You may have sensitive information on your Mac OS X that you’d prefer the FBI or your neighborhood thief not to know about. The Mac OS X security feature is called File Vault. File Vault can be used to encrypt your file information using a special volume for your home folder that is password protected, so nobody buy you (or your ex who you stupidly told) has access to the information. Currently, even the law cannot penetrate this...

Never forget the underdog. Google’s Android has revolutionized the smartphone marketplace. For those of us with iPhones, we’ve never really had to think about how to setup our devices to work with our Macs, but what if we have an Android? How does one sync their droid, atrix, galaxy s, etc with their Mac? Its easy, lets take a look. This article explains how to hook up your Android device (running android 2.2 froyo or later)...

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...

Want a more exciting UI? Turn your desktop into a screen saver with the simple steps below. 1. Goto Spotlight (magnifying glass top right of your screen). 2. Type ‘Terminal’ in the line and hit enter. 3.  From your new terminal window type the following: /System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Resources/ ScreenSaverEngine.app/Contents/MacOS/ScreenSaverEngine -background 4. Hit and enter and look at your...

Web hosting for designers, sounds good right? It’s exactly that. I made the transition from GoDaddy to Site5 and couldn’t be happier. GoDaddy’s interface was sluggish, confusing, and at most times… completely pointless. A friend recommended that I try out Site5 for my hosting. The prices were higher then GoDaddy (price is the only thing that kept me there) and I couldn’t find a whole lot of user reviews on it....

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...