Are You Missing Your Scroll Bars?

If you are using Mountain Lion, you may have noticed that your Scroll Bars have disappeared. In fact, the new default setting is to only show them when you are scrolling.

To change this, from the Apple menu, choose System Preferences, click on General and, next to Show scroll bars, chose Always.

Ahhhhhh…….

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Tall or Wide, How to Lock the Orientation

A helpful feature on the iPhone and iPad is that you can turn the device sideways to rotate the screen orientation. It’s a lot easier to read articles and emails in the sideways or landscape orientation. But it can also be annoying to have the screen randomly change orientation.

You can lock the orientation so that it no longer changes orientation.

On the iPhone:

Double-tap the Home button to reveal the line of open and active apps

Slide all the way to the LEFT until you see the iTunes icon and the play buttons. Also on this screen is the Rotation Lock icon

Tap it to lock the Portrait orientation so that the screen will no longer rotate to wide.

On the iPad:

Tap Settings

Tap General

Scroll down to the choice where you can use the side switch to Lock Rotation

Before you lock the switch, turn the iPad in the direction you want to use, either tall or wide, and then Lock the screen in position

NOTE: Even if you choose to lock in the wide/landscape orientation on the iPad, some apps may still open only in portrait.

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Seeing Only Certain Contacts on Your Phone

All of your contacts are stored in one place and are automatically synced with all of your devices. But many folks don’t want to SEE all of their contacts on their iPhone. They just want to see the people they call.

On your Mac:

1. Open Contacts and, from the File menu, choose New Group

2. Name it “phone” or something similar

3. Click on All Contacts in the left column

4. Find the people you want to see on your iPhone

5. Move them into the new “phone” group

You can select them one at a time and drag them on top of the group you just created or

Click on one name, hold down the Command key and select others.

Drag one person on top of the phone group and they will all go.

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To See Only The Contacts in the “Phone” Group You Created

1. Tap Contacts

2. In the top left, tap Groups

3. Right now, the groups that are checked are all showing in the Contacts list

4. Tap Hide All Contacts to remove all the check marks

5. Tap the “phone” group to choose ONLY those people

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Are You Missing Your Scroll Bars?

If you are using Mountain Lion, you may have noticed that your Scroll Bars have disappeared. In fact, the new default setting is to only show them when you are scrolling.

To change this, from the Apple menu, choose System Preferences, click on General and, next to Show scroll bars, chose Always.

Ahhhhhh…….

iPad Tip of the Week

Tall or Wide, How to Lock the Orientation

A helpful feature on the iPhone and iPad is that you can turn the device sideways to rotate the screen orientation. It’s a lot easier to read articles and emails in the sideways or landscape orientation. But it can also be annoying to have the screen randomly change orientation.

You can lock the orientation so that it no longer changes orientation.

On the iPhone:

1. Double-tap the Home button to reveal the line of open and active apps

2. Slide all the way to the LEFT until you see the iTunes icon and the play buttons. Also on this screen is the Rotation Lock icon

3. Tap it to lock the Portrait orientation so that the screen will no longer rotate to wide.

On the iPad:

1. Tap Settings

2. Tap General

3. Scroll down to the choice where you can use the side switch to Lock Rotation

4. Before you lock the switch, turn the iPad in the direction you want to use, either tall or wide, and then Lock the screen in position

NOTE: Even if you choose to lock in the wide/landscape orientation on the iPad, some apps may still open only in portrait.

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Seeing Only Certain Contacts on Your Phone

1. Open Contacts and, from the File menu, choose New Group
2. Name it “phone” or something similar
3. Click on All Contacts in the left column
4. Find the people you want to see on your iPhone
5. Move them into the new “phone” group

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A Faster Way to Scroll in iCal

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Printing those Passwords

While you can’t print the password list directly, you can take a screen shot and then print that.

1. Resize the window so that you can see as many passwords as possible

2. Hold down the Command and Shift keys and type the number 4

3. The cursor will become a crosshair

4. Starting in any corner, drag to surround everything you want to print

5. Release the mouse and you’ll hear a sound like a camera shutter

6. Click on your Desktop to find the file named “Screenshot”

7. You may have to take several shots to get your complete list

8. To print these Screenshots, just double click to open, then choose Print from the File menu

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A Faster Way to Scroll in iCal

Instead of tapping the forward and back buttons to go to a different month:

Tap and HOLD on that arrow to navigate faster

Remember to tap Today to quickly return to the current month

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Website Passwords

I’m a big proponent of keeping a written list of all of your passwords in a notebook so that you always have access to them.

One of the new features in Safari stores all of your website passwords, in case you forget them.

1. Under the Safari menu, choose Preferences

2. Click on the Passwords icon

3. To reveal the actual passwords, click Show Passwords

4. You will need to type the password for the computer to gain access

You can remove any saved passwords or clear the entire list.

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Cleaning Out Storage Space

Believe it or not, iMessage and texts take up quiet a bit of storage space on your mobile devices.

This is particularly true if you send and receive a lot of multimedia messages with photos, animations, etc.

To clear out old Messages:

1. Open Messages app

2. Tap Edit

3. Tap the red (-) button to delete an entire message thread

4. Repeat as necessary