Category Archives: Tips & Tricks

OWC Offers a Definitive Mountain Lion Compatibility List

By Kelly on Jul 26, 2012 • 0 comments

Yesterday afternoon, I wrote a short post about checking to make sure your older Mac will be able to run the latest version of OS X Mountain Lion. In that post, there wasn't ve ..

posted: Hardware, Mountain Lion, Tips & Tricks | tagged: Mac Sales, Mountain Lion, Other World Computing, OWC, Upgrades

Mountain Lion: Make Sure You’re Supported

By Kelly on Jul 25, 2012 • 0 comments

Since the release of Mountain Lion is looming on the horizon for tomorrow afternoon, those of you with older Macs might want to make sure your system is supported before you click ..

posted: Mac App Store, Mac OS, Mountain Lion, Tips & Tricks | tagged: Apple News, Mac OS X, Mountain Lion, News, OS X, Tips

Lion Tip: Restore Finder Status Bar & Path Bar

By Kelly on Sep 23, 2011 • 2 comments

When Apple released Lion, they decided to hide one of the most useful functions of the Finder window. They thought it was a good idea to hide the status and path bars, the bars use ..

posted: How To's, Lion, Tips & Tricks | tagged: Finder Tricks, Lion Tips, Lion Tricks, Mac Lion, Mac OS X Lion, Tips and Tricks

Lion Tip: Change Finder Sidebar Icon Size

By Kelly on Sep 9, 2011 • 2 comments

With the release of Lion, there's been a good handful of annoyances that have made their way into the new operating system. Some of them you can get used to, or at least tolerate. ..

posted: How To's, Lion, Tips & Tricks | tagged: Finder, how tos, Lion Tips, Mail 5, Tips, Tips and Tricks

Lion Tip: How To Delete Chess and Other Default Apps From OS X

By Kelly on Aug 3, 2011 • 17 comments

When I first installed Lion, I was rather surprised by an error that I received when I tried to delete the Chess app from the Applications folder. The error reads: "Chess" can't ..

posted: How To's, Lion, Mac OS, Tips & Tricks | tagged: How To, How to's, Lion Tips, OS X Lion, Tips and Tricks

Lion Tip: Use Option and Shift To Change How To Resize Windows

By Kelly on Aug 1, 2011 • 0 comments

Resizing documents and even Finder windows have been fairly straight forward ever since OS X was first released back in 2001. With the release of Lion however, things have changed. ..

posted: How To's, Lion, Tips & Tricks | tagged: Finder, How To, how tos, Lion Tip, Lion Tips, Tips and Tricks

Lion Tip: Switch Mail To The Classic Layout

By Thomas on Jul 29, 2011 • 0 comments

Not everyone's a huge fan of the new OS X mail layout. It's grown on me, but in case you just really dislike it, Apple have left a way for you to disable it. Open the Mail appli ..

posted: How To's, Lion, Tips & Tricks | tagged: Lion Tip, Lion Tips, Mail

Lion Tip: Change The Mouse Scrolling Direction

By Thomas on Jul 28, 2011 • 9 comments

Apple made a rather irritating change when they introduced Lion. For some reason, they felt the need to change how things had always been in previous versions of OS X and decided t ..

posted: Lion, Mac OS, Tips & Tricks | tagged: how tos, Lion Tips, scrolling, Tips and Tricks

Quick Tip: Remove Shadows From OS X Screenshots

By Kelly on Jul 28, 2011 • 5 comments

When upgrading to a new operating system, you often forget about the little custom tweaks you've made here and there to the previous version of the OS, so when you update, you migh ..

posted: How To's, Tips & Tricks | tagged: How To, Lion, Mac OS, Mac Tips, OS X Tips, Quick Tips, screenshots, Snow Leopard, Terminal

Lion Tip: Make Finder Open New Windows In Your User Folder

By Kelly on Jul 21, 2011 • 8 comments

Apple released Mac OS Lion yesterday, I'm sure you've probably heard by now. There's lot's of excitement going on for the new version of our favorite operating system, but there ..

posted: How To's, Tips & Tricks | tagged: Lion, Lion Tips, OS X Lion, Quick Tips