How To Speed Up Your Mac

When you add more files, Spotlight creates and updates its indexes so, it will be easier when you search for files on your mac. The downside is, it always perform this and slows your computer. To speed things up, you can exclude folders, files, for indexing:

System Preferences->Spotlight or, Launchpad and click the Preferences icon.

Click Search Results tab, and uncheck all that you don’t usually search for.

Then, click the Privacy tab and click the plus (+) icon and choose folders you want to exclude for Spotlight to index. If you exclude more folders, the system will be much faster.

Need For Speed!

Learn How To Use Your Mac OSX Lion Book

Merry Christmas Everyone!

I'm pleased to introduce to you my new book called, "Learn How To Use Your Mac Tutorial," in Amazon Kindle eBooks store.

It has everything you want to learn on how to use your mac to the fullest like:

• How To Find Files, Documents Using Spotlight And Finder
• Add Google, Yahoo Accounts in Mail And Create Themed Emails
• How To Surf The Web Using Safari Safely And Back-up Bookmarks With iCloud
• Create Events In iCal And Alerts
• Improve Security Of Your Mac
• Use iCloud And Backup Files
• How To Access Mission Control, Launchpad, Activate Screensaver Using Hot Corners
• How To Have Multiple Wallpapers, Desktops
• How To Check Time, Use Dictionary, Weather, Date, Calculator In Dashboard
• Buy Apps In Mac App Store
• Update, Remove Software
• Fix Problems With Your Mac
• Video Chat With Your Friends Using iChat Or Facetime
• Add Music In iTunes. Browse Apps In App Store. View Movie Trailers, Podcasts, Video In iTunes U
• Add Albums, Organize Pictures And Create Slideshows In iPhoto ’09
• Edit, Share Videos In iMovie ’09
• Create Midi Recording, Editing, Share Music Using Garageband ’09
• Create Home Page For Safari Using iWeb
• Set-up Xcode For Software Development
• Install Windows Using Bootcamp
• Some Essential Apps For Your Mac
• Have Fun With Your Mac
• More Help

I hope you will enjoy learning from this book as much as I love writing it.

Click this link to check it out: Learn How To Use Your Mac Tutorial eBook

You can also read this book for free if you join Amazon Prime.

Thank you for your support!

Learn Basic Objective-C Programming For Free

If you are trying to learn on how to program in Objective-C, whether for fun or profit, here is a website that offers quality education for beginners:

http://thenewboston.org/list.php?cat=33

Objective-C is the language used for programming in macs derived from Steve Jobs' work when he founded Next Step. It uses the Cocoa framework, where all applications like iPhoto, iMovie, Garageband and others where based upon.

The New Boston website is created by Bucky Roberts, which I learned some time ago when learning Objective-C.

I hope this will be beneficial for your first steps in learning Objective-C.

Mac App For The Day : Wallpaper Wizard

This is a nice application for making your mac beautiful with wallpapers. Wallpapers will give you a sense of freshness everyday with a new wallpaper, making you say "wow!" because of their beautiful collection of wallpapers. They boast of 100,000 High Definition photos that will definitely make your day.

You can check this out in the Mac App Store or their website: http://wallwiz.com/

Xcode 4 Update, Special Shopping Event This Friday

Just a reminder, there is an update for Xcode 4 for Lion today.

There will also be a special shopping event this Friday.

Check it out here: http://store.apple.com/us/browse/holiday/shopping_event?aid=www-StartPage-BlackFriday-Teaser

Xcode 4 Programming In Mac OSX Lion

To be exact, it's simpler and easier.

No more manual release, auto-release memory allocations.

Big improvements in Xcode.

ARC.

Read more from Ars Technica Review: http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7.ars/10

Download Lion Recovery Disk Assistant To Fix Your Mac And Your Life

About Lion Recovery Disk Assistant (From Apple.com Support)

Built right into OS X Lion, Lion Recovery lets you repair disks or reinstall OS X Lion without the need for a physical disc.

The Lion Recovery Disk Assistant lets you create Lion Recovery on an external drive that has all of the same capabilities as the built-in Lion Recovery: reinstall Lion, repair the disk using Disk Utility, restore from a Time Machine backup, or browse the web with Safari.

Note: In order to create an external Lion Recovery using the Lion Recovery Assistant, the Mac must have an existing Recovery HD.

To create an external Lion Recovery, download the Lion Recovery Disk Assistant application. Insert an external drive, launch the Lion Recovery Disk Assistant,  select the drive where you would like to install, and follow the on screen instructions.

When the Lion Recovery Disk Assistant completes, the new partition will not be visible in the Finder or Disk Utility. To access Lion Recovery, reboot the computer while holding the Option key. Select Recovery HD from the Startup Manager. 

For detailed information on this update, please visit: About Lion Recovery Disk Assistant. 

