We have already written about how to add Facebook chat in iChat on Mac, and now we are going to tell you how to add Facebook chat to Firefox and in this way it became possible for users to be in touch with their Facebook friends all the time while they are working over internet [...]
Some time you need to capture screenshot in Mac and want to save in specific file format. On Mac OS X the default file format for screen shot is PNG but if you want that your Mac must save screen shots in any other file format for example as JPG, GIF or PDF then just [...]
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Although you may use the default calculator on Mac but for quick calculations Spotlight also includes calculator feature where users can directly enter math quires to get faster calculated results. Follow the simple instructions written below to know that how Spotlight works as calculator.
You can use Spotlight on Mac to find something fast and quickly but if you want to restrict Spotlight from searching to some specific location or folders because of any personal reason or to make your Mac secure while others are using it then follow the method written below to do so.
This method will limit [...]
On Mac if you want to delete the files from Trash then just Cmd + click on it and select the option Empty Trash and it asks to confirm either you want to Empty Trash or not.
The process to empty the Trash is simple and you think that in this way your Trash is securely [...]
We have also written how to add Facebook Chat in Firefox, and you may use iChat on Mac to send messages to your Facebook friends instead of signing in to Facebook web page. Here we are writing the method to let you know that how you can integrate your Facebook vanity URL with iChat.
When you create partition on Intel based Mac through BootCamp to install Windows OS then this newly installed operating system became the default OS and then whenever you start Mac it boots from Windows OS. But if you want to make the Mac OS X as default on your Mac system then just follow the [...]
If you want to run Windows operating system on your Mac besides Mac OS X then Boot Camp application makes this task easy for you. Boot Camp application is included in Mac OS X and helps to create a partition to install Windows operating system on Intel based Mac systems.
Here we tell you the method [...]
If you want to burn .DMG, .ISO or any other files to optical medium then Disk Utility, the built-in utility of Mac OS X could be used to do that and in this way there is no need to put extra effort to install any other third party application to burn ISO or DMG files.
See [...]
The purpose to enable this option is to view the contents of folders quickly without opening them. You can View multipages Microsoft Office documents and PDF files, watch videos, view pictures slideshow and more with Quick look option. On Mac OS X it is very easy to enable Quicklook.
Some time people use their Mac computer for specific purpose and they want some required applications to run and ready at start-up automatically or even you don’t use Mac for specific work you may need to run some programs on start-up like Mail, Chat, Music and more… so Mac OS X gives you an option [...]
To remember passwords is quite a challenging and some times difficult task, so Mac has an embedded utility called Keychain Access. Keychain Access can store all almost all passwords that are used in Mac.
For example, when you login to your web browser and click on option to remember my password then that password stored in [...]
Root user in Mac OS X is special user, different than administrator and has high privileges and rights to make any type of change to the system. If you forgot the password of Root user, see how to recover Root password using different methods in Mac OS X.
See also:
How to Enable/Disable Root User on Mac
When you are working in silent office environment or in a study room then you may want to turn off startup sound of Mac. So, here we are writing the process which you may follow to control or completely turn off startup sound.
To quit a stuck application you may use Force Quit option on Mac but sometimes the stuck application does not accept Force Quit. So, in that case you may kill the application by using commands on Terminal.
In case you stuck with an application in Mac OS X then definitely you want to get release from it as soon as possible without wasting your time. So, Mac OS X gives Force Quit option which allows to quit any running application quickly.
Their are different methods to apply Force Quit for an application which [...]
If you want to take screenshots of any movie or application with a specific time interval on Mac OS X then manually it is a little bit difficult task to manage. So, here we are writing a simple method which let you allow to take unlimited screenshots automatically and you may also set time interval [...]
We wrote before the method to take the screenshot on Mac through keyboard shortcut keys and today we are sharing an other method to take screenshot on Mac through terminal command.
Terminal allows to capture screenshot after a specific time interval and you can also save screenshot in some other file formats as JPG, TIFF etc [...]
Users who wish to run Google’s Chrome OS on their Mac OS X and do not know how to do this for them we are writing the following instruction set. So, follow the steps written below to run and experience the Google Chromium operating system on Mac OS X.
See also:
How to Run Chrome [...]
Got an iPhone or iPod Touch? then you must know that in order to download and install apps from App Store, as you should know, you’ll need to register an iTunes App Store account and creation of this account requires Credit Card or some other payment options.
What if you do not have a credit card [...]
In Unix style operating systems Root is a special user, different than administrator who has high privileges and rights to make any type of change to the system. The Root user doesn’t appear in user accounts on Mac. By default Root user is disabled and this is recommended that after conducting the required change [...]
Whenever you take the screen shots on Mac it directly save those on desktop. This would be better if you specify a folder on Mac to automatically save the screen shots because in that way it’ll be easy to organize them. So, if you want to change the default storage location, which is the [...]
PDF (portable document file) is one of the most commonly use file format. Here, we write the method to create PDF file from different Text editors or office automation applications.
If you want to allow others to use your Mac system then this will be a nice approach to create separate accounts for them. By doing this you secure your computer because other accounts could be created with limited authorities and rights, so in that way users of those accounts may be restricted to [...]
Text documents could be created for different useful purposes as for audio notes, tutorials, lectures, etc…..
Mac has a very powerful text to speech engine that could be accessed easily through the Terminal command line. So, here we tell you about a Terminal command “Say”, by which you can easily create audio from text file. You’ll [...]