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Can I Create Keyboard Shortcuts on my Mac?
You’re in luck and your boss will be happy too: MacOS X has a very slick keyboard shortcut system tucked into its settings that can let you specify that any key sequence should be transformed into any...
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Recovering Deleted Mac Files with iBeeSoft Data Recovery
In the early days of computing, files either were visible and part of your file system or they were gone. Deleted. No more. Which meant that backups were really important because there wasn’t any room...
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How to Share a Calendar with Apple iCal Calendar?
Apple Calendar – it’s not called iCal any more! – has some very slick sharing features that mean you can have shared and joint calendars accessible to only those people y0u invite. Or, if you’d like,...
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Is My MacBook Still Covered by AppleCare?
Apple has a good warranty for the first year of your Mac computer, so if your MacBook is less than 12mo old, you’re in great shape and you’re covered. If it’s more than a year old, however, then you’re...
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Convert an external Mac drive to APFS Apple File System?
File systems are one of the technologies we don’t think much about on a daily basis, but make our computers, phones, tablets, even DVRs work smoothly and efficiently. You might never have given it a...
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How to Unskew Photos On the Mac?
Unskewing is one of about a million different things that the wonderful Mac program GraphicConverter can accomplish. Haven’t heard of GraphicConverter? It’s the brainchild of a single programmer and it...
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How do I add a Google Font to my MacBook Air?
I can remember when you purchased typefaces one by one, and that there were companies offering up discounted collections because they acquired them cheaply. Turned out that each individual font was...
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Temporarily Disable Night Shift on a Mac?
I’m also a fan of “Night Shift” on the Mac system; it’s a smart and effortless way to filter out some of the blue spectrum light from your computer screen as the evening progresses so that your brain...
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Do you Trust your Mac to Keep your Personal Info Private?
Did you know that your ISP can actually monitor and view your online habits? Many ISPs do and it’s not even illegal for them to do so. It’s all because of how data travels through the internet (more on...
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CloudMounter: Mount Cloud Drives On Your Mac The Easy Way
Forty gigabytes. That’s how much space the mirrored folders on my Dropbox cloud account eat up on my local disk drive so I have quick access and can work offline. Except I am rarely actually not hooked...
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How to Remove Sennheiser Root Certificate from My Mac?
Actually, before I show you how to get rid of the possible bad root certificate, let’s start by putting this whole issue in context… I have at least a half-dozen pair of Sennheiser headphones and my...
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Set Up a Dynamic Desktop on my MacBook Air?
There are two primary ways you can set up a dynamic desktop on your MacOS X system, depending on what operating system you’re running and your aversion to having third party apps always running in the...
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Upgrade Your Mac Video Player with Elmedia Player
Audio, video, even photographs have ended up with a bewildering variety of different formats in the computer age. Music can be MP3, WAV, OGG, PCM, AIFF and AAC. There are dozens of video formats you...
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How Do I Update the Trusted Phone Number on my Apple ID Account?
Backup and recovery of accounts is somewhat of an Achilles heel with most long term accounts and Apple ID is pretty typical. We sign up and specify birthday, home address, recovery phone numbers and...
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Add Facebook Events to Mac iCal Calendar?
Turns out that you can indeed subscribe to your Facebook event calendar from within the Calendar program on your Mac system! In fact, the functionality has been there for so long that I last wrote...
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Can I Identify Songs Playing with my MacBook?
Fifteen years ago I would have just said you needed to know a lot about music to be able to identify what was playing at a bar, restaurant or coffee shop. Then a mobile phone app called Shazam came on...
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Can I Reorder Albums in iTunes on the Mac?
The iTunes program has been around a long time. I mean, a really long time. It was initially an indie program called SoundJam MP released by a small company called Casady & Greene in the late...
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How do I use Magnifier/Zoom on my Mac System?
As the resolution of screens keeps going up and computer users age, the two are leading to a situation where what’s known as assistive technologies are proving critically important for a wide swatch of...
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Can I Clean Up My Mac Context Menus?
Apple has put a lot of attention into almost every corner of the MacOS X experience and with hundreds of releases there’s been plenty of time to fine tune the experience, get rid of dead wood, and...
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Customize My MacOS X Notifications Center?
You ask a great question because too few people pay attention to the Notifications Center on their Mac systems, not realizing that it offers a great place to peek at your day and what’s going on. It’s...
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