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1433

Note: If you need to fix your job; your problems with wife and kids; or anything with your life, watch this video: http://youtu.be/k4V3Mo61fJM

How To Keep Your Apps Organized In The Right Desktop Using Mac OSX Lion, Mission Control

"In Mission Control, apps are assigned to different desktops without my control, and these desktops seem constantly reordered."

You can manage this with Mission control. 

1. Go to System Prefs/Mission Control

2. Uncheck "Automatically rearrange spaces based on most recent use"

3. Open an app in the preferred desktop

4. Right click its icon in the dock

5. Select Options/Assign to Current Desktop

 
Now, when you restart your Mac, your apps will be on the right desktops you chose. 

Photo Library From American Red Cross

See how your help, helps:

Photo Library

American Red Cross

For The Love Of It?

Why do we need to buy software, or make upgrades, surf the web, edit photos, share on Twitter, or video chat with friends, buy this and that, in short: "Why do we need computers?" If it's not selling so why bother?

I've been asking this myself when I look at my experience for more than ten years of computing. Finishing only an IT degree, I never really had the chance to earn real money. I've been out of work for the past four years, and just do some Open Source, voluntary work like blogging, so I don't really earn much. But, why do I still cling into something that does not pay?

My websites have over 10,000 page views, and feel happy about it even if it's not converting into cash, for the sake that I already helped a lot of people. It didn't change the world, but it made it better in a small way.

Now, from my meager savings, I still made the upgrade from Snow Leopard to Lion for just $29.99. Why? Because for the love of it? It gives me or motivates me to work more, and share more that is why I did it. Not for money, not for glory, but for the love of it.

How To Try Earning Money Using A Mac

Ok, I told you I am not a rich man, and it's very challenging to earn money on-line or in computers. Quite let you down, and I'm sorry to discourage you. But, there were things I tried doing that might have worked that I stopped doing. One thing is the Mac App Store.

The Mac App Store is like the App Store but for computers. And, to be honest, some apps like the Twitter app for macs is so much better than using just a web browser. It's like using a mobile phone but on a desktop computer. So, in short, you may want to try create and publish apps for the mac. All you need is time, patience to learn Objective-C, Xcode for creating apps, and $99 per year to publish to the Mac App Store.

Xcode is free since you already have a Mac. Then, learn the language used in creating apps such as Objective-C by buying a book, ebook or on-line websites. About the $99, you figure it out.

There Is No Money In Computers

I’ve been unemployed for more than three years, and resorted to selling ebooks, software that I developed, digital photos, digital artworks, adsense, etc., on-line. After living years on my own, working in my small room, I must admit that there is no money selling on-line using a computer. The truth is, computers will only make you spend more than earn money. Today, you will see tablets, iphones, androids, anywhere in Youtube, CNET, ZDNet, and other tech websites, but you all see them selling to you and not buying from you. You are not benefitting from these so much technology. I bet that once you buy a tablet, you will spend money, and the money you invested does not give you anything in return except money being spent.

An App To Convert Your Kindle E-books to Other Formats

Kindle for Mac is good for reading e-books, but you cannot copy & paste from the app. You can only highlight it or put notes and do searching, but just that. To convert your e-book to another format where you can read on PDF Preview, or EPUB to another e-book device, you can download Calibre here, for more info.

Note: You can only convert non-DRM Kindle e-book formats (These are formats with copyright protection).

Xcode's Interface Builder UI Problem

I've only started developing using Xcode with Interface Builder and finding it difficult. Apple should use one-window for Interface Builder so when switching between Xcode and Interface Builder would be easier, not utility windows scattered around, and have to click on to different windows just to put in front, and you can see the guts of Xcode at the background. Thanks to a free app called Backdrop, it makes it more organized although you have to click to it's icon to able to use it. It is available at the Mac App Store for Snow Leopard.

My Music Compositions On Your iPhone

You can listen to my music compositions on your iPhone here.
(Although, I don't have one) hehe.

This is created using MobDis app on mac app store; this is just a preview. It uses HTML5, so probably it will also work on the iPad. Thanks!

Facebook Is Unsecure?

Facebook is not using SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) to encrypt your username and password when you log-in. Why are they not using this security feature? Is this true? All popular websites are using this like Google, MSN, Yahoo, etc.

How To View Atom XML Feeds in Safari

Add Bookmark->type this in address: feed://file:///path_to_your_xml_file_on_your_computer

You can use this when you export your blog from Blogger or Wordpress.

That's it!

Mac App Store for Your Snow Leopard

Apple has a new app store for macs where you can download free and paid apps. To download it, you simply update your mac by clicking the mac icon->Software Update. It will install mac os x version 10.6.6 together with the app store.

To use the app store, you have to register first. To install an app, you simply click on the button at the bottom of the icon. I recommend you to try and install the free apps making your mac more enjoyable!

Click here for more information.

Note: This is only for recent Snow Leopard Mac OS X.

Mac App Store