In my most recent article (”Five tips to help ease the migration from Mac to Linux“) I outlined ways to help end-users transfer from the Mac operating system to the Linux operating system. It was suggested to me that I should cover applications that could serve as replacements for popular Mac apps. Your wish is [...]

Tags: iCal, iPhoto, itunes, iWork, linux equivalent applications, mac, os x
Categories: Advice, Linux, Mac, Open Source, software

In my most recent article “Five ways to ease the migration from Windows to Linux” I examined how you can help new users make the migration from Windows to Linux easier. Most know the very philosophies behind both of those operating systems are very different. Because of that, many often need a bit of hand-holding in order [...]

Tags: mac, mac to linux, os x, os x to linux
Categories: Advice, Apple, Desktop Manager, Linux, Mac, Microsoft, Open Source, Operating Systems, software

Macs don’t have a PrintScreen button, and if we want to take a screen-capture, the default program we use is Grab. Grab is great in a few ways; you can choose to use a timer before a screen-capture is taken and it can be used to ensure only a certain area of the screen is [...]

Tags: mac, os x, screen capture, screen capture software, screen capture tool, screenshot, Skitch, Skitch.com
Categories: Mac, Online Services, software

When I switched to a Mac, I did not purchase an iPod for a few months. I previously had a Creative Zen Vision M media player. Unfortunately, this device was not mass storage, but utilised ‘Media Transfer Protocol’. Whilst several pieces of software on Windows provide the facility to move music to the device, OS [...]

Tags: apple, creative, iPod, libmtp, libnjb, libraries, mac, media transfer protocol, mp3-player, mtp, njb, os x, portable devices, xnjb
Categories: Gadgets, Hardware, Mac, Music and Video, Open Source, Tools, software

About three weeks ago, I finally got an invite for Google Voice, the new phone-managing service from Google that I’d been itching to try out since before it was even called Google Voice (back then, it was called GrandCentral, and I still wanted it really, really badly).
Google Voice has a ton of great features, and [...]

Tags: cell-phone, Google, google voice, mac, mobile, Mobiles, phone, Windows
Categories: Google, The Web, software

Some web browsers don’t fully respect web standards and many WYSIWYG HTML editors produce absolutely revolting code. W3C set out standards as to how HTML (and XHTML etc) should appear and whilst some choose to ignore these, some are devoted to the following of these standards.
Sticking to standards can therefore lead to issues with certain [...]

Tags: Amaya, html, html editor, Linux, mac, Open Source, w3c, web design, web designer, web development, Windows, wysiwyg, wysiwyg editor, xhtml, xml
Categories: Web Development, software

Computer users often hate having to have a CD or DVD in their drive to run a game. To circumvent this, images are often burned to hard drives or cracks used. Cracks are rapidly found for Windows, but it can be an extreme chore to find them for Macs.
EA use a product called Cider to [...]

Tags: cider, cracks, electronic arts, mac, no dvd, no-cd, os x, the sims, the sims 3, transgaming
Categories: Games, Mac