Video Tutorials, News and Insights for Apple Users

The holiday season got off to a good start for Apple, with strong Black Friday sales. This was despite the fact that sales deals offered by Apple on that day were no more special than those in previous years. One interesting addition to the Apple offerings is a gift card good for the purchase of [...] (Read More, No Replies)

Ever copy something to the clipboard to use later, and then when you go to use it you find it is no longer in the clipboard? The usually happens when you do another copy and paste in the meanwhile. But now to get back that original clipping, it is difficult or even impossible? Jumpcut solves [...] (Read More, No Replies)

This app is both cool and bizarre at the same time. Ocarina turns your iPhone into a musical instrument, like a flute. You actually blow on the microphone and press on little holes in the screen. And amazingly it works and you can produce something that sounds like music — probably real music if you [...] (Read More, No Replies)

Want to quickly force-quit an application without bringing up the Force Quit window? Just hold down the Shift key and select the Apple menu. Instead of seeing Force Quit… you will see Force Quit followed by the current application name. It even works in the Finder to force quit the Finder when it becomes unresponsive. (Read More, 1 Reply)

Lots of news items about Mac viruses this week, despite the fact that no new virus was involved in any of the news. It seems that an old tech note about using multiple anti-virus software on Macs was taken as an official word that Apple is now recommending the use of anti-virus software on OS [...] (Read More, 2 Replies)

Hidden in Mac OS X is the Archive Utility, a handy little application for compressing and decompressing files and folders into .zip, .cpio and .cpgz formats. Video Transcript (Click to Expand) Hi, this is Gary with MacMost Now. On today's episode let's talk about a little-know application in Mac OS X called the Archive Utility. [...] (Read More, 26 Replies)

Can’t view PDF files in Firefox? A certain PDF doesn’t look right in Preview? Can’t fill out a PDF form and save it? Take a look at these three PDF problems that Mac users run in to and how to solve them. Video Transcript (Click to Expand) Hi, this is Gary with MacMost Now. Today [...] (Read More, 94 Replies)

New Macs no longer come with telephone modems, making it hard to use them to send faxes. But two services allow you to send faxes for free or at very low cost. There are ways to receive faxes as email as well. Video Transcript (Click to Expand) Hi, this is Gary with MacMost Now. Today [...] (Read More, 2 Replies)