Tag Archive for "tips" - Macworld Australia

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Three signs an app is user-unfriendly

A user-friendly interface is paramount if you want employees and external users to adopt an enterprise application. But what, precisely, makes an...

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Apple’s tips for a top Australia Day

Grab a towel and head to the nearest beach; turn up and count down Triple J’s Hottest 100; throw whatever you have on the barbie and enjoy the...

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Understanding Lion’s Autosave

We all have the same story, the one about the time we were working on a document but forgot to hit Save and then something happened and we lost all...

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Regulate what you share on Facebook’s Timeline

Facebook launched the next stage of its Open Graph and Timeline ;ast week, offering more than 60 new third-party applications that let users share...

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Get the most out of Lion’s Spotlight

The Spotlight menu, at the far right of your menu bar, is even more useful in OS X Lion because it offers new ways to work with search results. Click...

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How to access Wikipedia in a blackout

Numerous sites across the internet are going dark in protest of the SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) legislation currently before the House of Representatives,...

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What to do when new apps and old iOS devices clash

Reader Steve Paulson finds that old and new iOS devices don’t always mix in pleasing ways. He writes: I have a second-generation iPod touch. Several...

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Change your Mac’s system voice

Thanks to Siri on the iPhone 4S, people are quickly getting used to hearing gadgets talk. Your Mac can talk, too. For using your Mac everyday, there’s...

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Fixing Mac App Store download errors

When you purchase an app from the Mac App Store, it normally downloads and installs exactly as expected. But not always. One error that has cropped...

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How to create a Gmail app on your Mac

Fluid is an app from developer Todd Ditchendorf. It lets you turn web apps into Mac apps, by creating something called Site Specific Browsers –...

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Partition your hard drive with data still on it

Reader Kevin Riley has a splitting dilemma. He writes: I have a 1TB FireWire hard drive that is about a quarter full. I’d like to partition the...

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Using services in Mac OS X

One of the little-known time-saving features of Mac OS X is services – hidden, single-feature commands that you can access from a special Services...

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How to sync iCloud with Windows Outlook

Reader H. Thomas Staton is attempting to help a wayward relative. He writes: My son-in-law has a Windows PC and uses Outlook. He now has both an iPad...