Mac Advice of the Week – ctrl + System Prefs

  This week’s tip should save you a little time when you’re trying to get to one of the System Preferences panels. You could open up System Preferences, and then choose what you need to. But you could also go to your Dock and click on the System Preferences icon [...]



Mac App Review – Caffeinated Mac App Review – Caffeinated

I’ve been a Google Reader fan for years. For those of you who don’t know what that is, Google Reader lets you keep up with RSS feeds. For those of you who don’t know what that is, it’s basically a way for you to keep up with your favourite websites [...]

iA Writer Demo iA Writer Demo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PL4Fs9Avqg

For today’s article, I thought I’d share a video of me using iA Writer. I just can’t say enough good things about this program. I’ve got to the point where I try to find reasons for writing stuff, just so that I can fire it up.     Seeing it [...]

Mac Advice of the week – keyboard language Mac Advice of the week – keyboard language

One of the features that sets Macs apart from other computers is how you can switch languages. You can actually set the language of the entire Mac OS X system to one of your choosing, something that’s not possible with Windows for example. The other thing you can do very [...]

Screen Recordings Screen Recordings

Have you ever needed to take a video of your computer while you were using it? Regular readers will know that every so often, here at Macstarter, we give video demonstrations of something cool. But how do you make those videos? Since Snow Leopard, Quicktime Player has this feature built [...]

Upgrading your Mac – part II – RAM Upgrading your Mac – part II – RAM

This article does not endorse opening your Macs for upgrade. This is simply a description of the upgrade I did on my my own personal machine. Upgrading your Macs will always be your own choice and therefore will be done at your own risk. In our previous article we talked about upgrading the RAM on your [...]

Upgrading your Mac – part I – RAM Upgrading your Mac – part I – RAM

Before I bought my first iMac almost a decade ago, I was a steadfast PC guy (though not in a “I’m a PC” kind of way). I spent hours and hours upgrading video cards, changing hard drives, and motherboards. I suppose it’s the nerdy equivalent to souping up a cool [...]