News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
Most of us know that formatting a table’s data, cells, and borders can potentially help readers grasp what a table is trying to say. But that doesn’t mean we know the best way to make it happen. When you need to create tables that contain essentially text, or when you want to customise a table’s formatting in many ways, Microsoft Word is often easier to use than a spreadsheet program such as Microsoft Excel. Here are some tricks for using Word's table options.
Kirk McElhearn | Jun 30, 2009
If part of your backup strategy includes cloning your Mac’s hard drive using a tool such as SuperDuper or CarbonCopyCloner, you’ll want to make sure that Spotlight isn’t active on that drive before you start cloning to it.
Rob Griffiths | Jun 29, 2009
If you really, really, really need to make sure your data gets erased, you have a few options built right into Mac OS X.
Christopher Breen | Jun 26, 2009
iPhoto ’09’s Places feature lets you organise and view photos by location. If you’ve got a newer higher-end digital camera, it may make this process painless—if the camera has a GPS chip, then iPhoto will read the GPS data when you import your pictures. But if you don’t have a GPS-enabled camera, the process of assigning a place for every photo can be really time consuming.
Rob Griffiths | Jun 24, 2009
When you’ve got a lot of music, you generally have no problem fitting it on your Mac, but you may run into problems syncing your iPod or iPhone. Depending on which model you own, you may not be able to put all your music on your portable device. There was a time when Apple sold an iPod classic that held 160GB of music, but the last refresh of the product line eliminated that version. The iPod classic is now available in the one-size-fits-all 120GB model only. Music lovers with large libraries, who had been hoping for a larger capacity iPod, are holding on to their 160GB classics and taking good care of them.
Kirk McElhearn | Jun 24, 2009
If you'd like to record audio messages from the Internet, but are getting nothing but silence using conventional applications, here's your solution.
Christopher Breen | Jun 24, 2009
App Store developers will now be able to reach customers in 13 new countries, according to an announcement on the iPhone Developer Program news page.
