

On 2011/07/27

Now it’s Wi-Fi, which is so much more logical.

Leopard/Snow Leopard

Lion

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Password security — entropy and length

On 2011/07/26

There are two ways for bad guys to get your passwords.

They can ask. This is known as social engineering. It may take many forms, from a simple request for you to disclose this information, to phishing exploits or even to keylogging.

A brute-force attack is the [...]

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Data cake

On 2011/07/22


Image by EpicGraphic

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Mac OS X Lion, v10.7, to upgrade or not to upgrade

On 2011/07/22

Simple answer is you can wait. It is possible that you may never need to upgrade.

Apple released Lion as a $29.99 Mac App Store update, earlier this week. The only other way to get it is to buy a new Mac.

My experience
I bought and downloaded the almost 4GB file on Wednesday, [...]

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Transfer photos to iPad from a Mac

On 2011/07/08

Two methods:

A. iTunes

Sync photos or folders

Connect iPad to Mac. Go to iTunes. Select iPad in the devices list in left column. Select Photos from menu running across top of window. Select iPhoto, or Choose folder… to sync photos. (Don’t know if you have Aperture. I do and it [...]

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My response to an Apple fan

On 2011/07/07

My last post, Apple is the value leader in personal computing, elicited the following response:

 “One point he doesn’t raise is that Apple products generally get zero viruses, require zero tech support, and have longer useful lives, which actually makes them arguably cheaper.”

I didn’t raise those points -

Zero viruses Zero tech support [...]

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