By Christian Boyce. Helping people with their Apple stuff since 1987.
After months of hard work the iWork ’09 Missing Manual is now available. Here’s a modified version of the cover: Frankly, I think it’s fantastic, and not just because I was involved in it. Josh Clark has written a superb book and you are going to want to read it cover to cover. Click here... Continue Reading →
You might not have heard but there’s a recession on. People are looking for work. For myself, I had the brilliant idea of searching the job postings on www.craigslist.org every day for Mac-related stuff, but quickly found that craigslist is sort of picky about search terms, and if you aren’t careful, you’ll miss stuff. For... Continue Reading →
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.
It’s taken nine months but here, finally, is Stuff I Like, part 2. (Stuff I Like, part 1 was about PowerSupport Anti-Glare Film-- now called "Tru Protection"* Anti-Glare film.)You can read all about these programs at their websites, so I’m not going to go into great detail here. I will give you a short summary... Continue Reading →
Here's how you change the size of the text of incoming Mail messages, and the size of the text in the message list.
(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 →
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 →
There are many to-do list programs for the Mac. And there are many to-do list programs for the iPhone. But there aren’t many to-do list programs for the Mac that synchronize with the iPhone, an essential feature if you ask me.Actually, there are two Mac to-do list programs that have synchronizing counterparts on the iPhone:... Continue Reading →
A new version of iWork is out! Pages, Numbers, and Keynote. Every Mac user should use these, or at least know how to. These are nice apps.
I mean to try every part of iLife 09: iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, iWeb, and Garage Band. Hard to do it all in one sitting so we’ll take it a piece of a time. Tonight’s installment: iPhoto 09.iPhoto 09 retains the familiar look of iPhoto 08 (and others) so if you’d used iPhoto before this new... Continue Reading →
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