As frankps sees the world!

One of my tasks at work is installing Macs, and till now I have labeled the Macs with their hostnames on a Windows machine. But not any more, yesterday I got a small present from my “boss”. A DYMO LabelManager and it has OS X support. I had no problem setting up at as a printer and the small text editor app mounted as a USB pen and I only had to drag it over to the Applications folder. Sweeeeet! […] Continue reading →

Windows 8 cannot be said to be anything else then a disaster for Microsoft. I like Windows 8 and run it both on my desktop computer at work and at home. I am even one of the few that has a Windows Phone 8! But the latest numbers from Net Applications tells it all, Windows 8 is only found on 3.17% of computers, a small increase from February’s 2.67% share. The operating system experienced its biggest jump in market share following the holiday season, growing from 1.72% in December to a […] Continue reading →

I got the question from a Windows user, how do you quickly lock your screen on a Mac when running out of office? There is at least two ways of doing this: You can use a menu bar item. The setting for that is not placed in the most obvious place. Launch Keychain Access and go to Preferences. In the General tab, check the box for “Show keychain status in menu bar”. This will add a padlock icon to your system’s menu bar, where you can choose the option Lock Screen. A keyboard shortcut: […] Continue reading →

Computing will never be the same. This week I got to test a retina display for the first time on a laptop. Never has it been more fun to look through my bird photographies and never have I with such easy read longer articles on a computer screen. Getting the same screen resolution on a 15″ screen as on my 27″ screen is truly amazing and absolutely worth the extra money spent. From the screenshot you can see that Apple has stopped displaying the screen resolution. It is so high […] Continue reading →

A fantastic set of tools. Haven’t you long wanted to reach your Mac at home, from work or from your iPad/iPhone? There is a solution for you. Screens is available from the App Store and Mac App Store. Both clients cost money, but are in my opinion a good buy! Screens is a VNC client that lets you remotely access your Mac. To get it to work, you might need to do changes on your wireless accesspoint and the Mac at home. I had to open up some ports. It of course supports SSH tunneling so […] Continue reading →