Archive for the ‘MAC Tip’ Category


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 [...]

MAC Tip of the Month: Opening and Closing Applications

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

For an easy way to see what applications are currently open, press Command and Tab.
If you wish to quickly open an application, press Command and the Tab key and then hit the Tab key until you have selected that particular application.
To easily quit an application, press Command and Tab and tab over to the application [...]

MAC Tip of the Month: Dictionary

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

Did you know that a Dictionary was part of Mac OS X (10.4) and there is a really cool feature that not too many Mac users know about.
When you’re in a Mac native application (Safari, Mail, and iWork), if you hover your mouse over the word, and press Ctrl-Command-D on your keyboard, you will see [...]

MAC Tip of the Month: Annotating PDFs in Preview

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

Did you know that you can annotate PDFs using Preview on Mac OS X Leopard? It’s a fast and efficient way to share comments when collaborating on group projects.
Under Preview’s Tools menu, you’ll find the options Mark Up and Annotate. To use the Mark Up feature, choose Text tool from Preview’s toolbar then select the [...]

Where’s the Right Click?

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

MAC Tip of the Month: Where’s the Right Click?

You just purchased your first MAC and you are now having a panic attack because you just realized you don’t have the standard two-button mouse -so where is the right click?
Don’t despair, the “right click” function still exists. The default is to hold Control while [...]

MAC Application of the Month: ilovephotos.com

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

MAC Application of the Month: ilovephotos.com
What would you do if, as soon as you uploaded photos from your camera, they were immediately organized, labeled, and emailed to friends and family or your favorite on-line photo-sharing site?
This cool new beta site uses facial detection and an intelligent platform to make managing your photos easy as pie.
Thank [...]