If you are one of a numerous victims of MacBook and MacBook Pro hard drive failures, there is a glimpse of hope that you can still have your data recovered. It involves removing the hard drive from its enclosure, from the computer in this case.
Removing the hard drive from a MacBook is a breeze, it [...]

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This is the summary of some tips for new Mac users I have posted in my blog over the past 18 months. If you are new to Mac, I would recommend you read them, you may find some of them very handy, a few maybe quite fascinating.
Installing applications on Mac is somewhat different to the [...]

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One thing many switchers to Mac hate is not being able to access the menu via keyboard shortcuts. For example, in Windows Alt-F gets you to File menu item, Alt-T to Tools, Alt-V to View, and then you select from there.
There is no such thing on Mac, but there is something else, and not many [...]

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There is a quick and easy way to create a slideshow on your Mac without need to go to iPhoto, but rather straight from Finder. Simply navigate to the folder containing pictures, including external hard drive, USB drive or a CD/DVD, and select pictures you’d like to view in your slideshow. Then right-click (Ctrl-click) [...]

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This is one of the first things I have learned when I switched to Mac, and I thought it may be handy to any new Mac users out there.
Sometimes you would like to save the file to your Desktop. Once you click on File | Save as in your application menu bar, the save dialog [...]

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Ever had a dozen of icons fighting over one square inch of your screen? Jumping on top of each other, taking focus, mixing labels and looking like this?

Yes, it’s OS X default setting, slightly oversized icons with no particular order where to place each of them. Pretty messy, isn’t it …
Of course, there is a [...]

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