Backing Up With Time Machine

Time Machine is Apple’s free, built-in backup software. It works with all versions of the Mac OS from Leopard on up.

To use Time Machine you just need to purchase an external hard drive to connect to your computer. Depending on the model of your Mac, you can use a Firewire, USB or Thunderbolt cable connection.

External drives come in a variety of sizes, measured in GB (gigabytes) all the way up to TB (terabytes). It’s best to purchase at least a 500GB drive, more if you have a lot of photos and music. You do not need a Time Capsule unless you don’t already have a wireless network. Time Capsule is both an external hard drive AND a wireless router.

To Set Up Time Machine:

1. Connect the external drive to your computer
2. Turn it on if it has a power switch
3. A message will appear asking if you want to use your external drive as a Time Machine backup
4. Say yes
5. You may get a message that you need to completely erase the new drive to use it. Say OK
6. Confirm that you want to use the disk for backup
7. And you’re done

* It will begin backing up in a few minutes. You’ll see the Time Machine icon in the top right of your menu bar rotating as it backs up.

* The first time Time Machine backs up, it may take several hours. So you may want to stop the backup and then start at a more convenient time. You can make these choices from the Time Machine icon in the top right of the menu bar. It’s the counterclockwise arrow.

* After the initial backup, it will backup every hour, but only the files that have been changed.

Restoring Only Some Files Using Time Machine
In addition to being able to replicate your entire computer’s hard drive, Time Machine can also retrieve lost files on a daily basis.

Have you ever had a document saved someplace that you accidentally deleted and then you emptied the trash, only to realize you deleted the wrong file?

Time Machine can get that file back!

1. From the Finder, under the File menu, choose Find
2. Type in the name of the file you are wanting to restore
3. You can search the entire computer (this Mac) or limit the search by specifying certain criteria
4. Click the Time Machine icon at the top and choose Enter Time Machine
5. Your computer screen will switch to the Time Machine application
6. Use the arrows and the timeline along the right edge of your screen to browse through the Time Machine backups. Your search is performed in every window.
7. When you find the item you want to restore, select it and then click Restore.
8. The item will be returned to its original location before you deleted it.

BETTER SAVE THAN SORRY!

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Important Security Ipdate for iOS7

Apple announced a potential security issue and has released an update for iOS7 users. On your iPad or iPhone:

1. Tap Settings
2. Tap General
3. Tap Software Update
4. Follow the prompts to install the update

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Adding Your Signature to Online Contracts

These days we handle so many transactions online to make things faster and easier. But what about signing things?

Some folks think they have to print out the PDF, sign it, then either snail mail it or scan it it and email it back to the sender.

With Mountain Lion and Mavericks, there’s a much easier way!

1. Open the PDF you need to sign.

2. From the Tools menu, choose Annotate, choose Signature

3. A window open, guiding you to write your name in black ink on white paper and hold it up to the Mac’s built-in camera

4. Line up the signature with the blue line on the screen and click Accept. (That’s the hardest part–keeping the paper straight while you click the button.)

5. It saves your signature

6. Now, find the line in the PDF where your signature goes and click on the pull-down menu with a scripted S in Preview’s toolbar

7. Click on your signature and it will appear in the PDF document

8. Drag it into place, onto the signature line

9. Save the document

10. Email it to the sender!

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Even Faster Charging

Your iPhone and iPad will charge twice as fast if you put it in Airplane mode.

1. Tap Settings or swipe to reveal the Control Center

2. Turn Airplane mode on

3. Remember to turn it back off when you’re device is charged

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How To Delete Old Email Addresses That Keep Showing Up, Even After You Remove Them From Contacts

Apple Mail remembers everyone you’ve ever sent an email to. Even if you’ve updated a person’s information in Contacts, their old address may still pop up.

