Some features of Path Finder 6 aren’t all that clear-cut. Take one of all of our four (4) tutorial screencasts that show you how to use Path Finder. Covered are the sidebar, toolbar and modules, tags, and batch rename.
Walkthrough: Amarra HiFi music player for Mac
August 23, 2012 by
The Amarra audiophile music player for the Mac never ceases to amaze me with its quality, but its interface may look a bit daunting to first time users. Here is a walkthrough of the interface. It will help you get to speed with Amarra 2.4.x quickly.
Mountain Lion: task management
August 14, 2012 by
Using Mountain Lion’s Mail and Reminders, you can create a system that will alert you when something important happens. With MailTags 3.1.2 in the mix, you have yourself a complete task management system.
Quick Tip: Making a Reminder from a Mail message on Mountain Lion
August 1, 2012 by
There are no shortcuts, menu items or toolbar buttons to create a reminder from a message, so how do you create one and what’s the quickest way?
Quick Tip: SnapBack in Safari 6 on Mountain Lion
August 1, 2012 by
In Safari versions up to 5.x, there was a SnapBack button sitting at the far right in the URL bar. When you searched and clicked on a link in the results list, you could navigate further from site to site and still quickly return to your earlier search results. That button is gone in Safari 6 on Mountain Lion.
Tutorial: Taking screenshots in Photoshop format and exporting parts to PNG with Slicy
July 27, 2012 by
Take your screenshots on a Mac and save them to Photoshop files. Then in Photoshop, create a layer per screen element, and save them to PNGs or JPEGs using Slicy 1.1 — and choose between Retina 2x, 1x or none.
Easy Fix: Toast Titanium 11 and the Hang-at-99% bug
July 25, 2012 by
Toast Titanium 11.0.6 has a frustrating bug: at 99% of the burning process, the application hangs indefinitely. It’s right before the Lead-out on DVDs and Blu-Rays should start to be written. And although a DVD or Blu-Ray used as backup media will work just fine, it is a different story when using Toast to burn a movie or an audio CD or DVD.
Quick Tip: Diagnose Bluetooth from the menu bar
July 24, 2012 by
You can diagnose your Bluetooth connection and even create a full diagnostics report using the Bluetooth System Preferences panel, but you can do the same directly from the status bar (aka menu bar) in Mac OS X Lion.
Quick Tip: Setting your sound input/output from the menu bar
July 24, 2012 by
Click the Speaker icon in the status bar (aka menu bar) with the Option key held down. You can now select the input and output source for your Mac’s sound.
Hazel on OS X as a basic offload application for images and video
April 3, 2012 by
Hazel on Mac OS X is your personal housekeeper. Hazel can monitor whatever folders you choose and organize files according to rules you create. We reviewed Hazel recently, but today I want to show you how to create a very simple and basic offload system using Hazel and an Automator workflow. Offloading is the process [...]
