How to determine the Serial Number of your Mac

This very brief guide will show you the fastest way to find out what the serial number of your Mac is. Read more

How to magnify Dock icons even when magnification is disabled

By now you certainly know that the Dock can be set to auto-magnify when you hover the cursor over any of its icons. And you also know that the magnification can be disabled.

But did you know you can keep magnification disabled, and still be able to zoom in (magnify) your Dock icons? In typical Apple fashion, it’s painfully simple - just hold down the shift and ctrl keys while moving your cursor over the dock. That’s it!

Using Templates in Pages

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This brief tutorial will guide you through using the templates included in Pages, a part of the iWord ‘09 suite. Using Pages is a great way to enhance your business portfolio and create personal cards and more! Read more

How to permanently stop Dock icons from bouncing

Even if you’ve set your Dock preferences not to animate when you click them, some applications insist on bouncing to get your attention. This brief tutorial will show you how to disable that behavior. Read more

Safari 4 out of beta

Amidst all the news out of WWDC ‘09 today (the new iPhone 3G S, iPhone 3.0, Snow Leopard etc) you may have missed the announcement that Safari 4 has left its beta stage and is now final. You can read more about “the fastest Internet browser” and all of its features here.

How to set alarms and timers on your Mac

I’ve tried out at least a dozen different “Alarm Clock” programs for OS X. I finally found the perfect one in a program aptly titled Alarm Clock. This brief tutorial will guide you through setting up and using Alarm Clock. Read more

How to create a PDF of any document in OS X

You don’t need Adobe Acrobat to create a PDF file in OS X. It’s actually very simple to created PDF’s of any of your documents (even pictures) on your Mac. Read more

Critical Mac OS X Java Vulnerabilities

As reported by Slashdot, OS X is still vulnerable to a security flaw via Java. According to bikemonkey:

(this vulnerability allows) malicious code to escape the Java sandbox and run arbitrary commands with the permissions of the executing user. This may result in untrusted Java applets executing arbitrary code merely by visiting a web page hosting the applet. The issue is trivially exploitable.

It is strongly suggested that you disable Java applets in your browsers and disable Open “safe” files after downloading in Safari.

There’s a proof of concept here which will execute /usr/bin/say and ‘read’ you a message - showing that any file you have permission to run, someone else can run too, just by embedding Java on a web page.

How to make Safari’s Private Browsing feature actually private

If you’ve been using Safari’s Private Browsing feature to keep your web-tracks hidden, it might come as a surprise to you that you are leaving a very visible record of the sites you’ve been visiting. This tutorial will show you how to remove those records. Read more

How to change the screenshot file format in OS X

This brief tutorial will show you how to change the default file format for screenshot (which is .png) to .jpg, .gif or even .pdf. Read more

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