MMS: noun. Abbreviation for Multimedia Messaging Service, an enhancement to the SMS (Short Messaging Service). In English: with MMS, you can still "text" someone, but now you can send a picture, or a video, or a sound. This feature was part of Apple's 3.0 upgrade a few months ago, and lots of people have been... Continue Reading →
Your Appointments, Sir
Here's how I use an AppleScript to look at my Calendar and then read the day's events to me out loud, every morning, automatically.
How to Use the Genius Mix feature in iTunes
Apple's new iTunes 9 has a couple of nice new features. One of the nicest is called "Genius Mixes." Previous versions of iTunes has Genius Playlists, which I knew about but never used because it didn't seem all that groovy, but Genius Mixes are exclusive to iTunes 9-- and they are very groovy.Before we learn... Continue Reading →
Your Photo on NationalGeographic.com
Hey, photographers: National Geographic wants YOU. Rather, they want your pictures. Only if they're good though. Every day they publish "The Daily Dozen" online, twelve photos submitted by regular people. Maybe even you. Some of the photos selected for the Daily Dozen will also be published in National Geographic's print edition. Here's the link to... Continue Reading →
Sports Calendars for iCal and iPhone
Get sports calendars onto your iPhone and Mac, from Rivals.Yahoo.com.
Scroll through Mail messages the easy way
You learned way back in July of 2008 that pressing the spacebar in Safari will scroll the window down. You also learned that holding the shift key and pressing the spacebar in Safari will scroll the window up. I just figured out that the same moves work in Apple’s Mail program. Press the spacebar to... Continue Reading →
Time Machine to the rescue
I mentioned in a previous post that installed 10.6 “Snow Leopard” on my MacBook, didn’t like it, and “rolled back” to 10.5.8. Rolling back meant using Time Machine, and I’m here to sing its praises and to talk you into using it. What’s Time Machine? Time Machine is backup software provided as part of Mac... Continue Reading →
Command-D, your time-saving friend
I’ll bet you’ve seen a dialog box like this before: Or maybe like this one: Or this one: You probably already know the keyboard shortcut that lets you click the Save button without using the mouse: you hit Enter, or Return. That’s great, when you want it. But what about the rest of the time?... Continue Reading →
More About the Dock (part 2)
Here's a one-step drag-and-drop method for sending a file as an attachment. In one move, you generate an email with the attachment. So easy.
More About the Dock (part 1)
I wrote about the Dock (“Hickory Dickory Dock”) in July of last year. It was a decent little article and the stuff I wrote then is still helpful today. Lately, though, I’ve noticed that a lot of Mac users are unaware of some of the Dock’s finer points. Here, then, is More About the Dock... Continue Reading →