Lion’s New Scrolling Options

If you upgraded to Lion, you’ve probably noticed some changes in scrolling. The most noticeable difference is that the direction of scrolling is now reversed. Apple thinks it’s more natural that, if you scroll up, then the contents of the window should scroll up.

Maybe you like this new reversed direction.

Or maybe you’d like it to work like it did before Lion. If so:

1. Under the Apple menu choose System Preferences.

2. Click on the Trackpad icon

3. In the very top of this window, remove the checkmark next to “When using gestures to scroll or navigate, move content in the direction of finger movement”.

You might also notice that the Scroll Bars aren’t always there. Again, Apple assumes more people will be using a trackpad and scrolling with the gestures on the trackpad.

To change how often you see the Scroll Bars:

1. Under the Apple menu choose System Preferences.

2. Click on the General icon

3. Click on your desired preferences

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Change Your Default Email Address

If you have more than one email address, you can choose which one is automatically used when you send emails from your iPhone or iPad.

1. Click on Settings

2. Click on Mail, Contacts, Calendars

3. Scroll all the way down to Default Account

4. Click on the address that’s showing so that you can choose which email address you want to use

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Are You Missing Emails? Understanding Conversations

When we Reply to an email, or receive an email that is a Reply to something we’ve sent, this is considered a thread (in Leopard), or conversation (in Lion).

Some people like to group these emails together so that they can easily follow the order of the conversation. But when they are grouped, you can easily not notice when a new message comes in that is related to the conversation.

To turn off this feature so that you see each email individually in your Inbox:

In Mail, under the View menu, remove the check mark next to View As Thread (if you are using a version of Leopard) or View as Conversation (if you are using Lion.

You can make further choices about how you view these related emails in Mail’s Preferences, in the Viewing section.

MAC BONUS: FREE VIDEO TIP

I’ve started working on a new series of videos that share some of my favorite new features in Lion.

Maybe seeing what’s new will help you decide to upgrade.

Check out this free video that shows you how to play your iTunes music even when your computer is in sleep mode.

It’s called the Jukebox Screensaver. Just click on the icon to go to the video. Once there, you can click the tool in the bottom right to enlarge it to full screen.

Jukebox Screensaver

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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.

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Safari’s New reading List

If you’re like me, you find a lot of great articles and websites when you are browsing the internet. Maybe you save them as Bookmarks, but rarely go back to read them.

The newest version of Safari offers a great feature for people like us.

Click on the pair of eyeglasses under the Back Arrow icon at the left of Safari’s toolbar. This is the new Reading List, a place to collect web pages that you’d like to come back and read at a later time.

Clicking the eyeglasses again will hide the list.

To add something to your Reading List:

1. Go to a page you’d like to save

2. Click on the eyeglasses and the window will appear.

3. Click Add Page.

Click an entry to go to it.
Click the X next to an entry to remove it from the list.
Click Clear All to clear the entire list.

 

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Clients Share Their Favorite Apps

With the thousands of Apps available, it’s hard to know which ones to try. So each month I’ll share some of my clients’ favorite apps.

This month’s recommended apps, available for iPhone and iPad, are all about fun and creativity:

Brushes: Express your artistic side with painting and drawing tool that work just like the real thing.

Wreck This App: For kids of all ages, get messy, break the rules, color outside the lines.

iBrainstorm: A fun tool to draw, write and share your greatest ideas.

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Get a Quick Definition

Sometimes you’ll be reading something and would like the definition of a word. Instead of stopping, opening up Dictionary and typing in the word in question, try this.

Hold down the Command and Control keys and type the letter D and move your mouse on top of the word

The definition will appear as a pop-up menu.

NOTE: This works with most Apple branded applications (Mail, Safari, Pages) but not Word, Firefox and other non-Apple products.

To access the Dictionary in these other Applications, hold down the Control key and click (or Right click) in the middle of the word and choose Look Up or Dictionary, if it’s an option.

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Customize Your Signature

 

 

By default, evey email you send says “Sent from my iPhone or iPad.” You can remove this and even add your own signature.

1. From the Home screen, click on Settings
2. Scroll down to Mail, Contacts, Calendars
3. Scroll all the way down to Signature
4. Delete the existing text and type what you’d like it to say
5. There is no need to Save it, just click back on Mail and you’ll see that, next to Signature, it now shows the first words of what you typed.

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The Fastest Way to Open Any Application

 

Your most frequently used Applications are probably in your Dock and so clicking on the icon will open it.

But sometimes you might need to open an Application that isn’t on your Dock. Instead of finding the Applications folder and scrolling through to find what you want:

1. Click your cursor in the top right corner next to the icon of the magnifying glass. This is Spotlight, the built-in searching tool. A lot of people use Spotlight to find Documents and Files.

2. Type in the name of the Application you’re looking for and it won’t just find it, it will automaticlaly open it!

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Mobile Boarding Passes

 

 

Have you seen people checking in by showing the ticketing agent their iPhone or iPad? Several airlines offer the option of a mobile boarding pass.

The boarding pass is emailed to you when you check in online. Usually you have the option of printing the boarding pass, or emailing it to you. You open the email, then click on the link that says, “Get mobile boarding pass.” Then the bar-code comes up on the phone.

Not all airlines offer this service and not all airports use the system.

Here’s a link to check which airports currently support the mobile boarding pass.