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How to Reset Mac OS X Account Passwords

It’s human nature to forget little bits of information from time to time and passwords are not an exception. If you forgot your Mac account password or you have a new Mac (bought or inherited) and you don’t know the password needed to login, this tutorial will help you reset an original administrator&rsqu...

31 July 2011
11:01 GMT

How to Create a Bootable Mac OS X USB Disk

This article will allow you to learn the necessary steps for creating your own bootable Mac OS X Leopard (or Lion) image on a USB memory stick. This might be needed if your Mac needs a reinstall or a “Repair Disk” procedure and it has problems reading the bundled Install disc. To use this tutorial an 8 GB...

31 July 2011
05:01 GMT

How to Create a Mac App Store Account Without a Credit Card

Here you will be able to learn how to create your own App Store account without entering any credit card information. This account will allow you to download any free application available in the App Store and it comes with no other limitations besides being unable to buy apps.Since it was launched on January 7, Appl...

1 March 2011
06:11 GMT

How to Protect Your Mac App Store Account’s Security

This tutorial will allow you to familiarize yourself with the rules one has to follow for keeping a Mac App store account secure. You can make sure that no one will be able to break in to your Mac App Store account by never sending sensitive information to other people, by securely storing and always keeping your rec...

28 February 2011
15:41 GMT

What to Do if Your Mac Has Video Problems

Most Mac owners have heard of people that have or had problems with their Apple computer’s display. Some Macs have problems with their internal displays while others will have issues when connected to external displays that are not necessarily Apple approved material. Some Macs might also have problems with bot...

20 January 2011
07:21 GMT

How to Troubleshoot Email Problems on Your iPad

Since Apple launched the iPad on the market a lot of people have bought these devices. Most of them have bought iPads because they are extremely portable, and this means that one can stay in touch with friends and family without having to carry around heavier devices like notebooks. Staying in touch with others mean...

19 January 2011
07:31 GMT

What To Do if Your Mac Does not Turn On

Any Mac owner should know what to do if his/her computer refuses to turn on. Whenever you face such a situation you don’t have to give up and take your Mac to the nearest Apple Store immediately because there a number of steps that you can take to prevent yourself being embarassed. Although some tend to let ot...

28 September 2010
07:11 GMT

What To Do if Your Mac Does not Boot Normally

After reading this article you will know how to use Safe Mode, Disk Utility and fsck for fixing the errors preventing a Mac to boot normally.If you have used Macs long enough you must have heard of people having problems booting up their machines from time to time. For instance their Macs start up but they either won...

20 August 2010
07:31 GMT

How to Import Videos from Your iPod nano to iPhoto or iMovie

These are the steps you need to follow in order to move your iPod nano 5th generation videos to your Mac for further viewing or editing.If you are a fan of Apple hardware and also a fan of small and all-encompassing gadgetry you must have fallen in love with the iPod nano (5th generation) the moment you saw or even h...

18 August 2010
07:31 GMT

How to Restore Your iPod to Factory Settings

This step-by-step guide presents the safest procedure to be used when you want to restore your iPod to its factory settings.If you have an iPod, you must have come across at least one of the following problems: your iPod freezes while playing a movie or song, does not respond to any of your commands, or just goes bla...

17 August 2010
07:31 GMT

Apple Tells Us How to Disinfect Keyboards, Mice, Trackpad

Apple has published / updated a knowledge base article on the Support area of its web site with useful information on how to properly clean Macintosh peripherals.“In addition to regular cleaning of your computer and input devices (keyboards, trackpads, and mice), you may find it necessary to disinfect them,&rdq...

13 August 2010
10:27 GMT

Troubleshoot Time Machine's Issues in Snow Leopard

If you are an avid Time Machine user, sometimes, you might end up having to deal with errors that make no sense and no matter how much time you put into solving them you just can’t find a solution. If it has happened to your or one of your friends and you want to help him or yourself, here are the solutions to ...

