Archive | August, 2008

Best Cell Phone

My sister-in-law is look­ing for advice on a new phone, but I haven’t been in the mar­ket for a few years. Could you throw in your opin­ions in the com­ments? If we get enough response, I’ll make a post with everyone’s reviews.

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Mac Tip of the Day: Email attachments quickly

Mac Tip of the Day: Email attachments quickly

If you’re look­ing for a quick and easy way to send email attach­ments there is no faster way than by using Mail. We all know the stan­dard way. Open Mail…Select New Message…click onthe Attach­ment Paper Clip icon…fill out your email…and Send. There is actu­ally a much quicker way to do this. Just take theattach­ment you would […]

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Tip of the Day: Spotlight

Tip of the Day: Spotlight

How often do you use “Spot­light”? This is one of the biggest gems in Mac OS since its Tiger (10.4) intro­duc­tion. To acti­vate Spot­light, you can either click on the mag­ni­fy­ing glass on the top right of your screen, or use the key­board short­cut: com­mand + space­bar.Once you acti­vate Spot­light, type in what you want […]

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Why I Quit Using Windows

Why I Quit Using Windows

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What’s Taking Up All That Space?

What’s Taking Up All That Space?

Alexa asks: I haven’t installed any­thing new. I haven’t added any large files to my com­puter. But I keep run­ning low on hard drive space! How do I find out what is tak­ing up all the room on my iBook? Apple’s Finder doesn’t cut it. It’ll tell you how much space is left on your hard […]

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Virus on a Mac?

So my older brother down­loaded some mali­cious soft­ware on my parent’s iMac. Boom: com­puter doesn’t work. My dad took it to the local Mac fix-it shop and they said they couldn’t revive it. For the record, he was using Win­dows through Boot Camp when he down­loaded said soft­ware. Mac’s don’t get viruses in their native […]

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