Archive for March, 2009

The game of go is a strategic board game invented in China more than 2,000 years ago. And the options for playing it on the Mac — or even the iPhone or iPod touch — are on the rise. Go enthusiast Kirk McElhearn shows you how to get started

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Playing go on the Mac

Learn how to disable the Help system’s automatic searching of Apple’s Support site when you run a Help system search

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Disable Support site Help searches in Leopard

With a little bit of handiwork, you can upgrade the hard drive that came with your Mac. Here’s what to look for when buying a new internal hard drive.

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Buying advice: Internal Hard Drives

iTunes 8 comes with a rejiggered Party Shuffle feature called iTunes DJ. It works this way.

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Party down with iTunes DJ

Safari doesn’t allow you to configure its Private Browsing feature so that it’s always on. Here’s a work-around.

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Auto-enabling Safari’s Private Browsing

If you’re looking for a quick and painless way to add massive amounts of storage for your music, photos, videos, or system backups, an external hard drive is hard to beat.

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Macworld Buying Guides: External desktop hard drives

Ted Landau finds a pair of instances where a brief search of Elgato’s Web site helped find the answers to problems involving the company’s EyeTV Hybrid product for watching live television on your Mac.

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Bugs & Fixes: Elgato’s support solves EyeTV problems

Learn how to use Terminal to securely erase free drive space.

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Securely erase free space from Terminal

Here are a couple of interesting tips about importing existing images—those already on your Mac—into iPhoto.

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Tips for importing existing photos into iPhoto

Is your laptop lagging? Notebook not its usual self? Ted Landau has some suggestions for solving the most common problems with portable Macs

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Troubleshoot your MacBook