The Mighty Mouse has an awful default button mapping. First off, both right and left button are assigned to left-click (primary). Secondly, for some inexplicable reason, clicking the scroll wheel brings up Dashboard. Third, I find the scrolling to be much to slow for my needs.
To fix these problems and any other issues you have [...]

So you just bought the wonderfully tiny MacBook Air and now it won’t turn on, or maybe it doesn’t want to charge the non-replaceable battery. Either way, you probably need to reset the PMU. How do you reset the PMU on your MacBook Air?
In order to reset the PMU of your MacBook Air [...]

I have a love hate relationship with my mighty mouse. I’m still not convinced the side buttons are useful, but the scroll click has successfully worked its way into my workflow.
I’ve had two mighty mouses in the past two months, and was about ready to give up on them all together. The scroll wheel got [...]

The other day, I decided that I wanted to recover the hard drive from my old and broken iBook G4. Some of you may be thinking that since the MacBook has an easily accessible hard drive compartment so the iBook must have one as well, I wish this were true. In order to [...]

Wired’s How-To Wiki recently put up an article on how to speed up your Mac. A lot of it is just regular maintenance such as deleting unused applications and clearing the caches of your web browsers and uninstalling plug-ins that aren’t often used, but there are a few tips in there that stand out [...]

One of the major draws of the iPhone/iPod Touch is its flick and scroll touchscreen capabilities. I have often wondered, “Why can’t Apple release this for our computers with a simple software/firmware update?”. Apple still has not provided us with such a solution, but Marc Moini has.
Smart Scroll is a great application that makes inertial [...]

You might be confused by the title of this post, you might be thinking, “I thought that when I close the lid, my computer just goes to sleep and that was that.” , well you’re right. But what you may not be aware of is the fact that there are 2 types of sleep: sleep, [...]

Every Windows laptop I’ve ever encountered has the ability to click with the trackpad turned on by default; Macs, on the other hand, come with this feature disabled by default. I find this feature to be extremely annoying because it tends to lead to a lot of misclicks, but I can see how it can [...]

A partition is a division of your hard drive. What it does is it takes one part of your hard drive and turns it into another virtual hard drive of its own. Say you have a 120 GB hard drive. You could partition it into a 40 GB drive and a [...]

File this in the same folder as two fingered scrolling. To use this function, place two fingers on the track pad and click whatever you wish to right click. To activate it, go to System Preferences -> Keyboard & Mouse -> Trackpad, then check “For secondary clicks, place two fingers on the trackpad then click [...]