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Apple Announces…

October 20, 2010

Lots of new goodies announced by apple today, including a completely revised MacBook Air line, iLife ’11, and FaceTime (still in beta) allowing video chat between a Mac running FaceTime and an IOS device that is FaceTime capabable. MacBook Air 4 Models, 2 sizes comprise the new line, all with flash-storage, solid state internal drives [...]

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Use the OS X Mail doc icon to work with email

October 19, 2010

The dock icon for Apple’s Mail app shows you how many messages ready to read, but it does a lot more. Control-clicking on the dock icon, or right-clicking until the menu comes up will allow you to get new mail, to compose a new message, or to compose a new note. Mail does have to [...]

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Firefox Security Alert for Windows Users

October 11, 2010

New malware called Trojan-PWS-Nslog was discovered by Webroot, an computer security company. This new malware forces Firefox to save user passwords, and then uses the passwords to create a new user account on the infected computer. Firefox has had security issues in the past, and the recommendation from most security experts is to NOT have [...]

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Safari 5 Reader shortcuts

September 28, 2010

I love Safari 5′s Reader feature. The ability to take a web page with ads and graphics interrupting the text and make it into a readable text-only page is very useful, and it’s a lot easier to copy and paste text to a document. I just found out that Reader has keyboard shortcuts, to make [...]

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iTunes 10.0.1 released

September 27, 2010

Apple released iTunes 10.0.1 to fix a number of bugs in the original iTunes 10 release. The bugs include: Performance problem with visualizers Empty library or playslist problem Incompatibility with third-party shared libraries Video image quality changes related to on-screen control visibility unexpected quits when viewing album artwork in separate window The new release is [...]

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New Safari Autofill Privacy Flaw

July 24, 2010

Apple is working to fix a security flaw in Safari that could allow a web site to grab names, email addresses and other info from visitors, no matter if the visitor volunteers the the info or not. The AutoFill feature in Safari is very convenient, and is turned on by default, but has recently been [...]

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Add PDFs to iTunes for easy syncing

July 10, 2010

This tip comes from Macworld, and makes easy to add a web site or article to your iPhone/iPod (running iOS4) or your iPad. Add PDFs to iTunes for easy syncing by Whitson Gordon, Macworld.com If you have iTunes 9.2 and iOS4 installed on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch, the iBooks app can view PDF [...]

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Travel safety tip – don’t lose your documents!

July 10, 2010

When I travel I always carry photocopies of my passport, drivers license, travelers checks, credit cards, etc. I mentioned this in a newsletter recently, and Richard Gordon emailed me with an addendum… The value of copying the contents of your wallet, passport, and other important identity papers is obvious… as is the idea of photocopying [...]

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Hold, on the iPhone 4

July 7, 2010

The hold button is gone from the iPhone 4, but you can still put a call on hold. Press the Mute button and hold it down for a few seconds. If you tap the Mute button, it simply cuts of audio from your phone’s mike. Hold cuts off audio from both sides of the call.

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Recent Items in Apple Menu – Show in Finder

June 30, 2010

Tip: Show Apple menu ‘recent items’ in the Finder Thanks to MacFixIt and Tohper Kessler for this great tip One of the most common uses for the Apple menu has been to quickly launch utilities, system settings, and programs. Starting with its early implementations in the classic Mac OS, you used it to access the [...]

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