Apple Toolbox

If you would like to conserve battery power on your Mac, this tutorial is for you! Energy Saver settings on your Mac can be used for many things including conserving battery power and scheduling your Mac to shut down. While this tutorial does not require any additional software, it does require Mac OS X Lion. [...]

Now that the holidays are rolling around, you may have some extra time off to use your Mac or iOS devices. If so, you may want to try out some new games on your Mac—for free! In this article we will be highlighting a few of the best free games for your Mac. Keep in [...]

While iOS devices have a wide variety of games, everything from Angry Birds to Grand Theft Auto to Fruit Ninja, Macs are sometimes left out of the gaming scene. Recently, however, this has started to change with the introduction of new gaming services such as Steam and OnLive. In this article we will be showing [...]

If you’ve recently received an Apple notebook as a gift or just want to know how to configure you Mac’s trackpad, read on! Multi-touch trackpads are one of Apple’s flagship features on the latest MacBook Airs and Pros. This is because they add a ton of functionality to OS X Lion as well as other [...]

By default, the Safari web browser records your web history, cookies and cache. This may be annoying if you would like to record privately. Fortunately, you can prevent your iOS or Mac OS X device from recording your web history with Private Browsing. When enabled, Safari will no longer record your web or Autofill history. [...]

If you’re an avid social networker, you may know the pain of not being able to upload an image because of its file size. At AppleToolbox, we’ve found a quick and easy workaround that will let you easily resize images using the Preview application which comes preinstalled on every Mac. In this tutorial we will [...]

QuickTime X is a media utility that has many little known features including audio, video, and screen recording. Because QuickTime X is included with every Mac running OS X 10.6 or higher, no extra software is required for this tutorial. Recording Media With QuickTime X To start, launch QuickTime. Once it has completely launched, look [...]

If you have trouble making your iPhone’s battery last a whole day, read on! In this tutorial we will be showing you how to maximize your iOS device’s battery. This is quite helpful if you’re an iPhone power user that uses your iPhone throughout the day. This tutorial requires an iOS device running iOS 5.0 [...]

Recently the app “iTether” was allowed into the iTunes App Store for $14.99. This  application lets you use your iPhone’s 3G connection on your Mac or PC. Unfortunately, Apple ended up pulling this application from the App Store shortly after it was introduced into the App Store. If you were one of the “lucky ones” [...]

With the release of the latest Xbox 360 dashboard update, Microsoft has released a new iOS app. The My Xbox Live app for iOS was unexpectedly released on December 7, 2011. Microsoft has always had an Xbox live app for their Windows Phone 7 devices. This app allows users to stay in touch with their [...]