Do you know any Terminal tricks or third-party apps that can bring these three things back to Lion? First, the winding gear in the lower-right corner of a Finder window that lets me know the information is being accessed, just not visible yet. Second, the line of info at the bottom of the Finder window [...]

I’ve never enabled FileVault because I’ve heard that it made backing up with Time Machine difficult. Is there a way to make FileVault and Time Machine play nice with each other? It’s true that FileVault and Time Machine have historically not played well together, but with OS X Lion, Apple has thankfully fixed these issues. [...]

I upgraded my MacBook Pro with a solid-state drive for speed, but it’s too small to hold all of my files. I know how to move music and photo folders to an external drive, but how do I move my Documents folder? I created a Documents folder on an external drive, but no matter what, [...]

DigiNotar, a certificate authority (CA) responsible for issuing digital certificates used to verify a website as authentic, announced on August 30 that hundreds of its certificates had been compromised. While others have reacted quickly, Apple is still mum on plans to protect Mac OS X or iOS users from the rogue certificates. Similar Articles:

What’s the deal with the “i”? Why does Apple call everything i-something (iMac, iCal, iPhone), and when did that start? To understand where the “i” in Apple’s product names comes from, we need to take a stroll back to 1998. Mac|Life was known as MacAddict, and Apple had just hired Steve Jobs back as interim [...]

Games for Mac is the subject of this article and today I want to talk about the games If you own a Mac then you already know that it is wonderful system but today I am going to teach you some Mac tweaks that could make your life so much easier. The Mac operating system [...]

Head about the recent malware attacks against Macs? The malware known as Mac Defender, Mac Protector, and Mac Security is spreading among Mac users. Many Mac owners are looking for software they thought they would never need: 3rd party anti-virus and firewall protection. If you use a Mac should you purchase and buy an anti-virus [...]

Mac spyware is something that luckily we Mac users very seldom have to deal with but we are never truly safe. Though Mac is a high quality product it seems that we need to start taking measures to prevent getting a virus and head off the invasion of Mac spyware. In the past the Mac [...]

Not long ago, some of our customers asked if there was a good screen recorder for Mac OS Snow Leopard. A screen recorder is a program that records the screen shot (an image of your computer desktop or an active window). Recording screenshots sometimes can be very useful, especially when the employer wants to figure [...]

When it comes to internet security for Macintosh (Mac) computers, the subject is an increasingly controversial one. Some believe in the necessity for protection and some don’t. Some feel that the Mac OS X operating system is the most secure operating system on the planet. While others feel OS X is ripe with exploits that [...]