Here are the most useful keyboard shortcuts in Mountain Lion (and all OS X versions, starting with OS X 10.2 Jaguar), plus a selection of trackpad swipes, flicks, taps and pinches.
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3 Ways Apple Sets Itself Apart from the Competition
Tim Bajarin is the president of Creative Strategies Inc., a technology industry analysis and market intelligence firm in Silicon Valley. He contributes to the “Big Picture” opinion column that appears every Monday on …
Last Chance for Your Apple WWDC Predictions
Forty-eight hours from now, Apple’s WWDC keynote will be nearly over. I’ll be there in person at the Moscone Center, and I hope you’ll join me by attending our liveblog coverage, where I’ll report the news as fast as I possibly …
Quick Cuts: Video Showcases Almost Every Apple Product in 30 Seconds
Boing Boing’s Rob Beschizza strung together this great 30-second video of just about every one of Apple’s hardware and software designs over the years. It’s perfect for Apple fans and people with short attention sp—oh man, …
Want a Good Deal on an iPad? Work at Apple for a Few Months
New Apple CEO Tim Cook is pleased with his company’s recent performance – so pleased, in fact, that he reportedly told employees at a “Town Hall” meeting that they’d soon be eligible for deep discounts on iPads and Macs.
The …
Steve Jobs: Not a Gamer, but a Game Changer
Steve Jobs was many things, but if we’re being honest, a gamer wasn’t one of them. It was a running a joke in enthusiast gamer circles, that until the iPhone came along, the Mac was where games went to die. Oh, you can dredge up the odd games-related interview here and there, where some diehard Apple enthusiast managed to corner Jobs …
How to Make Your OS X Lion Purr Like a Snow Leopard
I know, you generally love Lion, but you also sometimes hate Lion and wish it would just settle down and respect your commands, several of which probably involve getting it to behave like its predecessor. We can help, or at least point out some of your options, say you’re partial to Apple’s prior cat.
The following tip sheet isn’t an …
How I Dislike Thee, OS X Lion, Let Me Count the Ways
So you’ve got Lion, or maybe you don’t, because you’re still downloading it. It’s over 4GB after all, and trying to grab it over the freebie Wi-Fi connection at the coffee shop down the street was, you know, maybe not your finest moment.
But let’s say you’ve managed to pull it down, somehow, and as Adele might say, you’re rolling in …
OS X Lion Likely Out Next Week, New MacBook Airs to Follow?
If you’re one of a handful of lucky dev folks who got their hands on the OS X Lion upgrade early, nice job!
But for the general public, 9to5 Mac and Apple Insider have both gotten confirmation from several Apple retail employees that there’s an overnight scheduled on July 13th to freshen up their stores, likely indicating a July 14th …
How to Burn an OS X Lion Boot Disc
When Apple’s OS X Lion debuts in July, it’ll only be available through Apple’s Mac App Store. No retail copies, no white-edged Apple-gray install DVDs—just an install file you’ll purchase and pull down by conjuring the App Store from your Mac’s dock and perusing “New and Noteworthy” for a picture of Apple’s new tawny-maned kitty. Oh, …
Fight Mac Malware with Free ‘Avast!’ Antivirus Software
It didn’t even take eight hours before malware makers bypassed Apple’s long-awaited security update intended to patch MacDefender. As we wrote yesterday, the update was good for fending off earlier variants, but it wasn’t without its flaws.
So if you’re keen on taking extra precaution, software developer Avast! — who have …
Apple’s MacDefender Malware Patch Bypassed Already
Apple’s battle against Mac malware has taken a predictable turn, as a new threat bypasses the MacDefender patch that Apple just issued.
On Tuesday, Apple issued a security update that was supposed to block the MacDefender malware and its variants. But according to Ed Bott at ZDNet, malware makers have already worked around Apple’s …