I periodically check my User Login Items to see if any recently installed applications have added themselves to my system startup. Login Items can greatly increase the amount of time it takes to boot your Mac. We all have applications we want to open every time we boot. The problem with shoving too many apps [...]
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How to Make a Bootable Mountain Lion Install Disk
Apple isn’t currently offering a USB or optical disc installer for Mountain Lion. The super simple “Lion Diskmaker” app has been updated to allow you to make a bootable USB or SD Card installer on a 8GB piece of media. The following steps will help you create your own Mountain Lion disk to use as [...]
Duplicate/Missing/Not Syncing – Safari Bookmark Madness
Blame it on iCloud! Seriously- blame it on iCloud. There have been many many many reports of bookmark madness occurring after users have edited, rearranged and/or deleted bookmarks from Safari. The following directions should help you get your bookmarks back in order. Warning! Please follow the directions below closely and make a backup before you [...]
How to Replace Low Bit Rate Tracks with Higher Quality Tracks From itunes Match
iTunes Match gives subscribers access to 256kbps AAC versions of their audio files, even if they are at lower bitrates and regardless of – ahem – origin. To replace all of your lower-bitrate songs in your library with higher-quality files from iTunes Match, use a Smart Playlist to replaces only those songs that are lower [...]
Sync Snow Leopard iCal Events with iCloud
iCloud has some exciting new features that will inevitably tempt you into upgrading. Perhaps you jumped out there and upgraded to iCloud without understanding what you were about to loose from Mobile Me. If you have upgraded to iCloud but still have a Snow Leopard system around you can still sync your iCal data. To [...]
Is Your Dropbox Software Up to Date?
Is Your Dropbox Software Up to Date? Many people use Dropbox to share and synchronize files, but few people know when updates to the program are available. The application itself has no updater, and no notification when new versions are released. So, in order to find out if you need a new version, you need [...]
Sully’s Top 5 OS X 10.7 Lion Tweaks
Disable “Natural Scrolling” – Wow, this might be a good idea on the iPhone or iPad but seriously you expect me to use this on my 27″ iMac. Let’s turn this setting off first! 1) Open System Preferences and select the “Mouse or Trackpad” icon under the Hardware section 2) Near the top make sure [...]
Exporting Microsoft Outlook Contacts to Apple Address Book
It is ridiculously difficult to export contacts from Microsoft Outlook to Apple Address Book. Hopefully this quick how-to will help you out. There might be some automated programs out there doing this but this FREE process isn’t that painful. Note/Warning: I would recommend backing up your current Mac Address Book by copying your (~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook) [...]
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