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iTunes, besides playing music and interacting with your iDevices, can also burn your favorite music on to CD. 1. Click the + on the bottom left of the iTunes window. This will create a new playlist. Change the name of the playlist to what you like. 2. Select MUSIC on the top left under Library [...]

Disk Utility is Mac’s version of Window’s Disk Management tool. It basically helps with formatting, erasing and partitioning drives; verifies them and fixes disk permissions; and is a really easy-to-use CD/DVD image tool. Because Disk Utility can verify and repair disk permissions, it is therefore a troubleshooting tool as well. If you find that your [...]

Since the upgrade of Snow Leopard to 10.6.7,  there seems to be a very annoying bug affecting the Spaces in conjunction with Safari on MacBook Pro. When your Safari is open and you use Spaces to move to another Desktop, when you return to Safari the window is all blurry and broken…it’s like being back [...]

A clear example of  how bad internet security is getting, is the episode of 2.2 million Sony PSN users who had their credit card details stolen by 1 single hacker. For many businesses and consumers, cyber attacks are occurring with far greater frequency these days cannot be greeted with detachment, because they’re striking so close [...]

Using GarageBand, MacBook users can record and edit music and sound files directly on their laptops. If you don’t care too much about the sound quality, you can use the built-in microphone or the one that comes with the headphones of your iPhone if you have one  Move in a quiet, sound-proof area to minimize [...]

Within the Utilities folder (Applications>Utilities) you can find the very useful but scarcely used Activity Monitor. Activity Monitor is akin to Window’s Task Manager. It displays a list of every running application and background process. Alongside that, it will also display their CPU and RAM usages. Using this utility, you can easily identify applications that [...]

If you often suffer from the spinning Beach Ball you are possibly running short of RAM. The Activity Monitor (found in Applications>Utilities) is a great tool to judge if your Mac has sufficient memory in order to perform efficiently. When the physical memory (or more commonly known as RAM — Random-access Memory) is full and [...]