Time Machine is a backup tool provided in Mac OS X Leopard. This is a useful tool to keep your data safe, and avoid the hassles of losing your personal data. Like anything hard drives wear over time, and eventually fail, and without a running backup everything from your family pictures...

How To Print to the Ricoh from your Laptop Download the Driver To print to the Ricoh printer wirelessly from your laptop, you’ll need to first download the correct printer driver. You can find it on the Fine Arts server by following these steps: From the Desktop, select...

To print to the Ricoh printer wirelessly from your laptop, you’ll need to first download the correct printer driver. You can find it on the Fine Arts server by following these steps: 1. Download the Driver 1. From the Desktop, select Go>Connect to Server… 2. Enter the following...

To burn a CD, you will need a blank CD-R disk. (Don’t use CD-RW disks). Since you can write to these disks once, you’ll want to wait until the end of your working session to burn them. While you are working, you can save your files temporarily to the desktop. To save files to the...

If your Mac appears to be ill, there are some great resources online to help you figure out how serious the problem really is. In many cases, you will find the issue is something you can fix yourself. Apple http://www.apple.com/support/m ac101/help/ First, start at Apple's own support site....

Apple Hardware Test (AHT) Macintosh users who are experiencing frequent kernel panics or random shut-downs should use the Apple Hardware Test application that ships with every Mac.   The test is useful in determining what, if any, components are failing so you can have it...

Automatic Updates Microsoft and Apple periodically release software updates and improvements to their operating systems and software. These updates are important to keep your computer secure and running smoothly. You can ease your mind of this task by enabling automatic...

Deleting Browser Cookies, Cache, & History Files Your computer is automatically saving data when you browse the internet.   It keeps a history of all of the webpages you visit. Some sites save your password for you so you do not have to enter it all the time.  ...

Mac Browser Hijack Currently, a number of shady video, pornography, and malicious websites are distributing a disk image (.dmg) containing the "OSX.RSPlug.A" application under the guise of QuickTime codecs. Users are prompted to download, open, install, and authenticate the disk image...

What is FTP? File Transfer Protocol is a very common method of moving files between two computers or between a computer and a server. FTP provides users a mthod of logging into another internet site for the purposes of retrieving and/or sending files. Using a Browser Users can browse a public...

Macintosh Firewire Target Disk Mode Users whose Macintosh computers fail to boot can be connected to another Mac via firewire. With this setup, the working Mac can view the hard-drive on the broken machine like an external drive, allowing the user to save and backup information. Simply...

Macintosh Preview The Preview application comes standard on Macintosh OS X installations. The program is primarily an image-viewer (.pdf, images, etc.), but can be used for many other purposes. Cropping Open the image (.jpg, .jpeg, .png, .gif, .tiff, etc.) in Preview. Click...

Eight Tips for Securing Your Mac Update your Operating System with the latest security patches. Click on Apple > Software Update or go to the Software Update preference pane in Apple > System Preferences. Note: You can also set your computer to check for updates daily, weekly, or...

Macintosh, Burning a CD Music Files Insert a CD into the CD tray and click OK. A new window will open with the directions on how to burn within iTunes. After reading the directions, click OK. iTunes will open. Select the playlist (in the left column) that you wish to...

How do I eject a CD on a mac? There are many methods to eject CD or DVD media from a Macintosh computer running OS X. Control-click or right-click the media and select Eject from the menu. In Leopard, go to the Eject icon in the menubar, and select the media. Open a Finder window...

Mozilla Firefox Web Browser Firefox is Web Browser, similar to Internet Explorer (windows) or Safari (mac).  It lets you browse the Web with less risk from viruses, spyware, and pop-ups. Enjoy improvements to performance, ease of use and privacy. It's easy to import your favorites...

New Computer? Can I Transfer Files? Yes. You can transfer your files with relative ease. Follow the instructions below for your operating system to access the transfer utility, and then follow the onscreen instructions.   Windows Windows XP and Vista computers are...

OS X Encrypted Disk Image What is an Encrypted Disk Image? An encrypted disk image (.DMG) is a 128-bit encrypted file that, when opened, will prompt the user for a password. Once authenticated, the disk image will mount on the desktop allowing the user to copy data to the mounted disk...

Printer Setup Utility Please note, this utility is only included in 10.2, 10.3, and 10.4. The current version of OS X (10.5 "Leopard") has an integrated utility; go to File, then Print, and select "Add a Printer" under the printer list drop-down menu or go to System Preferences and select...

Remote Desktop Protocol This article is advanced information about Remote Desktop Protocol. For other uses, see article on Remote Desktop  The Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) is a protocol utilized in connections between Windows machines running the RDP Service and client...