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Can I Control my AppleTV from my MacBook?
There are a surprising number of different ways you can control an AppleTV box, actually. One of the best is with your iPhone if you’re an Apple iPhone owner. You don’t even have to get an app because...
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How to Get Started with Smart Folders on my Mac?
MacOS X has a lot of really cool features that are possible because both the file system and the computers themselves are so darn fast nowadays. Back in the day you’d have to do a search for files by...
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How Can I Format a Table in Microsoft Word?
Microsoft Word has been around for so long that there’s not much you can’t do in this powerful program. Did you know it was first introduced on the Mac way back in January 18, 1985? Since Microsoft’s...
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How Can I Create an Email Filter Rule in Apple Mail?
Email filtering and organizational rules have been around longer than there’s been an Internet, actually, and it’s a rare email program that doesn’t offer some sort of support, whether it’s Yahoo Mail...
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How Can I Reset My Son’s Password on my Mac?
First, the good news: If your iMac is set up like most systems, you have an administrative account and your kids have regular user accounts. I certainly wouldn’t be giving my kids administrative...
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How to Install OpenSUSE Linux in VMWare Fusion?
If you’re coming from the world of MacOS X or Windows, you are in for quite a shock when you realize just how many different versions of Linux are available. Called “distros” (distributions) or...
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How Do I Replace a Default File Icon in MacOS X?
Back in the day, computer system developers never thought “what picture would we want associated with this particular file?” as they worked on those swanky command line interfaces. Heck, if the system...
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Restore Audio Alert on New Email in Apple Mail?
Audio problems with computers can be difficult to diagnose because there are a number of things that can go wrong, any of which will drop a Cone of Silence on your gear like a big red MUTE switch. But...
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Mac App Can’t Be Opened: Can’t Check for Malicious Software?
Ah yes, the dreaded “XXX can’t be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software” error! While it may seem like a huge annoyance, it’d actually beneficial because Apple is helping ensure...
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Figure out MP4 Movie Duration from MacOS X Finder?
Turns out that there are quite a lot of different containers for movie files in modern operating systems, from .WAV to .AVI, .FLV to .MOV. One of the most popular – muchly due to its portability across...
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Can I Automatically Log In When I Boot My iMac?
The short answer is yes, you can have your Mac system automatically log you in every time you boot up, but do you want to? If it’s sitting in the kitchen or on your office desk, it certainly seems like...
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How Can I Save Images in JPEG or PNG, Not WEBP?
Turns out that Google introduced the WebP image format quite a while ago: 2010 to be exact. It’s a pretty interesting format with some reasons to prefer it in terms of size, efficiency and flexibility....
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Change The Folder Display from the MacOS X Dock?
It seems really simple, that D0ck sitting on the bottom of the screen on your Mac system, but it’s pretty smart. In fact, between that and Spotlight (which I do hope you use extensive), you need never...
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How Can I AirDrop Photos from my iPhone to my Mac?
Apple’s AirDrop is a bit of a sleeper technology because it only works with Apple devices. iPhone to iPad? Yup. Mac to Mac? Yup. PC to Android? Uh, no. Not even close. But it’s actually not...
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Recover Deleted Mac Files with iBoysoft Data Recovery Pro
In the early days of computer systems, deleting a file was a one way journey. Recover it? That would have been like pulling a fragile glass sculpture out of the trash compactor after it’d been run! Not...
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Can I Run ChromeOS Within VMware Fusion on my Mac?
You ask a great question and the answer turns out to be no, but yes. No, because you can’t actually run ChromeOS on a non-Chromebook computer. That’s part of the licensing deal from Google’s ChromeOS...
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How Do I Get Audacity to Work with MacOS X 10.15 Catalina?
Audacity is a great open source audio recording and editing program beloved by lots of podcasters and musicians alike. It’s simple, designed to do one thing and do that well, and it’s open source so...
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How Can I Browse my Android Phone Files from a Mac?
Apple users are pretty familiar with having everything masked, hidden and managed so an iPhone owner asking about navigating the iOS 13 file system would be downright weird. But Android is a very...
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How Can I Back Up Photos & Videos from iPhone to Mac?
Apple would insist that you don’t ever need to back up anything because that’s exactly what iCloud does, but… iCloud has a really annoying habit of being a mirror of what you have on your phone, not a...
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How Do I Crop & Resize Photos on my Mac System?
One of the great software tools included with MacOS X on your Mac system is an app you’ve used many times, never realizing it has edit capabilities. I’m talking about Preview, a program that most...
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