Previously, we’ve written about how to use keyboard shortcuts to take screenshots of your Mac computer screen, including covering how to save screenshots to your copy/paste clipboard. But besides using keyboard shortcuts, you can also take screenshots by using the “screencapture” command in Terminal. Here’s a quick tutorial showing you how to do this.

Ever since iTunes 11 was released, I’ve discovered a lot of features that really make the newest version of Apple’s popular media library manager stand out from previous versions of the app. As I was browsing through my music today, I discovered quite an interesting (and useful) feature that seems to be built in to the new iTunes: the ability to quickly view the media you’ve recently played.
More info after the break.

A few weeks from the time of writing this post, I was having some problems with the trackpad on my 2009 Macbook Pro. To put it simply, the mouse cursor on the screen was not following the movements on my finger on the trackpad, and would often jump around, activating my hot corners and whatnot. A simple restart didn’t fix the problem either, although controlling the cursor with my standard Logitech mouse still worked fine. In this situation, I began hunting around for a way to disable the trackpad while maintaining use of my mouse, hoping that this would solve the problem. Here’s how you can do it.