Beginner Technology and Technical Guides

If you’ve experienced an issue with Safari 5 where it works perfectly some times and other times it doesn’t load a page at all even though you are sure you have a network connection?

If so, do this:

Well sometimes in the folder /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/ are plugins that are older that can cause Safari Problems. Plus if she takes all of the plugins out (to test) she can always reset Safari (or any application) by going to the folder /HerHardDrive/Users/HerUserName/Library/Preferences/ and find the file com.apple.Safari.plist and move it to the Trash can.

sited from this article on macosx.com

Ok, the most frequently asked question I get from any new Apple computer user is “do I need to install antivirus software?”

Well AVG has come out with some software that I highly recommend for any new Mac owner.
Go and download it AVG LinkScanner for Mac and install it. Continue reading →

If you haven’t already discovered the fact that Safari 5.0 on the Mac (OS X) now has the ability to handle 3rd party extensions do the following to start using them.

1. Open Safari preferences, [command + ,].
2. Go to the [Extensions] section and switch them to ON.
3. Now go and check out these extensions. Continue reading →

If you are the proud owner of a new Macbook, iMac or some other Mac OS X device here are some things to do before doing anything else.

• Learn your way around OS X by watching these Mac Basics Tutorial videos from the Apple website.
• Familiarize yourself with the keyboard shortcuts here.
• Learn how to install applications on the Mac (it is different than Windows). Sometimes it is so simple though that the novice user can make it MUCH more complicated by not understanding what is going on. Continue reading →

If you have been checking unseengeek for a little while now you’ve noticed that my writing has fizzled out. This is mostly due to other, more important things in my life. The lack of writing does not mean that I still do not very much enjoy technology. So, with that, here is the opportunity for you!

How it works: Continue reading →

Here’s a great article from Mac.AppStorm listing and briefly explaining 100 FREE applications for Mac OS X.

http://mac.appstorm.net/roundups/100-incredibly-useful-free-mac-apps/ Continue reading →

Here is a very helpful video from MacMost Now on how to convert text files and PDF files so that they can be read in the iBooks app on the iPad.

Thanks Gary!

If you use iBooks on your iPad or iPhone, you can only read books in EPUB format. If you have books in text or PDF format you may want to convert them to EPUB so you can read them in iBooks. You can do this with Calibre, a free open-source e-book library application. Continue reading →

Only Google could come up with something like this. LOL

Google’s logo has received a much needed update.

If you don’t see the new logo and work on a Windows based computer go to google.com and hit [ CTRL + F5 ] on your keyboard to do a hard refresh of the website.
If you’re working on an OS X based computer go to google.com and hit [ fn + command + r  ] on the keyboard to do a hard refresh of the website.

Much nicer Google… good job. Continue reading →

Well, today Steve Jobs wrote a very enlightening essay of sorts answering all of the questions concerning why Apple has been so “hard nosed” about allowing Adobe Flash on the iPhone OS.

Check it out, http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/ it is definitely worth a full read, not just a brief scan. Adobe can certainly recover from this, so I encourage them to reThink the future and move on since they are a great company no doubt. Continue reading →