Share a Printer Wirelessly Using Your AirPort Express

These are instructions on how to share your USB printer wirelessly via your Apple AirPort Express. Step One Configure your AirPort Express to create a new network. Step Two Connect your printer to the AirPort Express via USB cable. Step Three Launch AirPort Utility from your Applications:Utilities folder. Step Four Select your AirPort Express from the list on the left and confirm that it has detected your USB Printer. Step Five Select Preferences from the Apple Menu at the...

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Change Your Boot Disk in OS X

To change the disk your computer boots from is easy. You can do this right from System Preferences in Mac OS X Leopard. You might want to do this if you want to boot from an external disk or network drive. Follow these steps: Step One Select System Preferences from the Apple menu at the top left hand corner of the screen. Step Two Select the Startup Disk icon from the System Preferences window. Step Three The Startup Disk Preference Window will popup. Step Four Click the...

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Partition a Hard Drive Using Mac OS X Disk Utility

These are instructions on how to partition a hard drive using Mac OS X Disk Utility. Step One If your hard drive is an external drive, connect it to the computer. Launch Disk Utility from the Applications:Utilities folder. Step Two From the list on the left select the drive you would like to format Step Three Click to select the Partition tab. Step Four From the Volume Scheme dropdown select the number of partitions you would like to create on the drive. Step...

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Convert a DMG to ISO Using Terminal

These are instructions on how to convert a DMG image file to an ISO image file using Mac OS X Terminal. You may want to do this if you need to burn a DMG image using a Windows or Linux operating system. Step One Place the DMG you would like to convert on your desktop then open a new Finder window by clicking its icon in the dock. Step Two Click to select Applications from the list of Places on the left. Step Three Double click to open the Utilities folder from list...

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Spoof Your Airport MAC Address in Snow Leopard

These are instructions on how to change or spoof your wireless adapter's MAC address in Snow Leopard. A Media Access Control address (MAC address) is a unique identifier assigned to most network adapters or network interface cards.  Please note these instructions worked for us with a MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard 10.6.2. We cannot confirm that they will work for other operating systems or devices. Step One Launch Terminal from your Applications:Utilities folder. Step Two Enter ifconfig...

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