How to record speech
Here’s a pretty good way to record speech on the macintosh, and have it sound OK for listening to over the internet. Record the speech using audacity. (Don’t use an mp3 player unless it records in aiff...
View ArticleHow to make a podcast
So you’ve made an mp3 file, and you want to turn it into a podcast. Here’s how. A podcast is simply a small file called an ‘RSS feed’ that points to the audio (mp3) file that you want to podcast. You...
View ArticleHow to get a Bigpond NextG USB modem working.
The new Telstra USB Next G modems (2007) work quite well but there are a few problems with the bigpond driver for OSX. The auto setup has a few problems, it misses some steps and describes some steps...
View ArticleHow to use your mac from anywhere
I just found this great guide to how to login to your mac from over the internet from anywhere. http://howto.diveintomark.org/remote-mac/
View ArticleHow to upload iweb sites without a .mac account
NOTE: This article is for iWeb 08 and earlier. Click here for how to do this in iWeb 09. SUMMARY: iweb normally publishes your website to your .mac account on the apple server. But it also has an...
View ArticleHow to write a simple blog
A blog is like an online diary or journal, where you type entries and people can read them. A blog site is designed to be easily updated regularly. There are various ways to set up a blog, here are a...
View ArticleTethering your iPhone as a wireless modem with Telstra.
Yesterday Telstra turned on internet tethering for the iphone! (I think they are the only carrier in Australia to do this.) Tethering is where you use your iPhone as a wireless modem to connect your...
View ArticleHow to protect your family from bad websites.
Apple have built in website filtering into OS X under the ‘System Preferences’ – ‘Parental Controls’ but Parental Control cannot be enabled for administrator accounts (which is probably the account...
View ArticleNew web server!
Macintoshhowto.com has been averaging 150,000 visits a month lately. It sits on a server with 5 or 6 other web sites but I thought it deserved a server of it’s own. I moved it across it today. You can...
View ArticleHow to get your website to appear in a google search
Web pages generally do not automatically appear on search engine results pages. To make your site appear in google and other search engines you need to manually add your site to their index. This is...
View ArticleHow to find the fastest DNS
A domain name server (DNS) is like the phone-book of the internet. Every time you enter a webpage in your browser, it looks up a DNS to find out where the website is before it goes there. Open DNS and...
View ArticleDoes heartbleed affect Apple Macintosh users?
You might have heard on the news or web about the ‘heartbleed’ bug. I want to answer two questions: Does it affect Macintosh users? Do I need to do anything about it? Does is affect Macintosh users?...
View ArticleHow to copy a talk or music from the Internet onto your iPod
Apple have made it super easy to get music files from the iTunes store onto your iPod. But it’s not so obvious how to download a music file from the Internet to your iPod or iPhone. SUMMARY: The trick...
View ArticleHow to bookmark lots of tabs at once in safari
Have you ever searched the internet with lots of webpages open at once? You could be doing research or booking a holiday, you might even have ten pages open at once. Then, all of a sudden, you get...
View ArticleMonitor internet usage of individual applications in OSX
Have you ever wondered which application is using up all your internet data? We live out-of-town on a rural property and I’m on a plan that only has 60GB per month. Sometimes I am tracking along fine...
View ArticleMonitor internet usage of individual applications in OSX
Have you ever wondered which application is using up all your internet data? We live out-of-town on a rural property and I’m on a plan that only has 60GB per month. Sometimes I am tracking along fine...
View ArticleTweaking your 4G internet speeds when your NBN is bad.
An apology to international readers – some of the details in this post apply specifically to Australia, although there will be principles here that you can apply. I live just 5 km line of sight from a...
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