Sweep your Mac clean

Wed 12 November 2008 on Finder, Handy software, Leopard, Macintosh by Miraz Jordan

A recent sweep of my MacBook Pro recovered 10 gigabytes of space lost to some unexpected hidden files. Find out how to sweep your Mac.

How much of the Hard Disk is used?

Wed 02 May 2007 on Apple software, Finder, Macintosh, Peripherals by Miraz Jordan

How to find out how much of your Hard Drive is being used; and what to do if you’re running out of space.

Sharing the memory

Wed 25 April 2007 on Apple software, Finder, Macintosh by Miraz Jordan

RAM is the working space for your computer. The applications all share it, but more RAM might make your computer work better.

Tab Stop Two Step

Wed 11 October 2006 on Apple software, Edit text, Macintosh, MS Office by Miraz Jordan

Don’t use Spaces to line up columns in text; press the Tab key once per column. Here’s how it works.

Bits, Bytes, Megabytes and Gigabytes

Wed 24 April 2002 on Macintosh, Peripherals by Miraz Jordan

All about megabytes, gigabytes and terabytes.