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 [...]

This is the same computer I have and I must say, it is a phenomenal machine. At this price (exactly the same as the Stanford employee discount) I can safely say that you will not be dissatisfied. Keep in mind though, this is probably an indicator that Apple is about to come out with a [...]

This is for those of you (like me) who tend to scratch disc media. To do this, you need a copy of Leopard, an external hard drive or old iPod (more than 6.4 GB) and Disk Utility (you have this, don’t worry).
First, insert the Leopard install DVD. Then open Disk utility. Click “Mac OS X [...]

If you have an iPod Video with a broken hard drive or just want to upgrade to more energy efficient and more durable Flash memory, then Tarkan has just what you need. It’s a straightforward operation that shouldn’t take you more than 20 minutes. Here’s what you’ll need:

1 Compact Flash card of any size (No [...]

 Have you ever been doing a presentation in front of a large audience when all of a sudden, Front Row activates because some wiseguy snuck in an Apple Remote? It’s an embarrassing prank that I’m sure has happened at least once to every Macbook using teacher on the planet. You may have wondered to [...]

Adam Pash, over at Lifehacker. He says that it’s almost as easy as installing it on a Mac. To perform the installation, first you need to mess with the BIOS settings to match those found in the pictures he posted, then you torrent a file called “Kalyway Leopard 10.5.1 SSE2 SSE3″ [...]

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Say you want to move massive amounts of data in between 2 or more computers; a simple way to do this is to hold “T” while booting your mac. This will abort the normal startup screen and replace it with a giant FireWire logo. Once in this state, your $2000 computer becomes a $100 external [...]

For those who have been waiting anxiously for Macworld and updates to the Mac Pros or Xserves, wait no more as Apple has released them already. Now the Mac Pros by default have 8 cores (as do Xserves) and 320 Gigabyte hard drives.

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