Apple's 10.5.7 update for the Mac is out. Here's what's in it, and how to get it. Recommended: the "combo" update.
Bigger is Better: Mail
Here's how you change the size of the text of incoming Mail messages, and the size of the text in the message list.
Bigger is Better: Safari
(First in a series.)A couple of weeks ago Mom was asking me how to make things bigger on her Mac. Naturally I had her select Displays from the System Preferences (under the Apple), and in there I had her choose any size that WASN’T the one with the largest numbers. Just as naturally, Mom didn’t... Continue Reading →
iPhone Super Tips
Here are some of my favorite iPhone tips. Try ‘em and let me know what you think.Press the Home button and you go to the “Home” screen you were most recently on. Press the Home button again and you go to the FIRST PAGE of the Home screens.Capture whatever’s on your iPhone’s screen by holding... Continue Reading →
Tip of the Day: Address Book “Smart Groups”
If there’s one feature of Apple’s Address Book that is overlooked by almost everyone it’s Smart Groups. The regular kind of Group is handy, and you should read up on them (try going to the Help menu in Address Book and looking for “Groups”). In a nutshell, you add people to a Group manually, by... Continue Reading →
iPhone idea of the Week
So brilliantly simple, today’s idea is this: use your iPhone to take a picture of where your car is parked. When you return, have a look at the picture, and that’s that. It’s a huge help in those huge parking structures-- just get a photo showing “B45” or whatever the sign is next to your... Continue Reading →
10.5.6 update– do it (my way)
Apple’s released the 10.5.6 update, so naturally I am getting zillions of calls about whether it’s safe to install or not. It is. Just be careful, as usual. Do it like this:Restart your computer.Find the Disk Utility (in the Utilities folder, in the Applications folder, on your hard disk) and “repair permissions.” If you don’t... Continue Reading →
iFixit.com
What a cool website, and gee don’t I wish I’d found it before I took apart that iBook and couldn’t put it back together again. Click the picture and have a look.How-to manuals. Parts. Friendly tips. cboyce says “Check it out.”(Here’s the manual I should have read before taking apart the iBook):
Free AT&T WiFi for iPhones
AT&T is now providing free WiFi connections (many times faster than the Edge and 3G networks) in "thousands of hotspots nationwide."
Stuff You Ought to Know
Newer Macs come with little pictures on the function keys (top row of keys, with names like “F1”) and they are supposed to tell you what the keys do. The pictures aren’t all that clear, and on older keyboards the pictures aren’t there at all. Here are some explanations.Newer keyboards:F1: make the screen dimmerF2: make... Continue Reading →