Video Tutorials, News and Insights for Apple Users

Apple news was dominated this week by the release of a beta version of the next version of Safari. This new version features faster JavaScript, the programming language behind dynamic elements all over the Web. It also has a 3D view of favorite sites, cover flow view for history and bookmarks, and is integrated with [...] (Read More, No Replies)

Have some spare time while waiting for a bus or in line at the bank? Explore the entire planet with the iPhone version of Google Earth. This free app is a lighter version of the Mac application of the same name, but there is something very satisfying about knowing you have satellite images of the [...] (Read More, No Replies)

Sick of having Time Machine backup every hour? Want to only have it backup when you want? Simply turn off Time Machine in the preferences. You’ll still be able to use the menu bar drop-down menu to “Back Up Now” whenever you want. (Read More, 3 Replies)

There are many Unix tools to re-encode and convert video and audio. But you have to really know what you are doing to use them. Fortunately, FFMpegX provides a great Mac interface to those tools. We use it here at MacMost to encode all of our video episodes into mp4 format. You can use it [...] (Read More, No Replies)

Take a look at some of the new features in Safari 4, including Top Sites, cover flow for your history, and smart search. Video Transcript (Click to Expand) Hi, this is Gary with MacMost Now. On today's episode let's take a look at the new Safari 4 Public Beta. So yesterday Apple released Safari 4 [...] (Read More, 6 Replies)

Use the Preview application that comes with Mac OS X to cut out a person or object from a photo and make the rest transparent. You can use this to make better images for social network profiles, Pages documents or Keynote presentations. Video Transcript (Click to Expand) On today's episode lets learn how to use [...] (Read More, 40 Replies)

You can use the Mac’s System Profiler to closely monitor your MacBook battery. You can view the charge capacity, current charge, age and current power use. You can use this to make adjustments to your behavior to get more life out of a charge. Video Transcript (Click to Expand) Gary Rosenzweig: Hi, this is Gary [...] (Read More, 9 Replies)