Watch and learn how to use your Mac for some easy and fun holidays projects!

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How to Print Mailing Labels from Apple’s Address Book

Design Your Own Holiday Cards with iPhoto

How to Video Chat using iChat

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SAFARI: CUSTOMIZING THE TOOLBAR

Safari’s Toolbar contains the minimal tools needed to surf the internet.

To add, rearrange and remove icons from Safari’s Toolbar:
1. In Safari under the View menu choose Customize Toolbar.
2. Drag any desired icons from the window onto the Toolbar.
3. You can also rearrange the icons in the Toolbar and remove the ones that you don’t use by dragging them off the Toolbar while you have the Customize Toolbar window open.

Some Tools I like to add:
Smaller/Bigger Big A, Little A because some pages are too small to read and so, adding this tools lets me make content bigger as needed.

I also like to have a button to quickly get me back to my Home Page.

MAIL: CHANGING THE BACKGROUND COLOR OF THE PAGE

Yes, you can change the background color of your emails. With your cursor in the message area, click the Fonts button in the Toolbar. The fourth icon from the left that looks like a dog-eared page, is the tool for the Document Color. Click it and then choose a new color.

To change the way you view your color choices, click on the different icons in the Color window. I prefer the crayon box, the tool at the far right.

iPHONE RECEPTION ISSUES

Cell phones send and receive signals from cell towers. As you drive around town, the signal connects to various towers, handshaking from one to the other. If you drive through an area without a tower (along the 51 through the Phoenix Mountain Preserve, for example) your phone loses connection from the system, if only for a brief minute, and even when it reconnects to the next tower, the signal may not be a 100% handshake. You may notice more dropped calls or voicemails that show up on your phone hours after the call.

To resolve this issue, AT&T recommends turning off/on your iPhone after you drive through an area with no towers, and also turning your phone off and on at least every two weeks to re-establish full handshaking. Some people get into the habit of turning their phone off every day to ensure the best reception.

To turn your iPhone off, push and hold the sleep button on the top of the phone until you see a screen with the option “slide to power off.” If you continue to have problems with delayed voicemails and dropped calls, contact AT&T.