Category Archives: Computers & Internet

Since Pages doesn’t allow document background to be changed there is little hack. Just make a text box with black background and white text. Remove the margins, and expand the text box to fill the screen.

Now you go to full screen you have a distraction free writing environment.

If you don’t want to go completely black you can change it to what ever color you want.

By using black you can save quite a bit of battery power. By using black on white it looks good even in the lowest brightness which in turn preserves the battery.

You can even set this as template and use it anytime you want.

When apple starts the iCloud service you can even have your important file synced by using Pages. So there is a big benefit in using pages for all your writing needs.

No with this hack it becomes distraction free.

In order to clean install Lion there are few steps you need to take. If you already installed Lion and want to go back and install Lion as a clean install that too can be done.

Follow these steps

Make a bootable dvd or usb drive. 

You can only do this after downloading the Lion operating system from app store and before installing it. Once you install Apple deletes the file.

So do this after downloading and before installing.

Making a bootable Lion disk will come in handy in future when you want to reinstall Lion without downloading it again.

The only way to clean install Lion is by using snow leopard.

So find the free snow leopard dvd or usb recovery disk you received and install snow leopard again. This time when at the installation screen make sure you erase the hard disk by using disk utility. Which can be found in the menu bar during installation.

Once you install do a software update. You should get mac os updates which will be around 1 GB (the size of the update will depend on which version of snow leopard you have). Once you download and install that pop in your newly created Lion usb or dvd and install Lion on this clean version of snow leopard.

If you are doing this only on one machine you don’t even need to make the bootable disk. Just clean install snow leopard and do the updates and download and install Lion from app store.

Why would you want to make a clean install ? Thats a good question

I have had my mac for the last three years and only upgraded to the new os so far. I install every new program that comes around so. So there is lot of junk on the machine now, so i wanted a clean start

Just found out this new site called moneysights.com which allow you to track your investments like stock and mutual funds.

The first thing you notice about this site is the clean interface. It just takes 30 seconds to sign up for the service. just give email & password and you account is created.

And investments is as easy as typing the details.

It has such clean interface. And comes with some cool extras that will help you invest better. It will show you in a graph you daily profit and loss etc.

If you want to dig deep it will give you more details in a much cleaner interface.

Loving the site so far, hope they keep the interface as clean as this. I am even willing to pay for this if they can keep it this clean.

I have used moneycontrol.com to track my investments before but their site is filled with so many ad’s that its hard to even use it.

So go sign up for moneysights.com and help they build a good financial site.

Apple’s WWDC will start on June 6th. Its just a few days away. Then why is Apple making so many announcements and releases.

With this Windows 8 demo Microsoft has made windows relevant again. This is how you make a OS that works for tablet and still have the features of PC.