In this episode of Mac Tip Podcast; Boot keys for your Mac’s system startup Subscribe to this Show Download Episode: Click here Show Notes: Unlike PC’s, Mac’s have a very different Kind of bios called a Extensible Firmware Interface or EFI for short. This is a set of interfaces that defines how software will interface with future firmware. Intel developed EFI as a part of the Intel Boot Initiative program that began in 1998. This program was designed to modernize [...]…

I use an application called Appzapper, found at appzapper.com. this app allows you to get rid of the useless cruft that apps have left on mac, What Appzapper does is once you have dragged an app into the app; it preforms a scan the app to see whether there are any extra files that the app may have placed on your system when you launched or installed an app. Once the scan has been preformed, it allows you delete the cruft with a single click. It can't get any easier than that. But, some times what will happen is a file or app will be locked or protected, and will not allow you to remove it from your trash. Download Episode…

In this episode of Mac Tip Podcast; Crash Logs in Mac OS X Download Episode: Click here Sponsors: GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days. And by Hostgator with 99.9% uptime, 45 Day Money Back Guarantee and plans as low as $4.95. Visit Mactippodcast.com/hostgator for more Info Show Notes: Recently I had a problem with a game crashing. After I hit the OK button when trying to register the game the game would [...]…

In this episode of Mac Tip Podcast; Stop the Dock Icons from Bouncing Download Episode: Click here Sponsors: GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days. And by Hostgator with 99.9% uptime, 45 Day Money Back Guarantee and plans as low as $4.95. Visit Mactippodcast.com/hostgator for more Info Show Notes: The bouncing of an dock Icon is to notify you of an event, like some ones is trying to get a hold of you [...]…

In this episode of Mac Tip Podcast; Automatically Play Videos In QuickTime X Download Episode: Click here Sponsors: GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days. And by Hostgator with 99.9% uptime, 45 Day Money Back Guarantee and plans as low as $4.95. Visit Mactippodcast.com/hostgator for more Info Show Notes: One of the worst things about Quicktime (in my opinion) is that when I want to play a video it doesn’t play automatically play. [...]…

In this episode of Mac Tip Podcast; Is your Mac 64 bit Compatible or not? find out using the Command Line Download Episode: Click here Sponsors: GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days. Hostgator with 99.9% uptime, 45 Day Money Back Guarantee and plans as low as $4.95. Visit Mactippodcast.com/hostgator for more Info Show Notes: I’m getting ready to install snow leopard here in a few weeks after I back everything up and [...]…

In this episode of Mac Tip Podcast; Check your Macs uptime and reboot history Download Episode: Click here Sponsors: GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days. And by Hostgator with 99.9% uptime, 45 Day Money Back Guarantee and plans as low as $4.95. Visit Mactippodcast.com/hostgator for more Info Show Notes: Not to brag or anything, but unless I’ve run Software Update, I rarely have to reboot my Mac, this might not be that [...]…

In this episode of Mac Tip Podcast; Disabling Caps Lock Download Episode: Click here Sponsors: GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days. And by Hostgator with 99.9% uptime, 45 Day Money Back Guarantee and plans as low as $4.95. Visit Mactippodcast.com/hostgator for more Info Show Notes: I’m a terrible typist and once in a blue moon hit the Caps Lock key while aiming for something else. And on those extremely rare occasions where [...]…

In this episode of Mac Tip Podcast; Disable The File Extension Warning Download Episode: Click here Sponsors: GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days. And by Hostgator with 99.9% uptime, 45 Day Money Back Guarantee and plans as low as $4.95. Visit Mactippodcast.com/hostgator for more Info Show Notes: If you often find yourself changing file extensions, As I do, you might be tired of the annoying “Are you sure you want to change [...]…

In this episode of Mac Tip Podcast; Moving and Sizing the Dock with your mouse Download Episode: Click here Sponsors: GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days. And by Hostgator with 99.9% uptime, 45 Day Money Back Guarantee and plans as low as $4.95. Visit Mactippodcast.com/hostgator for more Info Show Notes: Okay, so you’re working in a program which takes up every vertical inch of the screen, like Final Cut Pro or iMovie, [...]…