It was speculative before given the lack of independent confirmation, but now apparently Apple has gone on record to confirm that the original deal signed with AT&T for iPhone exclusivity back in 2007 was a five-year deal. That means at least some legal hoops would need jumping through if we’re ever going to see that [...]

If you sometimes find your desktop cluttered with multiple browser windows, try using tabs in Safari. Tabs let you open multiple web pages in a single Safari window, so you can easily flip between them. They’re one of the best ways to amp up your web-browsing experience — especially once you’ve tamed them via a [...]

Under normal circumstances, Safari retains records of your web browsing activity. It remembers the pages you visit, the data you download, and your web searches. It may also store your personal data in order to automatically complete online forms. While these features can save time and help you retrace your online steps, there are occasions [...]

Your Mac lets you decide which, if any, applications open automatically each time you log into your account in Mac OS X Leopard. For example, you might want iChat and Mail to open every time you sign on. These automatically opening programs are called Login items, and here’s how to manage them. From the Apple [...]

Web surfers know that web pages, blog entries, and images posted online are often tagged with keywords: terms that help identify and locate relevant content via web searches. These keywords might not even appear in the text or file names—they’re simply attached as metadata, so search engines can “see” them. In a similar sense, you [...]

In Mac OS X Leopard, you can capture an image of your entire screen by typing: Command + Shift + 3Command + Shift + 4 Lets you choose a specific part of your screen to save as a screenshot: Click and hold to place the small cross-hair cursor at one edge of the area you [...]

By setting Spotlight priorities you can find more faster whatever you are looking for in your MAC.

Upgrading to Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.3 was a painless procedure until I tried to access some SMB mounts… suddenly I had no write access to my samba drives! I was presented with this error message: he operation can’t be completed because you don’t have permission to access some of the items. Thankfully there’s [...]

If you want to be absolutely sure your data is wiped clean with virtually no chance of recovery, look no further than Apple’s Disk Utility tool. The process is simple.

I recently read an article on the need for math education: “What is mathematics for?” AMS Notices. It is the best article written on this subject I have ever read. It is simply that it helps develop our reasoning abilities not because it helps get a job. Especially the math taught beyond 8th grade, almost [...]