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HelpSet your iPhone alarm silently
It’s late at night, your spouse is already asleep, and you realise you before you go to bed that you need to set an iPhone alarm to wake you...
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HelpPreparing to sell your old Mac
There are many reasons why Macs are considered superior to PCs and there has been a massive surge in interest in Apple machines in recent years –...
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HelpiPad power: How to print
Among other things, the iPad is a great way to save paper: It lets you carry around all kinds of digital documents that you might otherwise have had...
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HelpRecord conversations with IMCapture for Skype
IMCapture recently released version 2.4.1 of its audio- and video-call-recording app for Skype. IMCapture for Skype lets you record any of your Skype...
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HelpOpen recent documents from the Help menu
You probably already know about the search box in the Help menu of virtually every Mac application. When you type some text in that box, the app will...
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HelpAn easy way to organise iOS apps
It can be more convenient to organise iOS apps and create folders using iTunes on your Mac than it is to do so on your iPhone or iPad itself. Among...
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HelpiPad power: Connect to a remote Mac
Plenty of iOS apps let you remotely access your Mac (as well as Windows and Linux PCs), and the iPad is an excellent platform for them: Because the...
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HelpQuicker avenues to System Preferences
I often need to change some of my Mac’s preferences, and I’m tired of all the trips to the Apple menu to select System Preferences. Know any shortcuts?...
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Help 2Get a credit card-free iTunes account
We recently gave our daughter an iPod touch for her birthday. She wants to download apps, but we’re not prepared to give her our credit card details....
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Help 1How to back up your Gmail
Google’s popular Gmail service provides free email accounts with plentiful storage, fast searching and access from any web browser. But keeping...
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Features 4Get your Mac ready for Lion
Now that Apple has released to developers the golden master of Lion (Mac OS X 10.7)—typically the final non-public version before the official release—speculation...
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Help 1Control iTunes from the command line with ViTunes
Maybe iTunes is just a little too graphic for your tastes, what with all those buttons and icons. If you long for the days when your software was...
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Help 5Facebook video calling: Get started
On Wednesday, Facebook announced three new features: group chat, which lets you message with multiple people in one window; an updated chat interface...
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Help 1Mac OS X 10.6.8 bug work-arounds
Now that Mac OS X 10.6.8 has been out for a couple of weeks, it’s a good time to check in and see what problems, if any, are being commonly reported....
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HelpTransferring Stickies from one Mac to another
Reader Wally Bock would like to unstick a collection of stickies on one Mac and plaster them to another. He writes: I use Stickies to remember and...
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HelpSocial Media: The one-click promotion
Social Media has changed the way we interact with the internet. We spend time sharing our thoughts, showing our photos and connecting with our friends...
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HelpSix unexpected uses for the Tab key
Pity the unassuming workhorse of the keyboard: The Tab key. Even the Shift key gets more respect. But just because it’s unpretentious, you shouldn’t...