If an incorrect address keeps appearing as a choice:

1. In Mail from the Window menu, choose Previous Recipients

2. You’ll notice that many names in the list have an icon of an index card next to them. These people are in your Contacts

3. You can sort the list by clicking on the header for Name or Address, Last Used

4. You can go through the list and select people who don’t have the card next to their name and click to Add to Contacts

5. You can find the bad address and remove it individually

6. To clear the list completely, from the Edit menu, choose Select All, then click to Remove From List

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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
6. You can select them one at a time and drag them on top of the group you just created or
7. Click on one name, hold down the Command key and select others
8. Drag one person on top of the phone group and they will all go

On your iPhone:

1. Tap Phone
2. Tap Contacts
3. Tap Groups in the top left
4. Tap each listed group to remove the check mark so that only the new Phone list is checked
5. Tap Done

While only these names will show, you can still use Spotlight to search for people not in this group

Another option is to put your most used people and numbers in the Favorites section.

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A Fun Way to Email Photos with iPhoto

You probably know how easy it is to email pictures from iPhoto. But with iPhoto ’11 you have a choice about how those photos appear.

You can choose to have them just be attachments right in the email. Or, try this:

1. In iPhoto, under the iPhoto menu, choose Preferences

2. Click on the General icon

3. Next to “Email Photos Using, choose iPhoto

4. Close Preferences

Next:

1. Choose some pictures you’d like to send (Click one photo, hold down the Command key and select others)

2. Click the right facing Share arrow in the bottom toolbar

3. Choose Email

4. In the right column you now have several themes to choose from

5. Each theme will suggest how many photos work best

6. Add text in the designated spaces

7. Be sure to check the box next to Attach Photos to Message so that the recipient can download the photos.

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The Fastest Way To Charge Your Device

Your iPhone and iPad will charge much faster if you plug them directly into a wall outlet instead of your computer.

Be sure to drain the battery at least once a month to maximize performance.

 

 

Signatures in Mail

A signature can automatically appear at the bottom of your email. It can be your name, your contact information, even a favorite quote. You can create several different signatures and choose which one you want for a particular email.

To create a signature:

1. First, create a new email message so you have a place to type

2. Type everything you want to appear, including choosing the font, size, color

3. Highlight it all

4. From the Edit menu, choose Copy

5. Then, under the Mail menu, choose Preferences

6. Click on the Signatures icon

7. Click the “+” sign at the bottom of the middle column to create a new signature

8. Title it in the middle column where it is highlighted in blue

9. In the right column, delete the text that appears there

10. From the Edit menu, choose Paste

Your typed text will appear.

To actually USE the signature, you have to now assign it to an email account.

1. Drag that named signature from the middle column to on top of the email address in the left column that you want to use it with.

2. Click on that email address and, at the bottom, under Choose Signature, decide whether you always want that signature to appear or, if you choose None, then you can select the signature when you want to use it in a particular email.

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Signatures in Mail

By default, every email you send says “Sent from my iPhone or iPad.” You can remove this and even add your own signature. You can even have a different signature for each of your email accounts.

1. From the Home screen, tap on Settings

2. Scroll down and tap Mail, Contacts, Calendars

3. Scroll all the way down and tap Signature

4. Choose All Accounts if you want to use the same signature for all of your email accounts

5. Click Per Account if you want to create unique signatures for each email account

6. Delete the existing text and type what you’d like it to say

7. There is no need to Save it, just tap back to Mail and you’ll see that, next to Signature, it now shows either the text you typed or the number of how many email accounts you have

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Too Many Emails? Unsubscribe!

I have clients with more than 3000 emails in their inbox. Yes, this can slow things down. Yes, it makes it hard to find what’s important. But more than that, it often causes some anxiety.

People think the goal is to have a Zero inbox.

Really the goal is to only receive mail from people you want to hear from.

You can start by unsubscribing from all of the newsletters you receive and do not read. You can always get the information on their website. You can re-sign up if you find that you miss it.

Take 10 or 15 minutes a day and go through all of the subscription emails you receive. When’s the last time you actually READ them? Do you even resonate with the content? Unsubscribe from anything that you haven’t opened in the last six months. goes for stores, catalogs, magazines, newsletters.

