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Herald: A Better Apple Mail Notification Tool
If you get a lot of email flowing into your mailbox, you might have gotten a bit fed up with the standard Apple Mail notification window. It’s small, it’s not particularly useful, and there’s nothing...
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How Do You Rate & Review an iTunes Podcast?
First off, you’re a good friend to go through these hoops and help your friend gain visibility and listeners to his podcast. Before you review it, however, you are actually listening to an episode or...
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How I saved $50 on AppleCare and You Can Too!
Any long time Apple device owner knows that AppleCare is one of the best purchases you can make. Whether it’s simple things like a worn out keycap or more serious problems like a display breaking or a...
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Create Mac User Account with Parental Controls?
Props to you for paying attention and realizing that setting up multiple accounts is not only a smart way to manage your children’s use of the computer but it also protects your own files and app...
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How do I mirror my Mac display with a projector?
Hooking up a projector to your MacBook Pro or MacBook Air is actually remarkably similar to plugging in a second monitor or display, both in the physical cables and in the software configuration tweaks...
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Convert Keynote slides to 16:9 widescreen format?
First, the bad news: It’s going to be a pain to convert all your slides. The way that Keynote converts from the default 4:3 layout to a 16:9 layout is to add a bunch of empty space on both slides of...
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How to Enable Night Shift on MacOS X?
There’s a lot of research that shows that blue light wavelengths interfere with your normal production of cortisol and that it can therefore adversely affect your sleep patterns, as you suggest. You...
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How to Update and Patch Microsoft Word for Mac?
You’re right that there is a brand new exploit in the wild that’s particularly malicious and targets Microsoft Word users. In fact, it appears to be something that can affect MacOS X users of Microsoft...
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MacOS: Turn a PDF into a Password-Protected PDF?
You are smart to be cautious with something as revealing as a W9 tax document. After all, it has your full name, street address and Tax ID or Social Security Number, a veritable gold mine of...
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How do I quickly cancel iTunes Match?
Well, there’s good news and bad news. The good news is that it’s pretty easy to mark your subscription to iTunes Match not to renew when your renewal time rolls around, but as far as I can tell, the...
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Find Nearby Stores with Apple Maps?
For all the grief that Apple got when it switched from Google Maps to its own Apple Maps on the iPhone, turns out that the mapping data and software is pretty darn slick. Of course, the user experience...
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How do I resize photographs in MacOS X?
I bet your friend is exactly right. Modern smartphones and digital cameras work at such high resolutions that the resultant images can be enormous. Your computer is probably running at 1920 pixels of...
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How do I add birthdays to Apple Calendar?
It sounds like you haven’t realized that Apple Calendar [yes, formerly known as iCal ] is getting its birthday data from your Contacts. It’s rather smart, actually; as you add someone to your iPhone...
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Watch iTunes Movies without iTunes DRM?
Generally speaking, well, yeah, you’re out of luck. Just like many other video services, Apple has what’s called a digital rights management (DRM) system in place to ensure that you don’t watch iTunes...
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Does Google Chrome Support the Mac Touchbar?
Your timing in asking this question is splendid because as of the writing of this post, the very latest version of Google Chrome – version 60 – does indeed support the Mac TouchBar and in fact, adding...
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How Can I Add Lyrics to a Song in iTunes?
Who doesn’t like to sing along to their favorite performer, whether it’s in your car, in the shower or as you’re working in the kitchen? Heck, I’m pretty sure when I’m singing that I’m ready for my 15...
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Can I Customize my Mac Folder Icons?
Few people notice when they’re installing applications on their Mac system that developers are about the only people who seem to customize their icons, whether a folder, application or data file. As...
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Create Password-Protected ZIP Archive on a Mac?
Your client is right to be skeptical of the encryption used on Dropbox. Security experts aren’t impressed, and I know that if you upload a file with a “hash” analysis that matches a file that was...
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Send an Apple Maps location to my iPhone?
You’re not alone in finding the process of typing on a modern smartphone more than a little pain in the, um, finger. For all the advances we’ve seen in the last decade, it’s hard to get around the...
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Can my Mac Automatically Sleep and Wake Up?
Interesting. The energy and power saving settings on Mac systems should automatically have the systems go to sleep after a period of zero use, and then the displays shut off just a short while later....
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