Tag Archives: Mac

Linux Diskutil Primer Tutorial

Linux (or Unix) is an operating system whose very essence revolves around files. Files are stored on Disks and Volumes and you see this in play when we analyze the diskutil command that we access in a Linux environment on … Continue reading

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Mac Messages Primer Tutorial

The Messages application on Mac OS X (seen here on Mavericks (10.9.1)) is great for responding to notifications on a Mac without necessarily leaving the application you are in. Today an iPad sends a message (via the iMessage messenger service) … Continue reading

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Mac iPhoto Slideshow to iTunes and iMovie Movie Primer Tutorial

The Mac iPhoto Primer Tutorial from yesterday explains how Mac OS X iPhoto application does a great job of storing your photographs (on the Mac laptop’s hard disk) from a variety of sources, and it shows this for the import … Continue reading

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Mac iPhoto Primer Tutorial

The Mac OS X iPhoto application does a great job of storing your photographs (on the Mac laptop’s hard disk) that are: created on your laptop importable via removable CDs/DVDs/USBs or others importable via digital cameras (with inbuilt memory card) … Continue reading

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Mac Mavericks Maps Primer Tutorial

The Maps application on Mac OS X Mavericks (10.9.1) is great for planning trips and exploring the world on your posterior, if you’ll pardon the bottom-dwelling reference. In an earlier tutorial called Google Earth Primer Tutorial we showed another great … Continue reading

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Mac Mavericks iBooks Primer Tutorial

The iBooks application on Mac OS X Mavericks (10.9.1) is great for shopping for Books online. Please don’t get me wrong because there are loads of other big and good online (and offline “books and mortar”) bookshops out there, but … Continue reading

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Mac Finder Tags in Mavericks Primer Tutorial

The Finder application on Mac is a very valuable tool to learn to explore your hard disks and control your removable media. Recently a new version of Mac OS X (Mavericks or 10.9) introduced some new features for all those … Continue reading

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Xcode iOS Utility Application Primer Tutorial

The Xcode IDE, like many IDEs, holds that special fascination for the occasions when you, the user, (or youse, the users (chortle, chortle)) can go “File->New Project”. With a couple more button presses the user will feel that satisfaction of … Continue reading

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