Sibelius is the best music writing program on the market for any iMac user. This is the easiest and the faster way to write music. It has a lot of great features including: magnetic layout that provides you just the right space to write and avoids collisions, so you have the possibility to write very fast.

You also have the possibility to keep track of your writing and also to leave comments or notes for yourself and to make the changes you want. The Live Tempo feature allows you to make the playback of your score, all you have to do is to tap a key on your personal computer and the program follows your beat. You can playback your interpretation because every little of it is recorded.

The program uses amazing sampled sounds to playback, just press the space bar and you will wear high quality music sounds. You have the possibility to customize the playback by using the Mixer and combine the effects you want (jazz, choral, orchestral and more). You can also choose from virtual instruments and sounds like gunshot or music box.

Maybe you like to use your guitar or your keyboard for notation and if you do, the program provides new windows where you can click the keys to write the music you want. You can also play your iMac’s QWERTY key just like a real piano. This is a very cool feature and it is also great for teaching. You can reside the windows to make them bigger of smaller and you can scroll through octaves.

You can create very easy guitar chord diagrams or chord symbols using your computer keyboard, MIDI guitar or MIDI keyboard. It is very easy to create a chord, all you have to do is to play in on the MIDI instrument you have or type in your iMac keyboard. You can also choose the appearing of the chords from guitar diagram, chord symbol or both together.

The program has built in more than 600 chord types which you can find in the chord library and you can design your own diagrams which you can add to the library and use them when you need them or delete them. On Sibelius website you will find a lot more information about this music writing program for your iMac and you will also find the version for students, called Sibelius Student (this is one of the best programs for music homework), Groovy Music ( a program for beginners), O-Generator Learning to Compose ( a program that helps you write pop songs and rock songs) and more.

Other music writing programs for you iMac are on the Finale Music website. Here you will find programs like NotePad, Finale SongWriter, PrintMusic, Finale and more, programs that will help you write the music you want. For example, Finale is one of the best music notation programs providing you many great and useful features.

PrintMusic is designed for composers, performing musicians and educators. This program is easy to learn and use. If you are a song writer, Finale SongWriter is the software for you because is very easy to use and to learn. You can import and export your MIDI files and you can enter music with your computer keyboard or mouse.

MacBook Pro is a great laptop with many great features, but sometimes there is trouble in paradise, meaning that even MacBook can have some problems. One of the problems MacBook Pro has is the fact that its keyboard doesn’t respond from time to time.

We are sure that many of you had at least once this kind of problem with their MacBook Pro and you find yourselves in the situation when the trackpad works just fine, but the keyboard is not working. The simplest solution to this problem is to restart the laptop and it works most of the time, because the problem is not the keyboard itself it the whole laptop, maybe the operating system has a problem or maybe a new software or application just installed make your MacBook Pro keyboard non-functional.

This isn’t just a MacBook problem, many computers have it and many times it is about the operating system or new software installed. If your keyboard responds after you restarted your computer, this could be the case we are talking about, but if the keyboard randomly stops responding and then starts to work like nothing happened, you should call AppleCare because it could be a bigger problem.

If your keyboard is unresponsive and after you restarted your MacBook Pro works just fine, try to download the latest software available for your operating system including keyboard update and see if the software just installed makes your keyboard work. If you can’t work with your trackpad try a USB keyboard or a wireless keyboard.

If your keyboard still doesn’t work after the restart and after the update, you should try to take out the battery of your MacBook Pro. You shouldn’t to this if your computer still has warranty, because you will lose it, but if it doesn’t have you can try to take out the battery all by yourself. We are saying this, because we found a forum online (check out Ibarclay.wordpress.com) where a MacBook user said that he found out the solution to its unresponsive MacBook Pro keyboard by removing the battery and seeing that the brown/darker orange cable was the one causing all the problems. The cable became warped because it had heated up to much and when the cable was pressed down the keyboard worked perfectly.

If you see this problem you should go to an authorized service to fix the cable, but if you need a temporary fix you should try to get a small piece of Scotch tape or any sticky tape and try to put the cable back into its place by rolling it up with the tape. After you did that, see if the keyboard is working by pressing the Caps Lock key.

If the keyboard is working put the battery back so that it presses on the ribbon cable and the sticky or the Scotch tape. In case you don’t want to mess around with your MacBooks Pro battery then you should take it to a service or try to press hard on the Caps Lock key and see if the keyboard works after that. We hope that this article will help you find the solution if your MacBook Pro keyboard is not working.

PCs and laptops are made to work 24/7, but if you always leave your computer on there are some things you should know. If you work a lot of time on your MacBook Pro, even if it is day or night, it normal to leave it plugged in all the time. It is important to see the difference between leaving a laptop on and putting it to sleep or in stand by.

If you leave your computer on for a long period of time and you are not working on it, the display will finally turn off after a preset period of time, but your computer’s hard drive will continue to work, this happens for example when you want to download something from the Internet and you leave the computer to do it without working on it. The display of your laptop will turn off (to save some energy), but the Internet connection will be available and your hard drive will continue to work because your computer is downloading something.  There isn’t any problem if you keep your MacBook Pro on all the time, but it is important what your computer is doing in the mean time, because if it is overheating over and over again this could mean trouble.

