The easiest and most effective way to make a complete backup of your machine the way it is, is to make a disk image. What is a disk image? A disk image is a complete 100% identical copy of your system the way it is. All your files, programs, music, pictures, everything. This means if your hard drive is currently 280 gig’s in use, your disk image will come out to be 280 gigs~. Disk images are also really easy to restore, and luckily do...

A common topic amongst new and old Mac users, do i really need antivirus software on my Mac? Well the answer will depend on who you ask, but lets take a look at all the scenarios and weigh our options. First, what is a virus, how do you get one, and what will they really do. A virus is any kind of malicious code written to benefit another third party, or sometimes even disrupt your computing experience. Most people assume that a virus can...

Let me tell you something. If you ever paid money for a Windows Emulator for your Mac, make a sad face and read these words very carefully. Open source is free, stable, reliable, and continuously updated. So on the topic of running Windows executables on your Mac, Darwine has been around for years and is the Mac port of the popular Wine app which has been available to *nix users for years. Download it using this easy guide and start playing...

Call it a trick or not, anyone who has used dual monitors on a Mac knows how handy it would be to have a second menu bar on the extending screen. The following app does exactly that by placing the menu on your second screen and giving you a fairly wide variety of options and customizations that allow you to tweak it to your hearts content. SecondBar is as easy to install as it is download. Just head over to their website grab yourself a...

The new 2010 i7 and i5 MacBook Pro’s feature two graphics cards, an integrated Intel HD card and a GeForce GT 330M. There’s nothing wrong with this, unless you’re trying to conserve battery life and aren’t playing games. For whatever reason Apple hasn’t released any updates with the functionality to switch between the two manually, but thankfully some hackers have done the dirty work for us. You can download...