Archive for the ‘MAC Tip’ Category


MAC Tip of the Month: Emailing Web Pages

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

You just ran across a web page that you would like to share with a client or colleague – did you know that you can send the page itself instead of the link? Just press Command – I and a dialog box will appear asking for the email address of the person you want to [...]

MAC Tip of the Month: iPhone App – CardStar

Friday, June 11th, 2010

MyCardstar.com – Leave those bulky plastic “reward cards” and “club cards” at home! This CardStar App lets you easily store, manage and quickly retrieve your reward, club, and loyalty cards on your smart phone, where they [...]

MAC Tip of the Month: Emailing a PDF

Tuesday, May 11th, 2010

You prepared a proposal and you were asked to email a pdf right away. In MAC OS X you can create and send a pdf in seconds.

Choose Print from the File menu
Click the drop-down PDF menu and choose Mail PDF
Enter a subject, an email address and click Send

MAC Tip of the Month: Remove Attachments

Monday, April 19th, 2010

Since we are cleaning ‘house’ this month, let’s not forget about our computer.
The attachments you receive in email or in the outgoing messages in your Sent mailbox, can chew up a lot of disk space. Did you know that Mail can remove attachments from stored messages. Important to note: if you have already saved a [...]

Mac Tip of the Month: Look Inside Multiple Folders Automatically

Monday, March 15th, 2010

You’re in List View and you are searching for a file but just not sure which folder it is in. A fast way – Command – click on all the folders you would like to expand, then press Command – Right Arrow. All the folders will expand at once.
If the file is not in the [...]

MAC Tip of the Month: Mail Older Than One Year

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

If you have mail that is older than one year, it is clogging up your inbox and taking up some valuable computer space. There is a feature in Mail called Smart Mailbox which helps you do some fast email house cleaning.
Control-Click on the email account (of your inbox if you don’t have multiple accounts), choose [...]

MAC Tip: Send Again

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

You just sent an email to a group of individuals and later realize you forgot to include someone. Instead of going through the trouble of opening the message through your Sent box, copying it’s contents, and then pasting the text into a new email message there is a much easier way.
Select the original message, choose [...]

MAC Tip of the Month: Adding Holidays to iCal

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

Here is a simple way to add holidays to your iCal.

Open this link in your web browser – webcal://ical.mac.com/ical/US32Holidays.ics
Select iCal and hit OK
A box appears – Subscribe to Calendar, click on Subscribe
A new calendar will be created – US Holidays and hit OK

Holidays should now appear in your calendar. Just make sure you have a [...]

MAC Tip: Customizing Your Mighty Mouse

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

Whether you’re using a wired or wireless Mighty Mouse, you can customize it easily:

Choose System Preferences from the Apple menu.
Click Keyboard & Mouse; then click the Mouse tab.
You can program the four buttons on your Mighty Mouse, set scrolling options, and set response sensitivities for tracking, scrolling, and double-clicking.

MAC Tip: Mac OS X Dock

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

The Mac Dock is that strip of icons located at the bottom of your computer screen. The Dock is a place where you store the icons for the applications that you use frequently. Did you know that you can move the Dock to the left or right side and you can even make it smaller [...]

MAC Tip: Giving Your Photo’s Keywords

Monday, October 26th, 2009

If you’re using Preview to sort through all those family photos, here is a helpful feature – the ability to add keywords to your photos. These keywords will even show up in Spotlight, so if you want to search your hard disk for images using keywords, you can.
Here’s how it works: When you have an [...]

MAC Tip: Keyboard Shortcuts

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

Command – Right Arrow: Go to the end of the line
Command – Left Arrow: Go to the beginning of the line
Command – Down Arrow: Go to the end of all text
Command – Up Arrow: Go to the beginning of all text
Option Left Arrow: Go to beginning of current or previous word
Note: Add Shift to any [...]