Monthly Archives: January 2009
Watching AVIs & WMVs with QuickTime
If you’ve had your Macintosh for a while, you’ve undoubtedly run into the occasional video on the Web that you can’t view. They’re usually classic Windows formatted videos like AVI or WMV. This can be easily remedied and it doesn’t even involve running anything other than QuickTime to watch the videos. Continue reading
What is Exposé?
Exposé is a feature of Mac OS X that allows you to see all of your open windows at any time. All you have to do is press the function key labeled with the Exposé icon on your keyboard and all of your windows will slide around to reveal other windows behind them – shrinking when necessary. It also dims the desktop so that the windows really pop out from the background. You can then move your pointer over one to see the title of that window. Clicking while over a window will switch to that window and every window will resize itself back to normal and slide back to where it was. Continue reading
Conficker Worm Infects 3.5M Windows PCs So Far
F-Secure, a security firm based in Finland, conservatively estimates that 3.5 million Windows PCs have been infected with a new worm called “Downadup” or “Conficker.” It is infecting Windows computers at a rate of more than 1 million in the past 24 hours. Continue reading
Mike Huckabee Switches to Mac; Praises Apple
Mike Huckabee, a former governor of Arkansas and current personality for Fox News program “Huckabee”, has recently switched to the Mac after 22 years of using a PC. Continue reading
Upgrading Mac OS X
Regardless of what your experiences have been with Windows in the past, traditionaly upgrading the OS of a Mac has resulted in a faster computer. Apple has consistently made noticable performance improvements with each new release of Mac OS X. Continue reading