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• Release a Minimized Window Using Application Switcher There are a few ways to release a minimized window from the Dock. You can click on the minimized window in the Dock, of course, or you can Control-click on the...
• Enable Momentum Scrolling for Magic Mouse in 10.5 If you happen to have a new Magic Mouse running on OS X 10.5, you may be disappointed to find that it lacks a feature you get with Snow Leopard: momentum...
• Third-party Screensavers Return to Snow Leopard When Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6) was first released, I noted that many (maybe even all) third-party screensavers would no longer work in the new OS. This was...
• Toggle Sidebar Visibility in All Open Finder Windows When I publish hints here on Macworld, I usually try to walk through and explain how they work, so as to help you understand what's going on behind the scenes...
• Hack Brings 10.6.2 Back to Atom Processors Remember last week, when the net was abuzz with the news that the Mac OS X 10.6.2 update broke notebooks with Atom processors? Well, given the first syllable of...
• Use Tab Key in Snow Leopard Keyboard Shortcuts Among the many improvements in Snow Leopard is the ability to use the Tab key in user-created keyboard shortcuts. In OS X 10.5, pressing the Tab key while...
• Open Minimized Windows in Current Space in OS X 10.5 Snow Leopard changed a lot of small things in the system, and not all of these were detailed by Apple. One such change occurs when you use minimized windows with...
• Apple Wins Hollow Victory In Psystar Ruling Apple won the court ruling against Mac clone-maker Psystar, but does the outcome really benefit anyone?
• AMD and Intel Patch Things Up, HP Buys 3Com We had a blockbuster deal this week, with Hewlett-Packard saying it plans to buy 3Com, and a blockbuster settlement, with Advanced Micro Devices and Intel ending...
• Enable Global Text Replacements in Snow Leopard One of Snow Leopard's more intriguing new features is text substitution, which lets the operating system replace defined sets of characters with other characters...
• Microsoft Denies Employee Comments About Copying Apple In an interview with PCR at last month's Microsoft Partner Network conference, Microsoft partner group manager Simon Aldous was asked whether Windows 7 was a...
• Store Photos Outside of IPhoto's Library Despite its powerful cataloging tools and easy-to-use editing features, many users are still nervous about committing their photo library to iPhoto. The...
• Looking at the Changes to Snow Leopard's Top Command I often use top in Terminal as a quick-and-dirty version of Activity Monitor. top can report on CPU and memory usage, and much more. Because I have Terminal...
• Apple's Snow Leopard Update Also Bans Hacked Macs Apple's release of Mac OS X v.10.6.2 squashes bugs and blocks Atom "Hackintoshes" in the process.
• Directly Set Screen Sharing Image Quality Level If you use OS X 10.5 or 10.6's built-in screen sharing feature to work with other Macs on your network, you can control (somewhat) the quality of the image from...
• Bugs & Fixes: What Bugs Mac OS X 10.6.2 Tackles Mac OS X 10.6.2 came out Monday, and while Macworld's Dan Moren detailed the changes in this latest update to Snow Leopard, I wanted to check out which bugs...
• Apple Breaks Hackintosh Netbooks with Latest Update Apple's most recent update for the Mac OS X Snow Leopard operating system breaks hackintosh systems by removing support for the Intel Atom processor commonly found in netbooks. Apple is more concerned with maintaining the customer experience than in gaining market share.
• Apple Releases Security Update 2009-006 for Leopard Monday was a busy day for Apple updates. Along with the release of Snow Leopard 10.6.2 comes a security update for users of OS X 10.5.8 and OS X Server 10.5.8.
• Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.6.2 On Monday, Apple released Mac OS X 10.6.2, the latest update to its Mac OS X operating system. As you might surmise, it contains a number of fixes and feature...
• Switchers Guide: Moving From Windows to the Mac [Editors' note: We asked Harry McCracken, the former editor of PC World and the editor of the Technologizer blog, to write a guide to switching to the Mac from...
• Switchers Guide: Move Your Files From PC to Mac If you've been using a Windows PC but now want to move to a Mac, you likely have files--documents, PDFs, photos, music, and videos--that you want to bring with...
• Switchers Guide: Getting Used to OS X Though neither Microsoft nor Apple would care to admit it, Windows and OS X are in many ways strikingly similar. That's good news for switchers: If you're...
• Switchers Guide: Moving Hardware and Software to Mac When you're switching from a Windows PC to a Mac, there's one piece of good news: Most of the peripherals you used with your PC--including printers, digital...
• Switchers Guide: Understanding Mac Security When it comes to security, using Windows can feel like living in the heart of a big city--the kind of place where you can install all the locks and alarms you...
• Could Steve Jobs, "CEO of the Decade," Run Your Company? If we measure greatness by overall ability, that is the ability to run a company as one finds it and leave it for someone else, Jobs fails.