How to Use FaceTime for Making & Taking Calls in OS X 10.10?

It is great to see the faces of your near and dear love-ones rather listening their voice or simply talking. It sounds awesome if a phone call comes with a friendly face. If you are an iPhone user, then you must be aware about the glorious quality feature 'FaceTime'. Though, iPhone is a smart phone but it has solved many communication problems with Proximity. There are many iPhone users who know about 'FaceTime' feature for making calls but not well verse about its proficiency and maneuver.

call making & taking between Mac and iPhone

'FaceTime' is one of the best feature in iPhone available for Mac users to talk, relish, laugh and to be delighted with anyone having iPhone, iPad, iPod (touch facility) or Mac enriched with 'FaceTime' facility.

This app is also beneficial, if you forgot your iPhone in your jacket or in your bag at home then you can make and receive calls with your Mac, iMac, MacbookPro (if settings are done properly).

How to Create an OS X Mavericks Installer Media via 'Terminal'?

Nowadays, OS X 10.10 is among Mac users. Mac has been introduced many OS X versions but Mavericks is the strongest one among all the earlier renderings and many of us still love to work under the Mavericks environment. The good thing about Mavericks is that, it can be downloaded free from the App store. If your Mac is running Lion, or Mountain Lion then this version works very well. But there is a fact that many Mac novices (without possessing extra technical knowledge) face issues in simply downloading and installing this free version. It becomes a little difficult for them to know basic hardware & software requirements to proceed further for installation. Wouldn’t it be the best, if novices just plug an OS X ‘Installer media’ into the Mac and let that media drive to work automatically on their behalf?

USB Device

Here is an expert and easy way to create an Installer drive of Mavericks. It is also the best for those users, who don’t want to log in to App Store and initiate downloading. Just plug the ‘Mavericks Installer Media’ into the Mac system and simply reboot Mac to select this Installer drive to work automatically and sit with an ease.

Basic Requirements

Key Tricks to work Flawlessly with Mac OS X

“The road to enlightenment is long and difficult“, until unless a human being does not try to engage with the environment and understand a process then how would he proceed. It has been said that working with Mac is a little difficult as compare to Windows. Its built-in applications are hard to understand by the novices. It is completely a myth because as a Mac user, I must say that the built-in application in Mac has made the working very effortless and straightforward. Don’t make this myth in your mind and see the below OS X tricks to enjoy working with Mac and avoid this curiosity.

1. How to Access Sidebar items in New Window?

If you are in a ‘Finder’ window and want any item to get opened in a new window then hold down the Command key along with a ‘click’. This command works very well for any Sidebar items; no issues whether it comes under the category of Favorites, Shared, or Devices. This trick is much faster than locating and navigating through system locations.

access sidebar items quickly in new window

2. How to Move Windows?

If you are working among two or three windows and you want to drag any other window without loosing the focus from the current one. Then hold the command key and drag the window from its ‘titlebar’ to another location. This trick will not create any interference in any process going on in the current foreground window.

How to Undelete Mac files?

Everybody tries to organize important data safely by opting different means like maintaining a successful backup or cloning the entire Mac drive. Unfortunately, drive failure and wrong drive formatting are the circumstances, which bring the worst situation of data loss, and it is not possible to recover the lost files, documents from emptied Trash in Mac without using any expert application. The first thing as a 'first aid' should be done for the drive is to avoid writing anything onto that drive. Don't update system files or any type of software download, because overwriting onto drive will wipe the data. For example, when a drive is formatted, it seems that all the files are gone and cannot be recovered back. Actually, what the operating system does is only delete the catalog and free up the space of the stored files so that there is enough space for you to store new files into your Mac hard drive later. Now the question arises, who is able to get those deleted catalog back to regain Mac data? There are many third party applications, which are reliable enough to recover the deleted Mac OS X files. By downloading the available free version, Mac drive can be scanned to see the lost data existence onto drive and later you can buy that software to recover irreplaceable lost data.

If you have lost important data or any file accidentally either by drive formatting or even deleted from trash, then don’t worry. Try Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery Software. The good thing about this software is that it is compatible with OS X Mavericks and other earlier version till OS X10.5. It can regain Mac data with in few clicks without asking to put any extra technical efforts; and provides a built-in 'Quick Look' facility to view the lost data, which are recoverable.

How to Speed up Mac via Repairing File Permission?

After purchasing Mac machine, it is hard to mention about the time span, when Mac would start behaving slow. Over a period of time, a user starts noticing the slow speed and few glitches while accessing files and applications. To get back the rapid speed for Mac, user starts

• Deleting unused widgets existing on dashboard
• Manages browsers with overloaded extensions
• Manages favicons on Safari Browser
• Deleting those messages from massive Mailbox which are of no use
• Listing and removing duplicate files, folders from Library area
• Manage cluttered desktop occupied with lots items
• Emptying the trash
• Turning off 'Animated Wallpapers' which impact the performance
• Manage Internet settings by clicking Reset Safari

and lots of other activities to clean up and speed up Mac. On the other hand, users try to remove Caches, Log Files and Temporary Files manually (in Home/Library/Cache) in OS X to free up the valuable space in disk; but have you ever noticed the 'corrupted preference files' of an application, which cause Mac too slow. If not, then it's the time to recognize when you access any application and due to that application, does Mac get slow? If yes, then try to delete the preference files and relaunch the application.

How to Manage Duplicate Files in Mac OS X?

In this fast paced digitized scenario, everyone likes to work and deliver the output quickly. Slow running electronic devices spoil the precious time and resources as well. If we talk about Mac OS X then, there can be many places like iTunes, Mail downloads, and external USB drives etc. where duplicates such as files and photos occupy the hard disk space unnecessarily and keep the system slow while executing any operation. The best thing is to get rid from these is to find and remove the replicate documents and freeing up the valuable disk storage area.

Ways to Delete Duplicates Files in Mac OS X

There are many ways to list and clean the duplicates in Mac. It depends upon the experience of a user, how long he/she is using Mac system and aware about the issues. Lets see further, how to delete the duplicates in OS X

Case 1: How to Remove Files from iTunes?

iTunes has a facility to check the duplicates. Please follow the following steps to list the identical items:

• Go to iTunes Library and highlight the relative items like movies, music, podcast albums etc.
• Go to File menu and click on 'Display Duplicates'
• All the duplicates items will be displayed instantly in the main iTunes window to delete those simply.
• Hold down Alt key while selecting duplicates

iTunes Duplicate Files Window

How to Defrag Mac OS X Safely?

All Mac users know that defragmentation process speeds up Mac by defragmenting large bulky files and optimize drive storage. Although, Defragmenting Mac is no more confusion but it needs complete concentration before proceeding towards it. Once we start storing the data into drive; it usually works well up to 50% level and as it exceeds from this level, Mac tends to behave slow. This situation forces a user to delete duplicate data, unwanted applications, unused widgets and sometimes user directly switches to Mac drive defragmentation process.

If you are a Mac user then you must be aware about this fact that SSD's don't need defragmentation or we can say, it's worthless to defrag the large bulky files existing on SSD. There may be other reasons like bad or failing sectors, less RAM, old OS X version of SSD slow. Well, the best remedy is to make a successful backup of Mac HD in advance onto another drive. That external drive must be formatted as GUID and OS X journaled. You can manually drag all the files and apps to another drive but this method can not take OS X. Any reliable Mac drive defrag software can be used to replicate Mac drive.

Defragmenting Mac OS X

Tips to Defrag Safely