Mac

Accessibility | Zoom It & Siri

by Maximilian Lemos on January 11, 2012

Apple goes above and beyond when it comes to helping the visually impaired. With brilliant accessibility tools across all of their product lines, they are looking out for most everyone. In fact one could even say the greatest accessibility tool is Siri. Having a personal assistant to help you perform tasks on your phone without the need of even [...]

Choosing the Right Display for your Mac

by Maximilian Lemos on August 31, 2011

In most cases I would disagree with the old adage “bigger is better,” but when it comes to screen real-estate I can’t get enough. I remember a day when I was happy with my 15 inch desktop display, tootling around in windows 95, blissfully ignorant, doing whatever it is that a 12 year-old does on [...]

Lion: Hate your Scrolling, Love the Dashboard

by Maximilian Lemos on July 28, 2011

With Lion on the loose for just over a week now, I wanted to give my initial thoughts, as well as speculate to some degree as to what Lion will look like in the weeks ahead. The Dashboard I would like to be the first (or at least the first person in my circles) to [...]

Protecting Your Mac from Malware

by Wyn Matthews on June 29, 2011

Understanding Malware threats to your Mac As a Mac user, one of the things you get to congratulate yourself about is choosing a computing world that is free from viruses. It’s true. In “the wild” there aren’t any Mac Viruses. But there is Mac Malware. The thing about Malware is that it can’t install itself. [...]

A PC user forced to work on a Mac | Max discovers the SPACES feature

by Maximilian Lemos on May 5, 2011

The irony of this post is I am about to praise a Mac, while writing on my PC. Traditionally, I have always been a Windows person. Every computer-bearing member of my immediate family also owns and uses a PC, with the exception of my brother who recently made the shift to Mac (and he loves [...]

Which costs more, a Mac or a PC?

Post image for Which costs more, a Mac or a PC?

by Chris Foley on March 22, 2010

From the EXCELLENT Macgasm.net Blog Author Credit: Gerard Lagana In this on-going debate of whether a Windows computer is cheaper than a Mac computer, you need to take two things into account.  First, the upfront cost of each of the computers. Second, the total cost of ownership, or TCO for short.  For the sake of this [...]

← Previous Entries