In my day job, I can end up downloading hundreds of documents created by students. Although Leopard, Snow Leopard and Lion came with a downloads folder, I still find it quite a hassle to find a download, and move it into a folder. Normally that means clicking on the magnifying [...]

After our article a few days ago – Finding out where you are – I got an interesting comment from one of our readers. If you open up any file on your Mac, you’ll see its name pop up in the top of the program window. Control Clicking that name [...]

We got a huge response to our Quicksilver article yesterday. I hadn’t realised just how popular this software is, and what a huge (cult) following it has! The thing about good software – actually, scrub that. The thing about great software is just when you think you’ve sussed out what [...]

We’ve talked before about Alfred. Supplementing Spotlight searches with Alfred is a great way of working without leaving the keyboard. If you talk about launchers, Quicksilver is the mother of all launchers. Actually, to call it a “launcher” is the mother of all understatements. It wouldn’t be fair to say [...]

You will have seen that on occasion here on Macstarter, we’ll throw up a YouTube video showing you all how to do things. Screen Recordings are an incredibly easy way of showing other people how to do something on a computer. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then [...]

I think one of the greatest Apple inventions of all time was iPhoto. Amongst all my friends and family, the one thing that has never failed to impress them is the ease with which you can get a set of photos off a camera, and put them onto your computer. [...]