Tag Archives: mac
A guide to free antivirus applications on the Mac
A lot has been written arguing for or against the need for an antivirus application on the Mac. Due to their small numbers, Mac users have been lucky to go about their business with almost no fear of being targeted by malware and viruses. It’s called security through obscurity, and it’s a sort of security [...]
Posted in Product Guides Also tagged apple, applications, budget, ClamXav, free, iAntivirus, Mac OS X, macintosh, malware, open source, security, Sophos, technology, viruses 1 Comment
A guide to distraction free writing applications
Technology has provided us with the capacity to greatly improve our productivity, but has it also somehow impaired our ability to concentrate? This has been the subject of some controversy of late, and it’s no wonder that a niche market of word processing applications has sprouted up claiming to remove distractions so you can better [...]
Posted in Product Guides Also tagged applications, apps, Bean, budget, concentration, DarkRoom, free, Ommwriter, Ommwriter Dana, open source, productivity, Windows, word processing, work, WriteMonkey, WriteRoom, writing 1 Comment
How to Rip a DVD (Mac)
So iTunes offers us a very easy and simple way to convert our music on CDs into digital files. But what if you’re interested in converting your movies or television shows on DVD into digital files? Poke around in iTunes for a few minutes and you’ll quickly find there is no such option. The simple [...]
Posted in Tutorials, Videos Also tagged backup DVDs, digital video, dvd, fairmount, handbrake, howto, iphone, ipod touch, open source, rip movies, technology, tutorial, video, vlc 4 Comments
Move Your Time Machine Backup to a New Drive