- Put Your Home to Work With Easy Mac Automation
- Dec 16, 2005
- Although it's not exactly as pictured in the '50s cartoon shorts, the intelligent home of the future can be yours today (minus the goofy bacon smasher, of course). Using relatively inexpensive home automation hardware and basic electrical knowledge, Emory Christensen shows you can transform your home from a pile of lumber and drywall into your personal servant.
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- Put Your Mac to Work: Top Automation Tips
- Jun 29, 2007
- Computers are good at doing the repetitive tasks that humans find annoying. Neale Monks looks at some of the best ways to automate your Mac.
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- QuickDraw Basics
- Dec 14, 2001
- Topics such as the graphics grid and setting drawing parameters are covered in this article on QuickDraw basics by expert author Dan Parks Sydow.
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- Recording and Editing Software Instruments in GarageBand
- Aug 6, 2014
- In this lesson from Apple Pro Training Series: GarageBand, you’ll learn recording and editing techniques for building music with Software Instrument regions. You’ll also learn how to change instruments for Software Instrument tracks in the timeline.
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- Remote Control: Screen Sharing in Leopard
- Jan 18, 2008
- One of Leopard's many new features is screen sharing. Screen sharing makes it easy to control a remote Mac on a local network, over the Internet, and even through iChat. Ryan Faas shows you how easy it is to use this feature as well as what precautions you should take to help secure your Mac when you are using it.
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- Remote Mac Management on a Budget: Low-Cost Alternatives to Apple Remote Desktop
- Mar 9, 2007
- Observing and controlling computers remotely is a great tool for systems administrators, help desk staff, teachers, and even home users. Apple Remote Desktop gives you that power and more, but if you only want the most basic remote observation and control features, there are low-cost and free options for Mac OS X. Ryan Faas gives you the best alternatives.
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- Repairing Permissions in Mac OS X Using Unix Commands: Part I
- May 27, 2005
- In this first article in a series on permissions, Larry Loeb looks at ways files work in Mac OS X, focusing on file permissions. This time around, you'll use the Terminal utility to manipulate these permissions directly.
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- Replacing the MobileMe Features Lost in iCloud
- Sep 28, 2011
- Apple's upcoming iCloud service will replace MobileMe with new features, but some staple features are getting left behind. There are some excellent alternatives for existing MobileMe users, and Mac expert Ryan Faas walks you through the choices
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- Robin Williams Cool Mac Apps: iMovie
- Oct 6, 2005
- There isn't much more boring than an unedited movie, and home movies are no exception. This chapter will help you learn to edit your home movies with iMovie HD.
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- Robin Williams Explains How to Use TextEdit
- Jan 11, 2008
- Beloved author Robin Williams tells you everything you need to know to get the most out of TextEdit, the free word processing application that ships with your Mac.
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- Robin Williams Introduces You to Mac OS X
- Oct 21, 2005
- Tiger is the latest and greatest version of the Mac OS X operating system. But even though it's the latest and greatest, it's still Mac OS X. In this chapter, you'll become familiar with Mac basics as beloved author Robin Williams shows you how to use the Finder, Dock, contextual menus, and keyboard shortcuts.
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- Robin Williams’s Guide to the Most Overlooked New Leopard Features
- Oct 27, 2007
- Best-selling Mac author Robin Williams digs beneath the surface to reveal the top 10 most overlooked features in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
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- Run Windows on Your Mac Using Parallels
- Mar 21, 2008
- Now you no longer have to choose between Mac OS X and Windows! Computer columnist Dwight Silverman shows you how to run Windows on your Mac using Parallels.
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- Running Automator Workflows from Mail Rules
- Jun 9, 2009
- Automator doesn't offer a way to save workflows as plug-ins for Mail. But you can add this capability yourself with the help of a Mail rule, some AppleScript, and an Automator workflow. Just follow these instructions from Ben Waldie.
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- Save Yourself (And Your Data) with .Mac Backup
- Jan 6, 2006
- Maria Langer learned the value of backups the hard way. Follow her example (the good example, not the bad one) and use .Mac Backup to protect the essential information you're probably not backing up right now.
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- Securing Mac OS X
- Oct 15, 2004
- Macs are known for their superb security, but maintaining this security does take some work. In this article, you'll learn the strategies to keep the Macs you support secure.
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- Securing Mac OS X
- Jan 25, 2002
- Mac OS X uses the Unix model of service security, simplified a bit for the rest of us. The four key Mac OS X services that you can make available through the Sharing System Preferences window are File Sharing, Web Sharing, Remote Login, and FTP.
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- Selecting a Secure Enterprise OS: Don't Make the First Step the Wrong Step
- Oct 28, 2005
- It's pretty common to focus on functionality when choosing an operating system, particularly for businesses with specific technical needs. But Bruce Potter warns that making your selection without paying due attention to the operating system's security issues may hit hard in the long term.
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- Setting Up Macintosh & Windows File Sharing
- Jul 29, 2005
- Although she's a Mac fanatic, Maria Langer can't completely abandon PCs; after all, she writes about them. So that she can capture screenshots or create files on her PC and transfer them to her Mac (or vice versa) she enables file sharing in both directions. Follow her straightforward instructions in this article to make all of your computers play nicely.
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- Setting Up Your Mac to Use a Smartphone's Internet Connection
- Feb 1, 2008
- Flying clients around in her helicopter sometimes takes Maria Langer off the grid. A bit of experimenting helped her (and now maybe you!) to get connected again, using a smartphone with a Bluetooth interface, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, and a dial-up networking service.
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