Mac running slow – do I need more
memory?
If you are running OS X 10.3 or 10.4, try running Activity
Monitor, located in your Utilities folder (don't know where
that is? See next tip). This will tell you if you are using
up all of your available memory. If it isn't check if your
Mac is running a lot of processors you have absolutely no
idea about. Could be a rogue printer driver or an old
version of software that needs updating. MenuMeters is an excellent
alternative that shows you what's going on all the
time in the menu bar.
Upgrading to OS X, all confused? Get a
book!
Check out the titles under The Missing Manual series. This one is for OS X 10.4 Tiger.
How do I backup my iPod (and other naughty
questions)
Well, we're not going to tell you how, but this mob has many useful tutorials.
I'd like to transfer my DVD movies to my iPod. What
do I do?
That's actually two questions: how to extract movies from a
DVD, and how to move it to an iPod.
For the first half, check out the Mac forum here. For the second half, the
official answer is to use Apple's QuickTime Pro. The
other answer is to visit the mob that has a lot of
useful tutorials on the iPod above, or use one of many
excellent tools available, eg iSquint on the Mac.
I'd like to find some software. Is there a simple
way to search on name or function?
Apart from Google, try VersionTracker first.
How can I find out more about my Mac, like speed of
memory, model year?
MacTracker is definitely one of the
best resources around.