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.

With Apple’s new releases of OS X focusing on making the Mac operating system more similar to iOS, several changes have been made to the user interface of the OS. One is the way that scrollbars work. iOS users will recall that when scrolling through content such as a website or a block of text on an app, the scrollbars display only when the content is actually scrolling, and fades away once the content is nonmoving once more. With Apple’s release of the latest OS X system, Lion, scrollbars work the same way. However, some users may wish (as I do) to keep the scrollbars permanently displayed, and here’s the tutorial that teaches you how to do it.