If your Mac is freezing, not starting up correctly, or behaving in another odd way, you could be looking at several possible causes. For example, a hardware failure, software glitch, or corrupt file might be to blame. To help narrow down the possibilities and perhaps just gain access to your files again, Safe Mode is a good place to start.

I love Keyboard Shortcuts, they are great time savers and once you learn them they just become an automatic thing.

If you are a new user of Mac or perhaps forgotten some of the Mac Keyboard Shortcuts here is a printable guide so that you can have them right in front of you for reference.

The Screen Capture shortcut is very useful

⇧ ⌘ 3 Screen to file

The "Hide App" (Application) Shortcut is awesome

⌘ H Hide app

What is Disk Utility?

Disk Utility lets you configure and manage disks (hard drives) on your mac.

Using Disk Utility, you can:

This is a great idea for anyone that uses itunes on their mac and doesn't keep all music in the same place on your computer, just like me !

Well in a surprising step Apple is now allowing users to use VLC video players with their apple products. If your not familiar with VLC then I can tell you its one of the best video players out there and it supports a multiple different types of videos. VLC is my current default video player on my PC. In the past with Apple you have been limited to what kinda videos you could use on your ipod's, iphone's and ipads so this is a big step for apple users. Basically it means no more converting if you want to watch videos that are not MPEG4 or H264.

If you have a iPhone, iPad or a iPod then you might want to check this out.....