In fact, unsubscribing from unwanted emails is much easier than canceling catalogs that get delivered to your house.

1. Open an email you no longer want to receive.

2. Scroll down to the bottom and look for a link to UNSUBSCRIBE or CHANGE SETTINGS. Follow the prompts to remove your name from their mailing list.

3. Then delete the email from your inbox.

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Emoticons: Part 2

If you tried typing those fun characters and didn’t see the globe on the keyboard, my apologies. I forgot to tell you how to set it up:

1. Tap Settings
2. Tap General
3. Tap Keyboard
4. Tap Keyboards
5. Add a Keyboard
6. Choose Emoji
7. Close Settings

Now, anytime you want to type a fun character:

1. On the keyboard, tap the world globe icon to the left of the space bar
2. Choose the characters you want
3. Tap the globe again to return to your regular keyboard

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Scroll Bar Secrets

The scroll bar, on the right side of every window, allows you to move up and down the window to see the contents.

Dragging the scroll bar moves you fast, sometimes too fast. But Dragging the scroll button is the quickest way to go all the way to the top or bottom of a window.

Clicking the up and down arrows at the bottom of the scroll bar will move you a line at a time. This is great if you are reading a document line by line or looking at individual photos.

In the System Preferences, under Appearance, you can set the Scroll Bar to either jump to the next page or to the spot that’s clicked.

This is handy when you are scanning a document or wanting to quickly navigate through a section of your photos.

This is also where you can set to Always Show Scroll Bars, instead of having to hover the cursor to reveal them.

BONUS: In Safari, pressing the Space Bar scrolls the window down a screen at a time. Shift plus Space Bar scrolls the window up a screen at a time.

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Quick Scroll to the Top

When you reach the bottom of an article, or an email or the news feed in FaceBook, instead of scrolling all the way back to the top:

Just double tap in the very top black horizontal menu space where the time and battery are displayed and you’ll zip right up to the top of the screen.

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Managing Passwords

With all of the user names and passwords that you have to remember, how do you keep track of them all?

I highly recommend that you keep a Master List, on paper, in a notebook and make sure it is updated regularly.

But this isn’t convenient for travelers or users of more than one device.

There are online services that will store your passwords for you BUT, who are they? How long will they be in business? How secure is their site?

Your Mac has always stored saved passwords in Keychain Access, an app found in the Utilities folder in the Applications folder. To reveal a saved password, you just need to know the master password for the computer.

Mavericks and iOS7 now give you the option of storing all of your Passwords on Apple’s iCloud Keychain.

To activate the iCloud Keychain,

1. Open System Preferences
2. Click on iCloud
3. Check the box next to Keychains
4. You will be required to create a four-digit password
5. BE SURE TO WRITE THIS PASSWORD DOWN ON YOUR MASTER LIST!
6. Activate the Keychain on your iPad and iPhone also

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iCloud Keychain

The new iOS7 allows you to save your passwords on Apple’s iCloud. To activate this feature,

1. Tap Settings
2. Tap iCloud
3. Tap Keychain
4. Follow the prompts to set up your password

 

 

Make Things Bigger On The Desktop

Did you know that you can make the text AND icons bigger on the Desktop?

1. From the Finder click the View menu

2. Choose Show View Options

3. You can drag the top slider to make the icons bigger or smaller

4. Change the text size

5. You can even reposition the label text from the bottom to the side

6. Click a check mark next to Show Icon Preview and you’ll see a thumbnail of all of your jpgs

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Contacts and Calendars Not Updated?

Your Contacts and Calendars will sync whenever you are connected to wifi.
If you know there have been changes and you don’t see them on your iPhone or iPad, you can manually Refresh to get the newest changes.

In Calendars
Tap Calendars at the top left
Pull the screen down (iOS7)
or tap the clockwise arrow at the bottom of the screen (pre iOS7)

In Contacts
Tap Groups in the top left
Pull down the screen

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Safari’s New Home Screen

Even if you haven’t upgraded to Mavericks, you may have notices some changes in Safari version 6.1.

