How to Scan Images with Preview By MacLife published 2 July 12 Digitize your photos or scan important documents with ease .
Why the Retina MacBook Pro is the Last Mac I'll Ever Buy By MacLife published 15 June 12 Despite my post earlier this week arguing against this, I will indeed be picking up a new MacBook Pro with Retina display as soon as possible.
How to Edit Video for Free By MacLife published 8 June 12 Trim, combine and share your videos using QuickTime Player .
Terminal 101: Running AppleScripts from the Terminal By MacLife published 21 May 12 Every Monday, we'll show you how to do something new and simple with Apple's built-in command line application. You don't need any fancy software, or a knowledge of coding to do any of these.
How to Sync your iPhoto Library with Dropbox and Google Drive By MacLife published 14 May 12 With iOS 5, Apple launched the ubiquitous Photo Stream and made photo sharing and syncing a cinch between Macs and iOS devices.
How to Use OS X Boot Options to Troubleshoot Your Mac By MacLife published 8 May 12 There are times when your Mac may misbehave and refuse to boot into OS X. You may get a sad Mac face, an audible beep, or another ailment keeping your Mac from properly booting.
How to Remove Startup Items in OS X By MacLife published 19 April 12 Are you tired of applications launching automatically when you start your Mac? Don’t like having a slew of background applications causing your system to slow down? You can remove those Startup items from launching and bogging down your performance.
How to Play Videos on Your iPad with PlayerXtreme By MacLife published 10 April 12 Tired of the tedious conversion process it takes to get your iOS device to play back videos? Want to watch your videos in more than just the handfull of proprietary file formats? Fortunately, there’s an app for that.
Terminal 101: Zip and Unzip Files By MacLife published 19 March 12 Every Monday, we'll show you how to do something new and simple with Apple's built-in command line application. You don't need any fancy software, or a knowledge of coding to do any of these.
Terminal 101: File Permissions By MacLife published 5 March 12 Every Monday, we'll show you how to do something new and simple with Apple's built-in command line application. You don't need any fancy software, or knowledge of coding to do any of these.
Terminal 101: Track and Kill Processes By MacLife published 27 February 12 Every Monday, we'll show you how to do something new and simple with Apple's built-in command line application. You don't need any fancy software, or a knowledge of coding to do any of these.
How to Import and Export Excel Files with Numbers By MacLife published 24 February 12 Make sure your spreadsheets work in Microsoft Office as they do in iWork .
7 Things Apple Doesn’t Tell You About iCloud By MacLife published 20 February 12 Sure, there’s plenty to love about iCloud -- after all, it’s a giant step up from Apple’s previous cloud efforts like MobileMe and .
How to Use Real Musical Instruments with GarageBand on Your iPad By MacLife published 13 February 12 It’s time to plug a real instrument into GarageBand to see what it can do .
How to Control Your Attachments in Mail By MacLife published 9 February 12 Get Mail to display and send attachments in exactly the way you want .
How to Use Your iPhone as an iPod Touch Without a SIM Card By MacLife published 16 January 12 I am thinking about upgrading to the new iPhone 4S and giving my iPhone 3GS to my wife to use as something similar to the iPod touch.
How to Use Back to My Mac By MacLife published 11 January 12 Access any Mac you need, no matter where you are. With Back to My Mac, you can access your Mac’s hard drive and swap files from any Internet-connected Mac running OS X Lion (10.
How to Remove the Disk-hogging Sleepimage File from Your Mac By MacLife published 22 December 11 If you've ever used a large file discovery tool like Daisy Disk, you may have stumbled upon a peculiarly large filed dubbed sleepimage.
How to Open Winmail.dat Files By MacLife published 29 November 11 What is the deal with those winmail. dat files? I get them in my email all the time, and nothing seems to be able to open them.
How to Locate What's Sucking up Your Hard Drive Space By MacLife published 17 November 11 It’s all too easy to say “oh, I’ll just delete some stuff” and then never do it. Take action today and cut the flab from your file system by locating the major space-sucking culprits.
How to Grab a Still from a QuickTime Video By MacLife published 16 November 11 I have several QuickTime video clips from which I would like to extrapolate single still shots that I can import into iPhoto and use in an iPhoto book.
Using rsync to Keep Your Files in Sync By MacLife published 19 September 11 Keep your files in sync using a simple command line utility. Macs have long been equipped with a file syncing utility unknown by most users.
12 Possible Uses for the Thunderbolt Port By MacLife published 6 September 11 Thunderbolt has been on the market for less than a year, but we’re already dreaming of all the cool things we might be able to do with it.
How to Set Up an iTunes Home Server By MacLife published 1 September 11 Online music storage is an area that has exploded in recent months, with Amazon, Google and Apple all becoming major players in the game.
14 Best Inventions of Steve Jobs By MacLife published 25 August 11 Steve Jobs may just be the greatest inventor of our age. We dug through Google Patents and found that Steve Jobs is listed as the primary or co-inventor on 241 patents.