Dr. Mac

Favorite Mac Books

Favorite Mac Books

I have been a voracious reader ever since I was a young boy. And everyone knew a book was a gift I’d treasure. While it’s not the first thing you might think of, a technical book makes a perfect gift for the Mac user, and there have...

 

Do the Hover-Scroll

Do the Hover-Scroll

Today’s tip is one I use a lot but have been taking for granted. Someone saw me do it the other day and commented that it was a cool feature and that they had never seen it before. I call it hover-scrolling. The bad news is that it requires...

 

The Option Key is your Friend!

The Option Key is your Friend!

Many of you know this already but it’s worth repeating–open any menu then press and hold the Option key. Do it in the Finder’s File menu and you’ll see the Open With command transform into the immensely useful Always...

 

Type Less and Say More with TypeIt4Me

Type Less and Say More with TypeIt4Me

Yes, it’s another freely distributed software Friday and today’s offering is a gem. If you hate typing the same phrases over and over, or often find yourself copying and pasting the same paragraph or sentence over and over, you’re...

 

Hiding Files from Friends and Enemies

Hiding Files from Friends and Enemies

So yesterday’s tip was how to hide text snippets from prying eyes… but what if you want to hide an entire file or folder from prying eyes? One simple trick I’ve used to keep casual users out of folders I don’t want them...

 

How not to lose files

How not to lose files

I’ve seen many users whose Desktops are covered with dozens (if not hundreds) of files and folders. I’ve seen many users whose Desktops have so much crud on them you can’t distinguish what their beautiful Desktop picture is....

 

Kiss Chris For This

Kiss Chris For This

Pre-Jag it was easy to have a Trash can in your Finder toolbar. In those days, all you had to do was drag the proxy icon — the little tiny Trash icon in the titlebar of the open Trash window — onto the Toolbar of any Finder window....

 

Broadband? Browse Different

Broadband? Browse Different

I have a cable modem connection that’s always on and always fast (thanks to RoadRunner). And, because it’s there, I like to use as much of that delicious bandwidth as I can when I browse the Web. So today’s tip has to do with...

 

Burn one today – save money and heartache

Burn one today – save money and heartache

A friend called the other day to ask me about disk recovery specialists; I told him to call DriveSavers and that it wouldn’t be cheap. I told him he should know better and that recovering his disk was gonna cost him much more than a fullly-automated,...