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 [...]

Since the release of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, QuickTime is replaced with QuickTime Player X. The QuickTime Player X has a number of very useful features such as uploading videos to YouTube and MobileMe and of course a number of editing features. However, there are a number of things that we still don’t [...]

Apple has seeded the second beta of OS X Lion 10.7.4 to developers. The second beta with build number ‘11E35’ doesn’t havy major issues according to Apple. What Apple exactly has changed in this new build is unknown, but Apple indicates that developers should pay attention to the Mac App Store, Graphics, QuickTime, Mail and [...]

Nobody had expected anything today from Apple, but they have just released the first developer preview of Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. This is already the ninth major release of Mac OS X or OS X as Apple now seems to keep referring to it, the company says that it will be a paid [...]

If you have a busy schedule, and would like to inform other people about your activities than it is possible to automate this in iCal using Automator. With Automator it is possible to automatically create a list with appointments in your schedule and email these to your contacts. This can be useful for your personal [...]

In Mac OS X Lion there have been some very useful features added to the Finder application. One of these features is the possibility to merge files and folders into a new folder. Select a number of folder and/or files in Finder and click on the right mouse button. In the context menu, you will [...]

New Trojan horse detected for Mac OS X, masked as a PDF file The malware will show a PDF file, but will automatically activate the Revir trojan, that installs the Imuler-backdoor. This latest Trojan is detected by F-Secure, the server of the Mac Trojan is currently not active, it is also unclear how the malware [...]

With OS X Terminal, you can use the top command to exactly see what your Mac is currently doing. You can view regular things like memory and CPU usage per application and other very detailed information. Many OS X users will not find it interesting, but administrators of systems should be interested and know how [...]