Macworld’s guide to prioritizing your data and ensuring you have a solid backup plan You know you should back up your data. And many of you also know that Apple’s made it easy to do with the Time Machine technology that’s built into Leopard and Snow Leopard. Yet the majority of people do not regularly […]
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Is there a way to sync multiple Google calendars to your iPhone? [Yes] The means is Google Sync. Google provides a document aptly entitled Set Up Your Apple Device for Google Sync that provides the necessary steps. But I’ll outline them here. First, if this hasn’t been done already, create Gmail accounts for each family […]
The holidays are fast approaching, and for many people that means one thing: endless photo opportunities. After the last latke is consumed, you’re going to want to share your images with everyone in the family, but you also probably want to make sure you keep those embarrassing matching-Santa-hat group photos and newborn baby portraits in […]
Nine tips for protecting your money and yourself That inbox full of Black Friday alerts and e-tailer sales pitches are sure signs that the peak holiday shopping season has arrived. But while online shopping from a computer or a smartphone can save you time and money, it can also give online scammers their biggest opportunity […]
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Opinion: The iPad and the Centenarian
Republished Article by Christopher Breen, Macworld.com Over the Thanksgiving holidays I had the opportunity to visit with my favorite 100-year-old—Lew, my mother’s husband. His birthday rolls around again in a couple of weeks and, as you might imagine, with a century of stuff tucked away here and there, he’s a hard man to shop for. […]
Reading PDFs in your browser, instead of downloading them and reading them in an app like Preview, is a nice convenience. But Safari is the only major Mac browser that has a read-PDFs-in-the-browser option turned on by default … Chrome has the same feature, here’s how easy it is to enable it:
File this hint from under “it seems so obvious, but did you know?”: As you probably do know, Spotlight can serve as a calculator. If, for example, you enter 100+4 in the Spotlight query box and hit Return, you’ll get the usual list of Spotlight results. At the top: A result from Calculator, 100+4 = […]
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Unclutter Your Hard Drive
Getting rid of files you don’t need can do more than just reclaim wasted disk space As you use your Mac, it tends to accumulate lots of files—not just the ones you create and interact with, but preference and application support files, software downloads, and more. Even when these files become obsolete, they stick around, […]
The days of Apple tablet rumor-mongering may soon be coming to an end—Apple confirmed that it will hold an invitation-only event in San Francisco on Wednesday, January 27 to introduce its “latest creation.”
Apple is planning a special, invitation-only event for September 9, 2009. The event will take place at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco, Calif., located in the same complex as the Moscone Center. It will occur at 10:00 AM Pacific Time on Wednesday, Sep. 9, 2009. Apple offered no details […]