Jul 07 2015
In ancient times, well ok the 1990’s, if an application failed it meant the whole Mac failed. You really did have the thrown the baby out with the bath water. But for a long time now you won’t lose the data in your unsaved* Excel spreadsheet if Word fails for some reason. If an application …
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Jun 01 2015
So you’d rather clean the shower with a toothbrush than reboot your mac because everytime you do half a dozen applications fire up making it a more tedious experience than watching an episode of Big Brother. There can be a couple of reasons for this and they are all easy to fix. A few years …
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Jun 01 2015
Think of your Dock like the preloaded radio stations on your car stereo. The icons sit there waiting for you to click on them when needed but removing those icons doesn’t delete the application in the same way as deleting Button 1 on your car stereo doesn’t demolishes KIX 106 (unfortunately) To add an icon to the dock …
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Apr 26 2015
A folder is like a draw. They are simple and self explanatory… you put stuff in them and thats where they stay and that’s all there is to it. But the Mac OS lets you create “smart” folders that turn the concept of the humble folder into something very different and a whole lot more useful. You’ll …
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Apr 25 2015
Since Lion each Mac has had the ability to convert voice to text and, in a small way, replace applications like Dragon Dictate. But, as Apple seems intent on hiding the power of its software it looks for all the world like it is a one trick pony. With Dragon you can highlight text, move around the …
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