The things you should know are that your MacBook Pro is using a lot of electricity if you always leave it on and you should keep all the vents clear and don’t run all day CPU intensive task, because they could overheat your laptop.  An option could be to put your laptop to sleep, this doesn’t mean shut down, because when a computer in on the sleep mode all the applications, the hard drive, the CPU are in stand by mode, which means that they are not turned off and they are waiting for your command.

If you don’t use your laptop over night, you should keep it in sleep mode because the computer will use less electricity and if you need to do something very fast on your computer, all you have to do is to press a button and the computer will be awakened and will wait for your command.

Also if your computer has the hibernate option, you can put it in to hibernate mode, because it is better than just to keep it on. The hibernating mode is faster than a normal boot and you will have all the data saved the way you left it. If you want your laptop’s battery to work well, you should let it run out completely once a month and this means that you have to unplug your computer. And when you want to charge it, you should turn it off, because if you charge it while you are using it will take a longer time to charge and your computer will keep emitting heat. Overall, it is all right to leave your MacBook Pro or any Mac on all the time, but at least once a month you should let the battery run out completely and turn it off for just one night.

Spyware is some kind of malware that has the possibility to collect little pieces of your data or your information stored on your personal computer. Once the spyware is installed it can collect the data without your knowledge and it is very difficult to detect. Many spyware programs go beyond simple monitoring of your computer, they can also collect personal information like the site you like to visit or they can install additional malware on your computer. The spyware programs have the possibility to change your computer settings, to open different home pages or to slow down your Internet connection.

When it comes to MacBooks or any Mac computer, spyware is a bigger threat then a computer virus, so we advise that you use anti-spyware programs to protect your computer and your data. With today’s threats and technology is very hard to draw the line between viruses and spyware, so many anti-virus software could be the solution.

Online you will find a lot of free antispyware for you MacBook Pro or any Mac model. For example, we found MacScan a free antispyware software that protects your privacy and your data. This software detects and removes spyware without slowing down your computer. The program also detects cookies and deletes them without losing personal data like passwords or other information you need. It can also delete the history files from your Internet browsers and it does all that without needing a lot of your computer resources. You have the possibility to setup the scans at different times and days.

Another free anti-spyware program for your MacBook Pro is McAfee VirusScan. This is also an anti-virus program that guards your computer against worms, viruses, Trojans and spyware programs. The software is easy to use and it automatically checks for updates, so you know that your computer is protected every time.

ProtectMac Antivirus 1.0.5 is available for a 30-day free trial, so you can try it for free to see if this is the best anti-spyware program for your computer. As the name implies, this is also anti-virus software, but it also protects your data and information against spyware.  The software gives you the possibility to scan any are of your computer, to setup background scans and to manage any threats you find.

You can also customize the installation and it has the ability to scan any location or device right from Finder. The ProtectMac Antivirus intercepts every file and any application that has been closed, opened or copied, so when a threat is discovered you will see a warning dialog appearing on your computer’s screen. This software works both on Mac and Windows and you need to have at least 256 MB RAM memory and 100MB free space of your hard drive. Other good anti-spyware programs are: iAntivirus, avast! and Norton Antivirus for Mac. You can find them online, iAntivitus is free to download and the other two can be found with 30-day free trials.

If you have ever wondered how to you erase cookies on your MacBook, this article will give you the information you need and the steps to take. Before we do that, let’s see what cookies mean; because everyone talks about them, but not everyone know what they mean.

So, a cookie (also called browser cookie or tracking cookie) is a small text or a small piece of text stored on your personal computer by the web browser you are using. Cookies are not malware, because they are not executable which means that they can’t multiply themselves and they are not spyware or computer viruses, but they can slow down your computer. Everyone has cookies on their computer, because everyone uses the Internet or receives files from the Internet.

If you are using a MacBook you can erase cookies in 3 different ways. The first one is to delete them using Safari; to do that you have to open Safari and to click on “Preferences” option. When the dialog box appears, look for an icon called “Security” and click on it. Then you will see a page opening and you have to go under the preferences called “Accept Cookies” and you have to select the option “Show Cookies”.

This action will show you all the cookies you have stored on your computer. You have to possibilities: you can delete all the cookies at once or you can select the ones you want to delete and leave the rest. To delete all the cookies in the list, click on the “Remove” option and select “Remove all”, if you want to remove one cookie at a time, you have to highlight the cookies you want and click on the “Remove” button.

After that you can click on the “Done” button, close the Preferences box and continue surfing on the web. This is for those of you who are using Safari as their Internet browser, but many of you use Firefox on their MacBook, so in the next line we will tell you how to erase cookies in Firefox.

The first step is to select the “Preferences” option and when the dialog box appears look for the icon called “Privacy” and click on it. Then you have to select the “Show Cookies” option which will show you all the cookies stored in your web browser. Deleting the cookies uses the same step in Firefox as in Safari, so if you want to delete all the cookies click on the “Remove all Cookies” option and if you want to delete individual cookies highlight them and click on the “Remove Cookies” option.

As you can see is very easy to delete cookies, but if you want to have a program that does all the work, you will find online a lot of software that automatically delete the cookies from your computer. For example, you can try Mac Cleanse – a software that removes web site history, cookies, caches, file history and more. Other software are: CookieCrumbler, Delete Cookies, Auto Clear Cookies, Cookie Editor, Real Clear Cookies, Super Clear Cookies, Cookie Killer and more.