Category: Software
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Music In Tahoe: Hellish
The Biggest Problems with MacOS Tahoe’s Music.app A lot has been written about MacOS 16‘s (Tahoe) strengths and features, but little about how it actually is to navigate around the various included apps. The one most people will be familiar with is Music.app, that prior to the rename was called iTunes. This app is a…
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MacOS: First App Installations
Owning a computer opens up a whole world of possibilities. But in this world a lot of people don’t know about time savers and conveniences that us seasoned Mac Users (40 year in my case) have found on our journeys throughout the internet. There are a lot of articles about what to install first, I…
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UI Missteps: Form over Function
Don’t get me wrong. The people at MacUpdate usually do a great job of managing and taking user feedback. But even with their careful curation of Mac & iOS apps that receive updates (sometimes numbering close to 100 OS X apps alone in one day), things slip through the cracks. I wasted about 5 minutes trying to…
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Almost Everything I learned about Teamwork and Leadership, I Learned in Clan Lord
I’ve been threatening to write this post for about a year. I had this sitting on the back-burner for a month and asked for comments from another player also in the IT Admin field. So, without further ado… For the unwashed, Clan Lord is an archaic, sorely out-of-date Multi-player Online Role-playing Game (MORPG) that has been…
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Developing Web Sites on OS X Faster & Easier
Tools I use that have made setting up a web development environment on the latest versions of OS X faster & easier than ever.
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CleanMyMac 2: Not Just for Newer Users
Bottom Line (TL;DR) MacPaw’s CleanMyMac2 is a fast and easy Mac cleanup utility that even advanced users will find a few features that save them tons of time. You could do a lot of the stuff that CleanMyMac2 does manually, but then you would have much less time to do other things, like actually being…
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Another round of Dropbox Scam Emails Spikes my Blog
I have gotten about 10 or more fake dropbox invites this past few weeks, and a funny thing happened: my blog stats spiked like crazy! So, given that fact, I want to help people by reposting the link to that article that should show up in searches as being a fresher piece of info. Again,…
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PowerTunes: the iTunes Library Management App I Wished For
If you are anything like me, you will love PowerTunes. The reason for this is that I have an iTunes library with tens of thousands of songs that started about a decade ago from ripped CDs. This library has been moved from computer to computer. As a result of this it has built up a…
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OS 10.8: Mountain Lion, The Svelte King (Upgrade Advice & First Impression)
Mountain Lion increases OS X’s refinement. Upgrade Advice, SeaGate GoFlex Drives, Hard Drive Interface notes, OS X 10.8: Initial Impressions