Old MobileMe users are already informed by Apple that it is soon time to switch to iCoud. This new cloud-based service will completely replace MobileMe from June 30. Although iCloud is a free service, not every MobileMe users is happy with the news, iCloud doesn’t work on every iDevice that has been released so far. [...]

Launchpad Control is a free tool that makes it possible to manage Launchpad via the ‘System Prefrences’ menu. This free tool provides all of the functionality that Apple should have added with the release of Mac OS X Lion 10.7 Lion. The developer, Andreas Gaske, has just released a new version of the tool that [...]

When you’re exploring the World Wide Web you are sometimes redirected to a site that you didn’t actually wanted to visit. It is likely that the description of the link was displayed correctly, but that the hyperlink was going to a website that didn’t match the description or keywords. Fortunately, this doesn’t happen too often, [...]

When you connect a USB stick or hard disk to your Mac and format it with Mac OS X, it will automatically use the default OS X file format. This is of course not a problem if the USB device is only used in combination with Mac’s, but when you want to use it with [...]

Users that want to move their iPhoto library to a different physical hard disk or partition can move the library quite easily. The standard iPhoto library is stored in the following folder: Home folder ▸ Pictures ▸ iPhoto Library The ‘iPhoto Library’ can be easily moved or copied to another location with the use of [...]

Users of the iChat application in combinations with an AIM account will probably have encountered some problems with iChat in recent days, it seems that the service was regularly losing the connection or could simply not connect with the server. The problem only seems to occur with those that are making use of a secured [...]

With the launch of iCloud last year it is almost unnecessary to create local backups of your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad. Users that already switched to this ‘over the air’ feature should remove those old backup(s) from your Mac. You can do this in two ways: via iTunes or using Finder. Delete old backups [...]

AirDrop AirDrop is only active on your Mac is you’ve enabled it in the navigation column of Finder. After activating AirDrop in the Finder menu you directly launch AirDrop with the following keyboard shortcut cmd⌘ + ⇧shift + R. Unfortunately, it still isn’t possible to directly send a file with AirDrop from the context menu [...]