How to Print Screen on Mac

Many new Mac users, especially those switched from Windows, very often frantically try to find Print Screen key on their Mac keyboards when they need to make a first screenshot. Unfortunately, there is no such a key, but a good news is it’s possible to make screenshots in Mac OS X and with even more options available than in Windows!

On Windows systems pressing PrintScreen key makes screenshot of the entire desktop and Alt + PrintScreen – of the active window, and places it to the clipboard, whilst in Mac OS X you can do much more – even create a screenshot of a selected area and save screenshots as files.
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Posted in Mac on August 14, 2009 – 9:31 am | No Comments »

How to resize Mac OS Boot Camp partitions without data loss

When I bought a MacBook Pro laptop about a year ago I made it dual-boot to be able to use both Mac and Windows. As my main operating system at that time was Windows and Mac was used only for educational purposes, I partitioned my HDD the following way: I gave 120Gb of 160Gb drive to Windows and only 40Gb to Mac OS.

Recently I completely switched to Mac OS and Mac partition very quickly ran out of space so I started looking for a solution to shrink Windows partition and give all the freed space to Mac. Unfortunately, Mac OS doesn’t allow resizing boot partitions, even when you boot from a Mac DVD and run disk utility from there.

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Posted in Mac on August 13, 2009 – 5:31 am | No Comments »