Whither the Personal Computer?

On 2011/08/24

August 2011 has been a big news month in the tech world. First Google announces it is acquiring Motorola and now Hewlett Packard (HP) announces it is disposing of its PC business and shutting down its TouchPad tablet business, too. These two corporate moves have significant implications for large technology companies like Microsoft, Dell, Lenovo, [...]

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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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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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Apple’s Post PC Era explained

On 2011/06/17

Steve Jobs says, “We are living in the post PC era.”

What does that mean? Is he correct? (Yes.) Do you need to do anything?

I will present Apple’s Post PC Era at the next meeting of the Connecticut PC Users Group (CTPC).

My talk will be about:

Lion [...]

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Fix your Mac’s desktop with HazeOver

On 2011/06/13

Microsoft Windows makes it quite simple to know which window has the focus. That Window’s title bar is brighter than all the others. The Mac OS X desktop doesn’t have this feature so it is easy to think you are working in one window when you are not.

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Improve Mac OS X Finder, put full path in title bar

On 2011/03/22

I don’t remember where I first learned this simple hack. It is one of the more useful changes to Finder you can make. I use it on all my Macs. I also put this on my clients’ Macs.

You can display the full path in the Finder title bar rather than have only the folder [...]

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Legal file names

On 2011/03/07

A friend recently asked,

Since when is it possible to use $ and ! characters in file names?

I just noticed an exclamation point in the name of a file I had ripped from a CD a few weeks age.  I don’t recall seeing it there before…

I hadn’t thought about this topic for many [...]

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Xmenu for Mac OS X is a great free Finder enhancement

On 2011/01/24

If you use a Mac (OS X 10.5 or higher – Leopard or Snow Leopard) you should try Xmenu. It is a free add-on from DEVONtechnologies.

Xmenu places links to key Finder folders on the Apple Menu bar. Once installed and started, you won’t need to [...]

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