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Reviving a Hard Drive for Use With Your Mac
If you have an extra hard drive that you would like to put back into use with your Mac, but you're not sure if it's up to the task, this guide will take you through the process of testing, repairing, and stressing the drive to ensure it's in good shape.
Reader's Choice Awards 2010: Let the Voting Begin for the Best Mac Applications
Reader's Choice Awards 2010: It's February, and that means it's time to start voting for the Reader's Choice Awards 2010. We made it through the nomination process last month, and now with the top nominees from each category determined, it's time to let us know which ones deserve to be this year's winners of About.com's Computing Channel Reader's Choice Awards.
Readers' Choice Awards 2011 - Let the Voting Begin for the Best Mac Applications
Readers' Choice Awards 2011 - With the top finalists selected, it's time to vote to decide the winners of the Readers' Choice Awards 2011. There will be one winner from each of the seven categories for the About: Macs portion of the Readers' Choice Awards.
Copy Tunes From Your iPod to Your Mac
It's easy to copy media files, music, audio books, podcasts, movies, and videos from your iPod to your Mac. Focus on Macs shows you how.
Using Boot Camp Assistant to Partition Your Hard Drive
Boot Camp Assistant, part of Apple's Boot Camp, is the primary application for getting an Intel-based Mac ready to run Microsoft Windows. Using Boot Camp Assistant, you can create two partitions on your hard drive, one for Mac OS X and one for Windows.
Partition Your Mac's Hard Drive With Disk Utility
Disk Utility is the application of choice for partitioning a hard drive. Disk Utility is straightforward and easy to use, it provides a nice graphical interface, and best of all, it’s free. Disk Utility is included with the Mac OS.
Disk Utility - Add, Delete, and Resize Existing Volumes
The version of Disk Utility bundled with OS X 10.5 or later has a few notable features, specifically, the ability to add, delete, and resize hard drive partitions without erasing data. If you need to resize a partition, or you would like to split a partition into multiple partitions, you can do it with Disk Utility, without losing the data that’s currently stored on the drive.
Creating SSL Certificates for Lion Server
To get the most out of Lion Server, you need to use SSL certificates. You can choose to pay for signed certificates, or create your own self-signed certificates. This guide will take you through the process of creating and managing your own SSL certificates.
Changing Your Lion Server's Hostname
Your Lion Server's hostname should be something memorable, as well as short. This guide will take you though the process of changing the hostname of your server.
Set Up OS X Lion Server - Open Directory and Network Users
Open Directory is an important service that you should probably be running on your Lion Server. Setting up Open Directory is much easier with Lion than with previous versions of OS X Server. This guide will walk you through the setup process.
Copy iPod Music to Your Mac Using OS X Lion and iTunes 10
Copy iPod music to your Mac: This guide will take you through the process of copying music, movies, and videos to your Mac using OS X Lion and iTunes 10 or later.
Readers' Choice Awards Winners 2012 - The Best of the Best in 8 Mac Categories
The Readers' Choice Awards 2012 winners have been decided. This prestigious award is being given to eight winners in Mac-related categories. The voting went non-stop for four weeks, and now it's time to tell you who the winners are.
Readers' Choice Awards 2012 - Time to Vote
It's time to vote in the Mac edition of the Readers' Choice Awards 2012. There are 8 Mac-related categories in this year's awards, and only you can pick the winners.
FileVault 2 - Using Disk Encryption With OS X Lion
FileVault 2 brings full disk encryption to your Mac's startup drive. With your drive protected with XTS-AES 128 encryption, you can rest easy knowing that it will be very difficult for anyone to gain access to your personal data.
Using Boot Camp Assistant to Install Windows on Your Mac
Boot Camp Assistant 4.x allows you to partition your Mac's drive and install Windows 7. This step-by-step guide will take you through the process, and point out a few pitfalls to avoid along the way.
Disk Utility: Using Disk Utility to Repair Hard Drives and Disk Permissions
Disk Utility, one of the many applications included with OS X, allows you to work with your hard drives. You can use Disk Utility not only to erase, format, and partition a drive, but also to repair problems that may crop up from time to time.
Which Mac Browser Is the Best?
Best Mac Browser: I’m often asked which is the best Mac browser to use. My answer is always the same: It’s the one that you like the best. Many individuals want a more quantifiable answer, though, so to see if we can put some measurements behind browser performance, we decided to perform a Mac browser benchmark test.
Share Windows 7 Files with OS X Lion
Windows 7 and a Mac running OS X Lion are on very good speaking terms. In fact, sharing your PC's files with your Mac is as easy as a few clicks and selecting the folders on the PC you want to share. This guide will have you sharing files quicker than you can reboot a computer.
Best of 2000s: Apple's 10 Most Unforgettable Moments
Apple had a wide range of hits in the past decade, as well as a few misses. Together they make up the best and the worst of Apple's performance in the 2000s.
Apple's Decade: A Look Back at Apple Through the 2000s
Apple's Decade: About: Macs takes a look back at the events and products that defined the last decade for Apple. Just three years before the start of the decade, Apple was being written off as a computer company that was sliding into oblivion. In a relatively short period of time, Apple was able to pick itself up, become profitable, and then dominate industries that barely knew it existed a few years earlier. That makes the 2000s Apple's Decade.
Share OS X Lion Files With Windows 7 PCs
Sharing OS X Lion files with a Windows 7 PC is a simple process when you follow our step-by-step guide. Once you complete the setup process, you will be able to share folders you have specified, as well as gain access to all of your user files, if you wish.
How to Share Windows 7 Files With OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
Sharing files between a PC running Windows 7 and a Mac running OS X 10.6 is one of the easiest cross-platform file sharing activities, primarily because both Windows 7 and Snow Leopard speak SMB (Server Message Block), the native file sharing protocol Microsoft uses in Windows 7.
Mac Browser Faceoff 2011 - Which Is the Best Mac Browser?
It's time once again for a Mac browser faceoff, to determine which browser is the best one to use on your Mac. The question of which is the best Mac browser comes up so often that we try to have Mac browser faceoffs whenever there is a major upgrade among the leading Mac browsers.
Virtualization of Leopard and Snow Leopard Using VMware Fusion
You can create a VMware Fusion virtual machine to run Leopard or Snow Leopard clients. All you need is VMware Fusion 4.1 or later, a Leopard or Snow Leopard install DVD, and enough hard drive space for the installation.
Back Up Your Startup Disk Using Disk Utility
You can create a replica of your startup disk that is not only an exact copy, but bootable as well. This is the ideal type of backup to perform before updating any system software.