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Top 5 Myths about Mac

Posted by kianyang on Friday, September 26th, 2008

Quite possibly one of the most talked about topic when it comes to a Mac. Here are 5 popular myths about the Mac and my personal take on them.
5. Macs are difficult to operate.
This is probably a less common myth that I hear nowadays but nonetheless there are still some people who believes that Macs [...]

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Posted by kianyang on Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

Hello and welcome to my blog on Macs, design trends and interesting tech news from around. This blog will  also serve as my test bed to master CSS and the WordPress engine. The template you see on this site was based off of WordPressFun from Maleika Attawel (http://rockatee.com/) which was featured on Smashing Magazine. Simply [...]

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Archive for the ‘MacOS X’ Category

Free CodeWeavers Crossover Mac Professional Version !

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

The folks over at CodeWeavers are giving out FREE LICENSES for their excellent CrossOver Mac / Linux Professional Edition (worth USD$70!!) as part of their Great American Lame Duck Presidential Challenge which met one of its goal. The offer is only valid for one day, today 28 October 2008 23:59 (Midnight) Central Standard Time only.
CrossOver [...]

Screen Sharing Desktops from Leopard using VNC

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

I’ve been using Chicken of the VNC for a while now but just found out recently that Leopard has a VNC client built into it known as Screen Sharing. Screen Sharing isn’t a standalone application but rather part of the Connect to Server utility in Finder.

Screen Captures in Leopard

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

Leopard offers several useful built-in utility to grab a screenshot which I find that I’ve been doing a lot lately. So mastering these shortcuts will really save you time. Lets start with the basics.

Fun Mac Tip - Slow Motion Dock Animation

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

If you like watching the Dock’s Genie effects, here’s how to make them animate in slow motion.
1. First make sure you’ve turned on your Genie effect for minimizing Windows.
2. Now hold the Shift key while minimizing or maximizing a Window and you can see its Genie effects being animated in slow motion.
3. This trick also [...]

OpenOffice 3.0

Monday, October 13th, 2008

Looks like our favorite open sourced office suite has finally hit the big 3. The release of OpenOffice.org 3.0 was just recently announced on the official website. While I managed to download it from one of their Japanese mirrors two days before the official announcement , it seems that the official site is struggling to [...]

Placing Dashboard Widgets on your Desktop

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

Ever wished that you could place some of your favorite dashboard widget on your desktop ? Well, actually you could. Apple has a documented feature that allows you to enable the development mode of the Dashboard that lets you drag widgets to your desktop.