3 August 2010
01:41 GMT

How to Change the Language on Your iPhone/iPod touch

Have you ever had your iPhone/iPod touch‘s language changed by a malevolent friend that just stood there afterwards, watching you squirm while you were trying to understand Chinese? Or, even worse, have you ever changed your language by mistake and, after trying to change it back countless times, ended up at an...

1 August 2010
05:51 GMT

How to Manage Playlists and Songs on Your iPod

Lots of iPod users keep their devices stacked up with a lot of songs and playlists but, when having to manage them all, they usually discover that this task is a huge time waster. There are also people that hate playlists and only copy to their iPods the music they really wan to listen and let the it play randomly.To...

31 July 2010
07:51 GMT

What to Do if You Can't Turn Your iPod On

There are times when nothing works as it should and your iPod is no exception. You may want to contradict me but all iPods will, eventually, experience one or more of the issues presented in this article. Your iPod may not power on at all, it may display the battery logo and refuse to respond to any of your commands,...

30 July 2010
12:51 GMT

How to Reset an iPod

If you have a frozen iPod you do not have to bash it or throw it around in the hope that this way it will get better without you having to mess with an extended procedure to revive it. If this has happened to you, do not despair, there are a few easy steps you can follow to bring it back to life in no time.First of ...

28 July 2010
12:51 GMT

How to Get Your Free iPhone Bumper from Apple

Apple is making it easy for customers to choose a Bumper or third party case for their new iPhone and have the company ship one to their door, free of charge. Owners of a new generation iPhone 4 handset need to download a free application from the iTunes App Store and confirm with Apple that they own the troubled dev...

26 July 2010
10:56 GMT

How To: Download and Install iOS 4.0.1 for iPhone

As revealed by Apple on July 15, iOS 4.0.1 for iPhone improves the formula to determine how many bars of signal strength to display. Although mainly aimed at the latest-introduced iPhone, the firmware update is to be applied on iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, and iPhone 4 devices using iTunes 9.2 or later.These are the steps ...

21 July 2010
09:28 GMT

Apple on How To Uninstall the VoiceOver Kit

Addressing owners of an iPod nano (5th generation), or iPod shuffle (3rd generation), and users of, iTunes 9, iTunes 8 for Windows, and iTunes 8 for Mac, Apple has posted a short guide on removing the VoiceOver kit from one’s computer.While introducing its third-generation iPod shuffle last year, Apple reveale...

5 July 2010
10:08 GMT

How To: Download and Install iOS 4 for iPhone, iPod touch

Now that the highly anticipated iOS 4 is out for the iPhone and iPod touch, the next thing owners of a supported device need to know is how to download and install the software. As Apple puts it, “Updating is easy,” really easy! First off, let’s see the products that are compatible with this softwar...

22 June 2010
03:00 GMT

How To: Downgrade to Safari 4 on Leopard, Snow Leopard

Going by a number of recent Apple Discussions forum posts, Mac users should steer clear of Safari 5.0, the latest iteration of Apple’s powerful web browser. Both Leopard and Snow Leopard users are reporting various issues with the new browser, while some are desperately looking for a way to revert back to Safar...

14 June 2010
05:28 GMT

Things to Do If Your MacBook Does Not Turn On

You turned on your MacBook, MacBook Air or MacBook Pro and nothing happens. You tried everything that you could think of to bring it back to life, but everything failed. What now? Most individuals would just pack it up and leave the people at the Apple Retail Store or an Apple Authorized Service Provider to deal with...

9 June 2010
10:21 GMT

How to Migrate Data to a New iPhone

So you just bought yourself a latest generation iPhone and you now want to transfer information from your old iPhone to your newly bought iPhone. You can easily replace your current iPhone with a new one using the same carrier and you can also get your personal information from one to the other by backing up your old...

3 June 2010
14:41 GMT

How To: Create New Text File in Finder

Whether you switch from Windows to Mac OS X, or vice versa, there’s going to be at least one thing that felt very comfortable doing on one OS, that doesn’t on the other. In the case of switching from Windows to Mac, there is one handy function that, for one reason or another, Apple refuses to implement wi...

