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9 Nov 2009Learn how to use Back to My Mac to remotely configure or access files stored on a Time Capsule or 802.11n-based AirPort Extreme with a connected hard drive; or to remotely configure an AirPort Express (802.11n-based). Requirements for using Time Capsule or an 802.11n-based AirPort base station with Back to My Mac Time Capsule, AirPort Express (802.11n), or AirPort Extreme (802.11n) A compatible, external USB hard drive* connected to AirPort Extreme (802.11n) for remote file access. (An external USB drive may optionally be used with Time Capsule for additional storage.) AirPort Firmware 7.4.2 or later. AirPort Utility 5.4.1 or later
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22 Sep 2009Learn how you can share your Mac with other people by setting up different accounts. This article applies to Mac OS X v10.5 and later. Several people can share a single Mac by logging in to their individual user accounts. Each user can select their own customized settings, such as Safari bookmarks and Finder view preferences, and access their own private storage space, called a Home folder. You can create as many user accounts as you want.
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9 Jul 2009Filed under: Software The Missing Sync line of software from Mark/Space has been around long enough that just about every handheld operating system made can now sync data with a Mac. As a result, it’s not surprising that Mark/Space has announced Missing Sync for Palm Pre . The $39.95 Mac application (also available in a two-license Business Edition for US$89.95) starts with the usual tasks of syncing contacts and calendars whenever you’re in Wi-Fi range of your Mac, but then adds syncing of music, videos, podcasts, and photos to the mix.
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3 Jul 2009Filed under: Software , Freeware , Friday Favorite When I consider what should really be system software, I always think of three little beauties that belong on every Mac: Alarm Clock 2 , AppTrap and TimeMachineEditor . They are all one-trick-ponies, t ake up little space, are free for the downloading, and Apple should buy them up for Snow Leopard. Alarm Clock 2 , currently up to version 2.4.5, sits nicely on your menubar ready to awaken you with your favorite song, or remind you that your dinner is ready to come out of the oven. You can set an alarm to use any song from your iTunes library, or if no song is chosen, it will just beep at you. It has an Easy Wake option that slowly brings up the volume of your chosen song over an adjustable period of up to two minutes
You may sometimes wonder how to optimize your hard drive, or how to format your external hard disks? Or maybe you want to copy a DVD and save it in your computer as a disk image, or simply burn a disk image on a CD or DVD. Maybe you just want to create an encrypted [...]
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26 Mar 2007Have you ever wondered what is going on in the back end of your computer? Or maybe time to time your system becomes slow or feels heavy and you wonder why? Here the first step you need to take in order to check the performance of your mac.
Launch the Activity Monitor application located under [...]
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15 Mar 2007On Mac OS X, there is a Utilities directory located in your Applications folder that contains a set of applications and tools which use range from performance monitoring to file transfer and management.
The following video covers some of the most useful utility applications that you will find in your /Applications/Utilities folder. We will [...]
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