You may have noticed the new logo on the site. I’m happy to announce MacTips.org is renaming itself to VistaTips.org. We’ve certainly had fun covering Mac products the past few years, but we believe the future is with Microsoft.
Sure, Macs are “cool” now, but what about 5 years from now? We just don’t see a [...]

I used to play a lot of flash games and watch a lot of flash movies when I was a kid. But it seemed the only way that I could play them was through my browser (or by buying Flash 8). Then I discovered that you can download the flash files by right [...]

I recently picked up a drawing tablet (impulse buy), but I find that many of the drawing programs that are currently available are not specifically meant to be used with tablets. The brushes don’t behave like real brushes and the speed of the pen has no impact on the thickness of [...]

While writing the ScreenFlow review I needed the ScreenFlow icon to include in the post. Unfortunately Google didn’t seem to understand what ScreenFlow Icon was. So I was left trying to extract the icon from the Application.
Turns out this is extremely easy. Open Finder, and Copy (Command+C) the file/application/folder you’d like to extract an icon [...]

A couple weeks ago I released the new MacTips Widget, and it has been extremely popular. Its hovered around position #15 on Apple’s Top 50 Widgets. This has brought thousands of new Mac visitors to the site, so I’d like to officially welcome all of you!
Unfortunately, there was an annoying bug in the widget that [...]

My absolute favorite advance in web browsing technology over the past decade or so is the idea of single-window browsing, or at least of multiple tabs in a single window. Just about every browser out there now allows you to keep all the different web pages you have open in a single window as multiple [...]

Vara Software has allowed me to giveaway one free copy of ScreenFlow to one lucky MacTips user. See the bottom of the post for details.
Why is ScreenFlow the killer screencasting app?
ScreenFlow is the application I’ve been waiting for on the Mac. I’ve been using it recently for the MacTips Videos and I love it! It’s [...]

Deleting songs from your iTunes library is usually very easy. You can either select a song, Control-Click on it and then select “Delete”, or you can simply press Delete from the keyboard, and iTunes will bring up a little window asking if you are sure that you “want to remove the selected song from your [...]

I have always found the little button and microphone included on my iPhone headphones a really useful and thoughtful feature. I’ve always known that while listening to music the button could be used for pausing and playing the music, and pressing the button with a call coming in would answer the phone. However, while using [...]

I never knew you could drag items onto the Finder toolbar. So far I’ve been able to drag files, applications and folders.
This turns your finder into a second dock for quickly accessing frequently used items.

To do this, drag any item over the toolbar and hold it there for a second until the plus icon is [...]