| Improve Your Mac (Part 10) - Add Video To Pages Projects |
| By using the Media Browser or dragging a file from the Finder, you can add a compatible video clip to a Pages project that can be viewed on any Mac with Pages installed. Unfortunately, you can’t export your project in another format with the video embedded. |
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| Improve Your Mac (Part 9) - Understand Activity Monitor |
| All sorts of complex things go on behind the scenes of OS X, and its slick and friendly interface masks a highly technical set of processes and hardware/software interactions that make everything run smoothly. The average user might ordinarily have no need to uncover these kinds of things, but for any kind of troubleshooting, being able to see what’s happening under the hood is useful. |
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| Improve Your Mac (Part 8) - Master OS X Reminders |
| It’s long been possible to make to-do lists on your Mac using iCal, but OS X Mountain Lion has simplified the process by creating a separate app for this, called Reminders. Just like on the iPhone, IPad and iPod touch, this is a single- purpose app for you to create and manage your to-do lists. |
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| Improve Your Mac (Part 7) - Build a database with Bento 4 |
| Bento lets you build databases to store information on any subject you want. If you already use it on the Mac, the iPad version can be synced to carry your existing databases with you. But the iPad version is more powerful than that: it offers the ability to create databases too. In this tutorial, well show you how to add fields to a database, create new records, browse them, and view them in different ways, using the grid and form views. |
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| Improve Your Mac (Part 6) - Free Up Disk Space Fast |
| If you’ve ever moved to a bigger house, you’ll have noticed one of the odd properties about the things you own: they seem to expand to fill their surroundings. It’s like reverse magic. given that the laws of physics appear to have been defied, but not to your benefit. |
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| Improve Your Mac (Part 5) - Using little snitch to identify bandwidth hogs |
| Little Snitch helps you identify and optionally block unauthorised applications from accessing your broadband. It’s an effective defence against malware that may be using your broadband connection to attack remote computers or sending logs of your keystrokes and personal data to criminals’ servers. I |
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| Improve Your Mac (Part 4) - Tips for saving bandwidth |
| When you’re buying into a broadband bundle, the adage about getting what you pay for is almost always true. Unlimited accounts with high-speed access cost the most slower speeds or capped deals often work out cheaper, but could cost more in the long run. |
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| Improve Your Mac (Part 3) - Access your read-later articles |
| There’s always time to watch a tiny clip of a cute penguin, but not so much for a 2,000 word opus on something you nonetheless find hugely interesting. This is why read-later services are increasingly popular, providing you with the means to save stories for later. |
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| Improve Your Mac (Part 2) - Add Music To You Movies |
| iMovie is designed with musical scores in mind and it’s incredibly easy for you to add an audio track to your project and heighten the mood of your film with the right song or sound effect. But the way it handles sound can differ, depending on how you add that track in the first place. It’s possible, for instance, to add your music in such a way that it spans the entirety of your project, even lading automatically at the end, should your film be shorter than your chosen song. |
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| Improve Your Mac (Part 1) - Import Pictures into iPhoto |
| iPhoto’s strength is its ability to simplify a complicated task. These days you can capture photos in a whole range of ways - you can take them with a digital camera, shoot them on your iPhone or iPad or even have them sent to you by friends. |
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| Scan 3XS Z77 FT03 Nanu - Too Hot To Handle? |
| Scan has long had a hard-earned reputation for high levels of quality when it comes to desktop PCs, but we didn't expect the Bolton-based firm to abandon the traditional tower entirely for its latest machine, the busily named 3XS Z77 FT03 Nanu. |
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| The Thunderous Buffalo - Buffalo MiniStation Thunderbolt (HD-PATU3) |
| Thunderbolt. One word to denote speed and performance, along with our undying excitement. With the bevy of Thunderbolt supporting Intel motherboards made available now, it's hard to ignore the term. Even harder to ignore are Thunderbolt devices, such as the Buffalo MiniStation Thunderbolt portable hard drive. |
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| Toshiba STOR.E Edition 500GB |
| Take the compact Toshiba STOR.E Edition 500GB, for example. This uses a Toshiba 2.5" drive mechanism, which the enclosure is barely bigger than, and when connected to the USB 3,0 port of a PC, it can easily achieve 60MB/S writing and 70MB/S reading. That's not much below what I'd expect from a directly connected 5400rpm bare drive, and at least twice what any USB 2.0 attached drive can deliver. |
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| The New Office Eco-System |
| The last version of Microsoft’s Office suite of productivity tools was several years ago. Now, with Windows getting an overhaul, so too is Office. We got our hands on a Samsung Series 7 Slate with Windows 8, and a preview edition of Office 2013 to see what desk-jockeys and students have to look forward to. |
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| Windows 7: Useful But Ignored |