22 April 2010
09:14 GMT

How to Rename Your Wireless Apple Mouse, Magic Mouse

As many of you should know, Apple has recently launched a new, Multi-Touch capable mouse - the Magic Mouse. The older mouse didn’t leave the scene as the new one arrived, although Apple is heavily promoting the new peripheral. The two mice have something in common - they’re Bluetooth-capable and work with...

15 December 2009
10:05 GMT

‘How to Do Everything on iPhone’

Apple has posted a web page dedicated to iPhone fans looking to make the most out of their experience. The page consists of tutorials showing iPhone owners how to use the iPhone’s unique features, right out of the box. If you’ve ever wanted to master functions like conference calls, Wi-Fi networking and w...

29 June 2009
10:54 GMT

Quick Tip: Finding an App's Original Icon Set in Mac OS X

Say you're doing a project for school, a presentation, or you simply need to get a hold of an application's original (512 x 512) icon. Searching Google Images may do the trick, but you'll often find yourself with pictures that are too small, blurry, modified or just not the one you're looking for....

2 June 2009
09:22 GMT

How To: Using Native Extensions in Google Chrome

One of the things that make Firefox so popular is its support for user-created add-ons. These are so varied in functionality and features, depending on the browser, that the main development team couldn't possibly include all of them and in fact many users may not want certain features that others couldn't ...

1 June 2009
08:43 GMT

How To: Scrobble YouTube Videos to Last.fm

Last.fm, a service with social networking components, has proved very popular with music fans who like to share their tastes with their friends, and one of the best parts about it is that it lets you scrobble your music. Scrobbling is a process that involves getting the song info and uploading it to Last.fm, and you ...

27 May 2009
05:34 GMT

How to: Make Money from Google Maps

Google has announced a new feature for the popular mapping service Google Maps today in the form of an ad module. The Maps Ad Unit, as it is called, can be integrated into your existing Google Maps API implementation. The Maps Ad Unit is an optional feature that geo developers and others who use Google Maps on thei...

22 May 2009
10:24 GMT

Determining Who Needs Battery Update 1.4

As you may have heard, Apple has released a new battery update for users of a 13-inch MacBook, ranging from the original model to the Late 2008 unibody SKU and the NVIDIA-equipped polycarbonate MacBook.The new update is available solely as a standalone installer package which users need to determine whether or not th...

3 March 2009
03:30 GMT

Making an iPhone Application

Developer Gogogic makes iPhone games. The folks at Gogogic love their work so much that they decided to share with everyone how they make their apps. As an example, they chose a game that turned out to be called Symbol6 (Hexago was a working title), which is currently featured in the App Store.Titled “Symbol6 :...

12 February 2009
08:32 GMT

How to Install Unreal Tournament 3 Mods on the PS3

Unreal Tournament 3 (UT3) is a first-person shooter and online multiplayer video game by Epic Games and is the next installment of the Unreal series after Unreal Tournament 2004. It is published by Midway Games and was released for Windows on November 19, 2007. It was released for the PlayStation 3 on December 10, 2...

28 December 2007
16:21 GMT

How to Turn your Wii into a Virtual Reality Device

We've shown you cool uses of the Wiimote, courtesy of Johnny Chung Lee and it seems that the man is at it again, delivering us a neat invention, based once again on Nintendo's hot console. There's even a great tutorial video beneath, so feel free to check it out or even try it yourself, in case you wa...

28 December 2007
08:40 GMT

How To: Database Security

Once in a while I go searching the web to see if I can find anything on how to easily improve security. I've been reading some pretty good stuff lately, but the best thing that I came across today was a simple security plan for databases. I found it on eWeek and it is a nice and easy 5 step strategy. So here it ...

6 September 2007
04:00 GMT

YouTube - Your Home and Personal Teacher

I'm sure you know that YouTube has a lot of video categories and among them, you can also find the HowTo + DIY area that brings valuable information in several domains. Actually, this category is full of tutorials and how tos that can help you and bring answers for many of your questions. Moreover, you can even ...

14 August 2007
03:21 GMT


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