It’s getting closer to the end of my experiment and what can I say besides I’m still on a Mac and I’m very happy with it. There are a lot of positives I’ve found about OS X and the MacBook Pro that out weight some of the negatives of not having a dominate Windows [...]
I just bought an external hard drive and I have some personal files that I would like to put on the drive. Is there anyway to password protect the entire drive so that I am the only one that can access the drive, even if I move the drive around from a computer to another [...]
Is there a way to play games requiring windows 95 on windows XP?
There are still tons of old games that are still better then the new garbage that comes out today. While I still think the progression of games for the computer has come a long way from Pong to Far Cry or Counter Strike [...]
What about the accessories…
I completely forgot about a huge part of buying any computer or any other major electronic device; the accessories that come with it, and the ones you can buy.
The goodies that came with the Mac were just bare essentials. They packaged the powerhouse laptop with a power adapter, power cord extender, screen [...]
Windows 7 runs hot on a Mac too?! I installed Windows 7 on my boot camp partition on my MacBook Pro and I was blown away when I found out that Windows runs hot on Apple products as well. At first, I thought it was my XPS that was over reacting to the 64 bit [...]
Hi I recently reformatted my laptop and want to reinstall my iTunes but when i plug
my iPod into the computer, there is no prompt that gives me an option to do so. Can you help please get iTunes back on my computer? I lost the disk that came with my iPod.
The best part of the [...]
It’s been about 12-13 days since I’ve started using the Mac and I’m still incredibly impressed, pleased and happy with the experience of the MacBook and OS X.
The other day I had to grab a file off my computer (the Dell XPS M1530) and had to use the touch pad/mouse to navigate through Windows Explorer. [...]
I just recently started having trouble with my hard drive and I called the manufacturer but after they were no help I looked up my problem online and I found out that it looks like I need to use some of the diagnostic tools that came with my hard drive but I unfortunately lost the [...]
I just upgraded to Vista/Windows Mail and now I need to transfer my old email folders from my previous program, Outlook Express in Windows XP…how is this done?
People always forget about setting up their e-mail clients when they migrate over to a new computer and lose the preferences and folder setup instantly.
To move over from [...]
Sorry I’m falling a little behind on Tips of the Day, it’s a busy week. To make up for it, this next tip will be a two-parter.
One of the most powerful tools for increasing your productivity on OS X is Quicksilver. On the surface Quicksilver appears to be a quick application launcher. Sure you can [...]