| While the launch of Windows 8 this season no doubt occupies much of the breathless blogosphere, most people will lean back and wait before upgrading to the much different look and feel of Win8. As “Software Tips” makes its own transition to the next-generation Microsoft OS, we thought it fitting to take a parting glance at some of the cool but overlooked tools and tweaks that still make Windows 7 a joy to use. |
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| MSI Z77A-GD80 - Zapping In With Thunderbolt |
| Getting the usual introductions out of the way, the GD80 has four DDR3 SODIMM slots that support dual-channel memory, a whopping eight SATA slots, four of which are SATA III with the rest being SATA II. |
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| Corsair Force GS 240GB |
| Corsair tries to bring some of its high-end magic to the mid-range market. We find out if this drive can cut it when surrounded by cut-price rivals |
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| Buying Tips : Cooling Bargains (Part 3) |
| Sealed water coolers are all the rage right now, and with better temperatures than heat sinks and a smaller footprint it's easy to see why. One of our favorites is the Asetek-made Antec Kúhler H2O. This $80.93 device can mount to almost any case with a 120 mm fan mount and provides great performance |
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| Buying Tips : Cooling Bargains (Part 2) |
| If you are looking for quality all-rounder for a good price, the Akasa Raptor is a tough case to beat. Mixing contemporary USB 3.0 connectivity with handsome understated looks that should appeal to everyone, this case is perfect for a low-key and quiet office machine. |
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| Buying Tips : Cooling Bargains (Part 1) |
| Good cooling is essential for all PCs, and it's important to ensure your system has enough to keep it happy during intensive tasks. All too many PCs come with poorly ventilated micro-ATX chassis coupled to anaemic stock Intel or AMD coolers which can result in components running at close to their maximum allowable temperatures. |
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| Buying Tips : High-Capacity External Data Storage |
| Hard drives have come a long way since IBM introduced the RAMAC 305 system back in 1956. This, the first hard drive, was the size of two fridges, cost $50.000 and stored just 5MB of data. In the five decades since, the world has gone digital and hard drives have gone mainstream. |
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| 100 Ways To Speed Up Windows (Part 4) |
| By changing your DNS server to OpenDNS, you're able to browse the Internet more quickly and safely. Visit www.opendns.com/start to sign up for a free basic plan. |
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| 100 Ways To Speed Up Windows (Part 3) |
| Windows 7 keeps files on your last 50 crashes. However, if you'll never look at this data it's a waste of hard drive space, so you're better off getting rid of it. Type regedit into the Start menu and launch the executable. |
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| 100 Ways To Speed Up Windows (Part 2) |
| To select a taskbar app from the keyboard, hold the Windows key and press one of the numbers across the top of your keyboard. Press 1 to launch the first icon, 2 for the second, 3 for the third, and soon up tool that represents 10, so you can have items open in seconds. |
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| 100 Ways To Speed Up Windows (Part 1) |
| Your time is precious. that's why we hate to see windows consume more of it than necessary whether your OS has become increasingly slow, or you just spend too much time doing simple tasks, the following 100 tips and tricks will give your productivity a welcome kick in the pants. |
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| ASUS Crosshair V Formula-Z - A Breath Of Fresh Air |
| With all the attention being piled on Intel and their Ivy Bridge motherboards, it is easy to forget what AMD has been brewing. Their Bulldozer or the 900FX series of processors hasn't exactly taken off the way they wanted to, but that hasn't stopped ASUS from launching one of their newest AMD- based ROG motherboards in the Crosshair V Formula-Z. |
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| Brother MFC- J5910DW - For All Your Printing Needs |
| The MFC-J5910DW's large size is for a good reason. Not only does it do printing, scanning, copying and fax, the girth it also due to the fact that the MFC-J591ODW is capable of printing out media in A3 size. |
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| Canon Pixma MX- 435 Office |
| The Canon Pixma MX-435 Office is an all-in-one device that provides scan, print, copy and fax functionality with the addition of both ADF (Automatic Document Feeder) and wireless connectivity within a unit measuring 458 x 385 x 200mm |
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| Windows Vista : Internet Me (part 1) - Share an Internet Connection |
| There are several downsides to Internet connection sharing. For one, it can be temperamental and frustrating to set up. Performance and security leave a lot to be desired, and it tends to be slow. Also, one computer (the gateway) must always be on for the others to have Internet access, and that computer must have two network adapters. |
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| Discover Great & Low-Cost Mac Products – November 2012 |
| Read Later downloads the full text of the articles you’ve saved, as well as any folders (for Instapaper) or tags (for Pocket). Click a folder or tag, or your main read-later queue, and you’ll see a list of its saved articles. Click an article to display it in the pane to the right. A full-screen mode lets you read without distractions, and you can even toggle the visibility of the folder and article lists, leaving nothing but the article. |
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| Scan 3XS Graphite LG5 - Netbook-Sized Gaming Laptop |
| Scan’s 3XS Graphite LG5 isn’t just your average gaming laptop though. It’s part of the company’s new range of gaming laptops based on the popular Clevo bare bones chassis. The Graphite LG5 is Scan’s 11.6in ultra-portable model, which is fully configurable on the company’s website. |
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