How Your Computer Makes You Stay Awake at Night and How to Stop it

We all know the story: you should go to bed but, before you do, you want to check a few things the Internet – reddit perhaps, or your own favorite blog. Before you know it, it’s three in the morning and you don’t even feel tired.

Aside from the terribly distracting . . . → Read More: How Your Computer Makes You Stay Awake at Night and How to Stop it

5 Ways to Cool Down Your Hot MacBook

The hotter your computer gets, the slower it runs. Most modern desktops don’t suffer from over-heating problem, but if your main machine is a laptop, you know the painful slowness that heat produces.

To help get your MacBook running back at top speed, are 5 ways to make your Apple laptop . . . → Read More: 5 Ways to Cool Down Your Hot MacBook

Don’t Get Your Identity Stolen or Blackmailed: What You Need to Keep in an Encrypted Folder

Now that you know how to encrypt files on your Mac OS X computer, the question is: what do you need to encrypt? Here are some of the kinds of things you’ll want to keep inside an encrypted folder, broken down into vital and not-vital categories.

Vital Files to Encrypt:

Financial . . . → Read More: Don’t Get Your Identity Stolen or Blackmailed: What You Need to Keep in an Encrypted Folder

Never Miss Another Typo When Proofreading

One tip to finding typos when proofreading your work is to read your writing aloud — this helps, but you may still not catch many of your mistakes. You tend to read what you think you wrote, rather than what you actually did.

You need someone else to read your writing . . . → Read More: Never Miss Another Typo When Proofreading

A Quick Way to Save 1.3Gb of Space on OS X

If you bought iLife 09, you’ll know that it’s filled with lots of new features. One of these is videos in GarageBand of professional musicians teaching you how to make better music.

If you’re not a music person, these are just taking up space on your hard drive — lots of space. 1.3 . . . → Read More: A Quick Way to Save 1.3Gb of Space on OS X

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