Video Tutorials, News and Insights for Apple Users

There are some odd and unusual things on your Mac that you can do with the Terminal. You can create banners, use your screen saver as your desktop background, look at interesting, daily calendars, and play hidden games. Video Transcript (Click to Expand) Hi, this is Gary with MacMost Now. On today's episode, let's look [...] (Read More, 12 Replies)

If you are an advanced user with trouble, or someone who like to tinker with Mac OS X settings, then take a look at OnyX. This free utility gives you easy access to Terminal commands and hidden preferences. Video Transcript (Click to Expand) There are dozens of applications out there that are utilities allow you [...] (Read More, 4 Replies)

You can launch an application using the Finder, Dock, keyboard, Terminal and even your voice. See how many of these you knew about. (Read More, 12 Replies)

You can customize the top of every Mac OS X Finder window adding useful buttons that perform common tasks. You can also add files, folders and applications to the toolbar. Video Transcript (Click to Expand) Hi this is Gary with MacMost Now. On today's episode, let's take a closer look at the finder toolbar. So [...] (Read More, 1 Reply)

There are four text editors you can use from the Terminal: Pico, Nano, Vi and Emacs. Each can be used to quickly edit text files. Learn how to access them and what makes them different. Video Transcript (Click to Expand) Hi. This is Gary with MacMost Now. Today’s episode let’s take a look at some [...] (Read More, 6 Replies)

Sometimes the Finder can fail you when you want to copy lots of files, like an entire CD or DVD. Learn how to use the Terminal to copy whole volumes with better error handling and reporting. Video Transcript (Click to Expand) Hi, this is Gary with MacMost Now. On today's episode, let's take a look [...] (Read More, 27 Replies)

How to use the built-in Mac OS X spell check in many applications like TextEdit, Mail and Safari. You can make it learn new words and reset your custom dictionary. Video Transcript (Click to Expand) Hi. This is Gary with MacMost Now. Today lets take a look at how we can use the almost ubiquitous [...] (Read More, 26 Replies)

Data Detectors allow you to turn addresses, phone numbers and dates in mail messages into Address Book contacts and iCal events. You can also turn selected text into to-do items or stickies. Video Transcript (Click to Expand) Hi! This is Gary with MacMost Now. Today let's talk about something called data detectors. Data detectors are [...] (Read More, 1 Reply)

Gary Rosenzweig takes a look at three methods of merging files inside of folders. You can use Apple’s FileMerge that comes with XCode, the ‘ditto’ command in Terminal or a variety of downloadable programs including File Synchronization. Video Transcript (Click to Expand) Hi. This is Gary with macmost.com. Today let's look at different methods for [...] (Read More, 4 Replies)

Gary Rosenzweig shows you how to find the largest files on your hard drive and clean them up to create more space. Video Transcript (Click to Expand) Hi, this is Gary Rosenzweig with MacMost Now. Today I'm going to show you how to find large files on your macs hard drive so you can clean [...] (Read More, 1 Reply)

Gary Rosenzweig of MacMost.com shows you the basics of using the Terminal application. Learn how to navigate, list files, rename, copy and delete. Also learn some shortcuts that experts use. Video Transcript (Click to Expand) Hi, this is Gary Rosenzweig. On the MacMost podcast I often show you how to do things using command line [...] (Read More, No Replies)

Gary Rosenzweig looks at using two Macs to connect to the Internet securely while traveling. Video Transcript (Click to Expand) Hi, this is Gary Rosenzweig. If you travel a lot with your laptop, you'll want to learn how to protect against having your data stolen when using public Wi-Fi. So let's get a little paranoid [...] (Read More, No Replies)