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You know you need to change the oil in your car every 3,000 miles, clean your house’s gutters every fall, and brush your teeth at least twice a day—but do you know what’s necessary to keep your Mac in good shape? For the most part, Macs run smoothly. But as with most machines, a little preventative maintenance goes a long way toward keeping things running smoothly.

Disk Utility’s Repair Disk Permissions feature

Songbird is an open-source customizable music player that's under active development. We're working on creating a non-proprietary, cross platform, extensible tool that will help enable new ways to playback, manage, and discover music. There are lots of ways to contribute your time to the project. We'd love your help!

What you may not have known is that you can do the same thing for certain drop-down menus hiding behind buttons—even when those menus aren’t yet visible. To take best advantage of this trick, you must first make sure you’ve got your machine set up such that the Tab key takes you to each available input. To do that, open the Keyboard & Mouse System Preferences panel, and then click on the Keyboard Shortcuts tab. At the bottom of this panel, make sure Full Keyboard Access is set to All Controls. You can now use the Tab key to select the drop-down menu, which you’ll need to do in order to then use the keyboard to access that drop-down’s menu items.

Imagine a Wi-Fi base station, of the sort that turns your home into a wireless hot spot, with a huge hard drive inside (and, mercifully, no power brick–just a slender power cable). The Time Machine automatic backup feature of the latest Mac OS X version backs up your Macs onto the Time Capsule, automatically, constantly, completely and wirelessly. And in my book, automatic, constant, complete backups are the only kind that really count.

The Casper Suite is a client management tool for the Macintosh platform. Simply put, the Casper Suite is designed to inventory, image, update, and maintain Apple computers running OS X. With an approach developed natively for the Macintosh OS, the Casper Suite makes it easy to image machines, manage updates, and proactively support computers automatically and remotely. With the Casper Suite, system administrators no longer need to work nights and weekends or hire additional staff to support new or existing computers. The Casper Suite allows your school district or university to grow its population of fast, fun, and powerful Apple computers without growing your IT department.

Do-It-Yourself Laptop & iPod Repair Broke your computer or iPod, but don't feel comfortable diving in without any experience? The Fixit Guide Series is your solution. Each Fixit Guide has detailed disassembly instructions that walk you through the process of easily accessing and replacing components in your iPod, PowerBook, or iBook. Reassembly Made Easy Our reassembly tips don't leave you stranded once you get your machine apart. The Fixit Guides provide helpful reminders to make sure everything gets put back where it came from, and working just like new. ID Your Device Don't know which model you have? Look up your computer or iPod on our ID page. Fixit. Cheap. The Fixit Guides are available for free online; simply follow the links below. If you don't have the replacement part you need, we sell every part you see in these Guides, and a whole lot more, at insanely great prices: www.iFixit.com Choose Your Guide

© Amit Singh

January 2009