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How To: Customize the Mac OS X Menu Bar

by Jeff Weisbein September 25, 2011

Have you ever wanted to customize your Mac OS X menu bar? Tired of the transparent white menu bar at the top of your screen? Perhaps you want a sleek black menu bar. Well, good news. Now you can have one. MenuBarFilter is an extremely lightweight app with only one purpose. It changes the color [...]

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Why I Avoid the Mac App Store

by Mike Mansell August 29, 2011

When I first heard that Apple was working to put out an “App Store” for Mac OS X following the incredible success that the company had with a venture of the same name and stature on the iOS platform I was initially very excited. Such an organized system for buying, downloading, and updating software seemed [...]

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7 Reasons I (Finally) Updated to Lion

by Mike Mansell August 26, 2011

I didn’t want to do it. Really, I didn’t. After having bought my first Mac and fallen in love with the clean and crisp user interface of Mac OS X (10.6, Snow Leopard) I was less than eager to update to the latest version (Lion) when it came out last month. Don’t get me wrong, [...]

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How To: Show the Library Folder in OS X Lion

by Jeff Weisbein July 22, 2011

In Apple’s latest release of OS X (Lion), the Library folder is hidden and not accessible by default. For some reason (probably to keep users from causing problems by deleting necessary files) Apple decided to hide it, but what about power users? How do you access the Library folder on Lion if it’s hidden? Well, thankfully, there is an easy way to tell Lion to show the Library folder.

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R.I.P: Apple Axes the Plastic MacBook

by Rohan Reddy July 20, 2011

In the midst of the much-anticipated release of Mac OS X Lion this morning, Apple has also made some changes to their hardware side of the Mac. Changes such as removing the optical drive on the Mac Mini, some spec improvements to both the 11-inch MacBook Air as well as the 13-inch MacBook Air, and they [...]

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Why I’m Avoiding the Move to Lion

by Mike Mansell July 15, 2011

I absolutely love my Mac. With the MacBook Pro, along with products such as the iMac, Mac Mini, and Mac Pro, Apple has seriously raised the bar with the quality and grade of materials and components that go into their computers. The aluminum body, backlit keyboard, large glass trackpad, and beautiful display on my MacBook [...]

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Six Mac OS X Applications That I Couldn’t Live Without

by Mike Mansell July 14, 2011

Being somewhat of a new Mac OS X user, one of the things that I find to be great about the operating system is the vast selection of applications that help me to remain be more efficient and productive. Now, I’m not a huge term of the term “power user” because it simply sounds too cliché, [...]

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Macs Aren’t Customizable? TinkerTool Disagrees.

by Mike Mansell July 10, 2011

One of the first things that Apple critics told me when I purchased my MacBook Pro in March of this year was that Mac OS X, the flagship operating system that Apple develops and runs on all of their computers, was very limited in terms of customization options. Personally, though, the thought of being locked into a simple user interface didn’t bother me in the least; even if the rumors were true.

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How To: Set Up Facebook Video Calling on Lion

by Keaton Taylor July 6, 2011

You might have heard that Facebook announced Video Calling with the help of Skype on their service today. You might have also noticed that if you are running a pre-release version of Mac OS X Lion it simply does not work. In reality the Facebook video calling feature will work on Lion but is blocked due to the unofficial nature of Mac OS X Lion. Below are a few simple steps to get Facebook Video Calling working on any modern browser in Mac OS X Lion.

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Why Does Apple Score So Much Free Product Placement?

by Mike Mansell June 17, 2011

As far as weekdays go, yesterday was a pretty relaxing day. Being my day off, I plopped into the lazy chair in the living room; remote and phone on a side-table, dog and laptop on my lap. And for the better part of the day I remained a fixture in this spot while watching a handful of movies and television shows, cleaning off the DVR to make room for television shows next season.

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