• Mac OS X,  Mac Security

    Resetting Default Calendar App

    The ics file type. Apple isn’t the only one that builds applications that use it any longer and there have been a couple of instances where users install a 3rd party app only to find that their default calendar is no longer iCal. How to fix? Not a hard one. Simply locate a .ics file (there are typically plenty of these in ~/Library/Mail Downloads) and then do a Get Info on the .ics file (Get Info = command-i while clicked on the file). Once you have the Get Info box for the file up, click on the Open With field and select iCal. Then click on Change All. That should…

  • Mac OS X

    Change Default Application for File Types in OS X

    You can quickly and easily change the application that is used to open a specific file.  Simply click on the file fro the Finder and then select Get Info from the File menu (or click on the file and then use the Command-I keystroke).  Once there, click on the Open with: disclosure triangle to see the application that is currently being used to open the file.  You can click on the arrows to select a new application for that file. You can also use this same screen to change the application used to open all files of a type.  To do so, click on Change All…