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It might sound strange, but I thoroughly enjoy reinstalling OS X. The process may be time consuming, but my fetish for status bars, the awesome first launch movie and most importantly the prospect of a fresh Mac running to Apple’s specs makes it a pleasurable process. As far as system defaults are concerned, I’m happy with 99 percent of Apple’s choices. Here’s my checklist for dealing with that other 1 percent.

Macworld with some great advice to free up some disk space: empty iPhoto’s trash. When you delete a photo from iPhoto, it isn’t completely deleted. Rather, much like the Finder, the photo is moved to the Trash section in the side bar. Right click on the Trash section and select Empty Trash from the contextual [...]

Now that I have an iPod Touch, I’m much more conscious about the appearance of my iTunes library. Here are a few tricks to make sure your music looks as good as it sounds.

Everyone loves freeware! But developers work hard on their creations, and giving everything away for free doesn’t pay the bills. Here are ten of my favorite shareware applications that I was more than happy to shell out a bit of cash for.

A friend of mine recently asked for an explanation as to why her Mac had suddenly begun to throw up “Disk Almost Full” warnings. Her music, movies and pictures folders were all a reasonable size and her trash was empty, but still the warnings persisted. Where did all the space go?

OS X is an entirely stable platform. Every once in a while, however, an application becomes unresponsive to clicks and keyboard commands. Here’s how to force them to quit and regain your Mac.

OS X comes with a host of really excellent applications, but one of the best things about being a Mac user is the breadth and quality of third-party applications that you can install to enhance your computing experience. Here is a list of applications to immediately install on a new machine.