Category: Mac

Mail Folders

I once walked into a friends house, a house I have visited often, and remarked on the painting on her wall. “That looks lovely”, I said. “Really goes well with the colour of the wall.” She looked at me, quite reasonably I think, with doubt and concern. That painting has been there for 5 years! …

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Outlook.com yes – Outlook, No

To stave off confusion I need to make something clear from the outset. I have been going around town promoting the use of outlook.com and outlook.com.au as an alternative email service to combat iinet, Telstra and just about every other email service being canned. Outlook, as a email address is absolutely fine. But, as you …

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Don’t seek out your Keychain

Apple is very fond of keeping things simple. Double click on an app and it just works – usually. Generally stuff is exactly where you’d expect it to be and do what you’d expect it to do. But beneath the glitz and gooey glamor lies a metric ton of really odd and confusing folders, applications …

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Edit a photo in Photos

I have long been a critic of the editing tools found in Photos and iPhoto before it. They were limited in their scope and worked about as well as a handbrake made of pastry. So I forgot about them and, like a fool, purchased things like Photoshop Elements or suffered the excruciating interface of the …

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Duplicates fixed – finally

There has been a long history of developers inventing and delivering enhancements and services for the Mac that Apple left out. Then, not long after these developers have sunk their money into expensive houses and car loans, Apple comes along with the same feature “incorporated” into the latest OS. Affectively killing the developers golden goose. …

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