I use Sleep every night to turn off my iMac without shutting it down. But my iMac suffers from crashes after waking up from sleep constantly. Kernel Panics and the other processor crashes occurred after each time I woke up from sleeping. After researching and troubleshooting, I’ve come up with a couple tips to avoid [...]

I have just discovered that when you hold down the ‘Option’ key and the ‘Delete’ key, it completely erases that last word. It can be very useful when writing in a word processor, blogging, and basically everywhere else in Mac OS X.
I don’t know wether this is a really basic tip, but I just found [...]

Grab is a very popular application used to take screenshots, and includes very cool settings like “Timed Screen”. But it seemed awkward to have to go all the way through the utilities to find Grab, and another downside is that you could see Grab icon in the dock in your screenshot.

Now, you can take screenshots [...]

As some of our Macs get a bit too slow to use and become completely obsolete, what are we supposed to do with them? Well, here’s a simple way to get rid of your used mac, and make a couple bucks while your at it.
TUAW has posted an excellent article entitled “How to sell a [...]

I have used this great feature inside Mac OS X for a while, and it has to be another one of my favorites. To setup your system to zoom in and out, just go to system preferences, go to Universal Access, and turn Zoom “On”. Now, hold down (option + command + =) to zoom [...]

Using the control key, and several different function keys (F2, F3, F4, F8), you can navigate through many key parts of Mac OS X with your keyboard alone.
Holding down the control key with:

the F2 key enables you to navigate with the left side of the menu bar.
the F3 key enables you to navigate the dock, [...]

Lately, I have been trying to improve the look of my desktop. One of the things I did was getting rid of those icons on the desktop. Since I do not use the “Macintosh HD” and “iPod” icons regularly, I have gotten rid of them to make my desktop appear more simple. And I got [...]

Here’s a short tips, but a very handy one as well. In the Finder, just hold down the command key and click on the white button in the top-right corner of the window. In doing so, you can cycle through all of the variations of the toolbar size and also toggle the icons and text [...]

Apple has made it possible for Mighty Mouse owners to use the scroll-ball to perform many tasks in certain applications. Some of these tips also work with other mice from 3rd party companies.
In Safari, when viewing a quicktime movie, just scroll vertically to fast-forward or rewind the movie. Or in iTunes, scroll horizontally above the [...]

For those of you that are constantly IMing, an alternative to using abbreviations is to actually let iChat type the whole word for you. With Tiger’s built-in dictionary, in iChat you can start typing a word and hit the “Escape” key. Then, iChat will display a list of possible words to use. Tiger’s buillt in [...]