Mac Fangirl

doing it all with a mac, technically speaking

Entries for June, 2009

Steve Jobs returns to work as promised

Steve Jobs is back at work after having undergone a liver transplant a couple of months ago. May he have a speedy recovery and enjoy the best of health.

Do exclusive carrier agreements help or hurt consumers?

Congress examines iPhone exclusivity.

Mac OS X Leopard User Accounts

I’m still trying to sort out the different types of user accounts available to Mac OS X Leopard users. So many choices, so little time.
The new Parental Controls offer new variations. And the new Guest account comes in handy for a temp user, like Aunt Charlotte who comes to visit from Santa Fe and wants [...]

Customizing Terminal.app in Leopard

With a few easy tweaks you can have your shell looking exactly like you want it and even have a number of shells with different colored windows and text in different tabs. In one tab, you can have your basic black text on a white background. In another tab, pink text on a blue background, [...]

The worst thing about the iPhone is AT&T

iPhone owners and those who want an iPhone are stuck with one carrier: AT&T.
Turns out there are myriad reasons why AT&T has drawn the ire of consumers, not just recently, but for decades. Let’s start with AT&T’s negative impact on the newest iPhone model.

Read Four Reasons Why iPhone Owners Hate AT&T.
Because AT&T has not yet [...]

Find My iPhone on MobileMe

If the message “no devices registered” appears on your MobileMe map when you attempt to “Find my iPhone”, even after you’ve enabled Push in your email settings for your MobileMe email account, then make sure you have a backup on your computer hard drive of your Mail, Contacts, Calendars and then delete your mail account [...]

Dock Matters

My current version of Mac OS X is 10.5.7. One of the nicest features I use on my Mac is the Dock. Back in the old days of Windows XP I created a folder on my desktop called Apps and then proceeded to turn it into a toolbar that I could place on the left [...]

Snow Leopard is all about optimization

Two words: speed and performance.

In the beginning there was UNIX

Mac OS X is superior to any Windows OS because Mac is based on UNIX.