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Eight ways to connect to a server
When you have to copy files from one Mac to another, make big files available to others, or get files from your company’s shared volumes, you need...
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Features
Q&A: Chatting with Disney about hit iOS game Where’s My Water?
Disney’s hit mobile game Where’s My Water? has dominated the App Store’s charts since coming to iOS a little over a year ago. The physics-based...
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Photographing food? It’s easy as pie
These days it seems as if everyone is taking photos of their food and uploading the images to Twitter – before they’ve taken their first bite....
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10 tips to take control of audio on your Mac
Your Mac is purpose made for multimedia creation and consumption. Built in tools help you manage and organise documents, photos, videos and audio....
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Seven great Gmail tips
When it comes to managing your email, Google’s free Gmail is easily one of the most efficient tools around. Over the years, Google has reinforced...
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When the size column does matter
Reader Craig Moyer longs for a Finder feature he could once invoke via clever hack. He writes: I’d like the Size column to always appear before...
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How to use Terminal to speed up Mountain Lion
If you’ve tried everything else and still want to make your Mac run faster, roll up your sleeves, crack your knuckles and prepare to take on a challenge....
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How to shrink Preview files and maintain image quality
Savvy Preview users know they can do some interesting things to PDFs – convert them to black-and-white or sepia tone, increase or decrease their...
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iTunes tips 101
I get lots of questions about some of the basics of iTunes. These are things that may not be that obvious, but are practical to know and can make...
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Blogs
Final Cut Pro X part 4 – disaster strikes (almost)
I’d been working on a 60-minute doco for the last six months with no real problems. Until a month or so ago when a weird freeze-up occurred...
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How to kick the Instagram habit
Is your phone filled with a library of orange-hued photos? Do you see a potential vintage effect on everything around you? Do you catch yourself thinking...
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Two Mountain Lion bugs that crash apps
As a follow-up to the article we posted on Mountain Lion troubleshooting, here are two more OS X 10.8 bugs for your collection. Both of these critters...
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Create a constellation of star-trail photos with almost any camera
If you’re a space geek like me, you know that this has been a great season. Not only did we get to witness the extraordinary transit of Venus...
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How to reduce glare on your iMac
The Macworld Lab handles a lot of hardware. Eventually, something’s going to break, and you hope that it’s something inconsequential or easy to...
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Nine tips for taming text in Pages
Far more than Apple’s “version of Word,” Pages is full of powerful, time-saving features that help you make great word processing documents...
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15 tips to manage your email
Email brings us instant communication with the world at large. You can send an email to pretty much anybody these days; and get a reply within hours...
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Ask the iTunes guy: iTunes Store questions
Among the many questions we’ve received about iTunes, a large number of them are about the iTunes Store. There are questions about iTunes Store...





