People gripe about iPad multitasking. Actually, they carp about the lack thereof. Here is a simple iPad trick that lets you background listen to video podcasts — keep working while you listen. Cool stuff.
This tip works with Apple’s oft maligned …

Planning to upgrade from Leopard or Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion? First and foremost, be sure you have enough RAM, at least 4GB. My second Mac tip comes from recent experience — reset your Mac’s SMC (system management controller), a …

When you take a screen cap, by default, OS X outputs that to your desktop or the clipboard in PNG format, which is cool with me. However, if you would prefer you to work with JPG, BMP, TIF or PDF, …

When your relatives have Mac problems, who do they call? The optical drive in my sister’s 2008 iMac died some time ago and she wanted to replace it. Rather, I convinced her that as her next iMac won’t have an …

Here is a very simple little Mac tip that can preview any image, video or just plain file in fullscreen. Select a bunch of images and that fullscreen preview becomes a slideshow. A brilliant little touch baked into Apple’s OS …

Which 2013 Retina MacBook Pro is right for you? It all depends on your use case and what characteristics are most important to you. An interesting, if inexact, measure of value is bang for the buck or raw processor performance …

After reading how this hack works, you will wonder (WTF!) how anyone managed to figure it out and, ultimately, why go to the bother. Here we have a lockscreen hack that requires the user have physical access to the iPhone …

You can teach an old dog new tricks. Or, to borrow and twist a turn of phrase from Harry Truman, ‘The only thing new with the Mac are the Mac tips you don’t know.’ For example, here is keyboard shortcut …

The easiest and fastest way to add specific functionality to your Mac is via the humble and oft forgot OS X Dashboard Widget. From international headline cable news and converting color codes to weather and sport, have a good look …

You might not have noticed, but there is slick feature in OS X Mountain Lion hiding in plain sight. With this Mac tip, you will know where to look for the feature in Apple’s latest desktop operating system that allows …