Mac OS X has many great features, but there’s always room for improvement. Many developers felt the same and created a bunch of great apps to enhance OS X’s capabilities. Here are our top 10 apps that can power up your Mac to the next level.
Cult of Mac has created a two minute video briefly demonstrating a bunch of new features in OS X Mountain Lion that Apple neglected to mention in their official overview. Check out the video above to see them all, but here are the most notable:
If you’ve been a long-time Mac user, sitting in front of a Windows machine can be quite confusing. In this instalment of our switching guide, I take a look at the Windows interface and translate between OS X and Windows 7.
Mac OS X Lion has officially gone on sale, but it’s a 3.6GB download that’s only available through the Mac App Store. Here are some simple suggestions to avoid chewing through all your monthly allowance while getting the latest Mac goodness.
UPDATE: The terminal command highlighted below was corrected, at the request of the blog author (and numerous commenters). Apologies for any confusion.Are you in the habit of leaving your digital desktop cluttered with temporary documents, images, and other files that you use once and—eventually—drag into the trash? Lifehacker reader Brian Aker uses a built-in feature of OS X to keep his desktop free of clutter. Using a single terminal command, he creates a symbolic “Tmp” folder inside his home folder that the system automatically cleans out at every reboot. The command is (replacing yourusername with the correct user: ln -s /tmp /Users/yourusername/TmpWith the link in place (and dragged into the Finder menu), it’s easy to save one-use documents into that /tmp folder from anywhere. Want a similar self-cleaning temporary folder in Windows? Give Adam’s Belvedere self-cleaning software a spin. How to Not Keep a Cluttered Desktop [Brian "Krow" Aker's Idle Thoughts]
