Tag: internet
Tweaking 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 regional Australian city and our internet comes by ‘fixed wireless.’ Fixed wireless is essentially a dedicated 4G connection…
Monitor 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 when overnight my data usage spikes and I lose 10GB. Where has it all gone? After trying out…
How 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 interrupted and have to do something else. Don’t worry, you can bookmark all of your tabs at once to have them saved…
How 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.
Does 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?
How 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. This is called submitting your site to a search engine. You don’t have to pay to do this – it’s free. Read on to find…
New web server!
Macintoshhowto.com has been averaging 150,000 visits a month lately.
How 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 you are running from) and  Parental Controls also becomes hard to manage if you have multiple users because you need to set it up for…
Tethering 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.)
How to find the fastest DNS
Open DNS and google offer a free DNS service, but how do you know if it’s any faster that the one you have?
How 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 few, I have listen them in order of simplicity…
How to upload iweb sites without a .mac account
iweb normally publishes your website to your .mac account on the Apple server, here’s how to upload it manually to your own server.
How 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.
How 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…
How to make a podcast
So you’ve made an mp3 file, and you want to turn it into a podcast. Here’s how.
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.