If your home page now shows icons of Top Sites, you can change it to your familiar home page.

1. Under the Safari menu, choose Preferences

2. Click on the General icon

3. Next to each line, choose your preference for what opens when

4. This is also where you can set things to download to the Desktop so you can find them and file them

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Full Screen

It’s great to use the space of your entire computer screen, especially if you’re watching a movie or surfing the web.

Many of my clients activate the full screen mode without realizing it, and then wonder how to get back to seeing their menus, the Dock, etc.

To get into full screen mode, click the diagonal arrows in the top right corner of the window.

To return to your regular screen, hover your mouse at the very top of the screen where the menu bar should be, and click on the diagonal arrows again.

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Navigating Windows in Safari

The iOS7 version of Safari is slightly different on the iPad and iPhone. On your iPhone, recently visited pages are stored and available by tapping the icon with two squares on the bottom right. Press the X in the left corner of each page to close it.

On the iPad, web pages open as tabs across the top. Tap the small gray X next to any page title to remove it.

Google searching is now available in any Safari window by tapping in the address bar at the top, once to activate it, then tap the small X at the right end of the address to clear it so you can type in your new search criteria.

When no page is selected and all previous pages are closed, you will see square icons of websites that are in your Mac’s Bookmark Favorites bar.

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Sending Emails to a Group of People

If you send the same email to the same group of people all the time (ie. a book club, a board of directors, your family), instead of choosing each person each time, you can create a Group.

(The steps may vary if you are running Lion or Snow Leopard)

To Create a Group:

1. From the File menu in Contacts, choose New Group

2. A new Untitled Group appears

3. Without moving or clicking your mouse, type the name of the group then press the Return key to lock it in

4. Click on All Contacts at the top of the list to see everyone in your Address Book

5. Scroll through the list to select the people who belong in the group

You can drag each person, one at a time, to the left column then up and on top of the Group name

OR

Click on one name, hold down the Command key and continue selecting others, then drag one of the selected names on top of the group and they will all go

Be sure to drag the name left first and then up, or you may accidentally highlight the entire list of people.

To Send an Email to the Group:

In the BCC field (so that everyone remains anonymous), type the name of the group
Press the TAB key and it will fill in

If you want to see the names of the people in the group, in Mail, under Preferences, click on the Viewing icon and choose it

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iOS7 Calendar Solution

With all of the changes and new features in iOS7, there is one glaring change that has some Calendar users up in arms.

If you view your calendar in the Month mode, iOS7 has removed the helpful list at the bottom that shows all of a day’s appointments.

But you can still access the list, even though it’s not quite the same.

From the Month mode, tap the magnifying glass icon at the top right. A list of ALL events appears, separated by the day (though it’s a bit tough to see the demarcation.)

This is also how you can search for an event.

 

 

Getting Your Mac Ready for Mavericks, the new OS

Mavericks, Apple’s new OS for Mac is packed with a new look and lots of new features.

As with any upgrade, you may want to wait until they iron out some of the bugs before you jump in. And before you rush to upgrade, you’ll want to make sure your Mac is ready for the new OS.

1. Confirm that your Mac will work with Mavericks

For a complete list of compatible Macs and software requirements, check out Apple’s www.apple.com/osx/how-to-upgrade/

2. Back up!

If you are not already using Time Machine to automatically back up your computer, now is the time to invest. Get an external hard drive, plug it in and follow the on-screen prompts.

3. Clean Up!

Mavericks requires 8GB of space on the hard drive for installation. For most computers this won’t be an issue, but MacBook Air users may be pressed for space.

Delete old files
Clear out the Downloads folder
Delete any apps that you never use
Archive your older photos to DVDs or another external drive

4. Run Disk Utility!

In the same way that you clean out your physical file drawers, throwing out old papers and then smooshing the file folders to create more space, you can have the Mac do a similar kind of cleaning up.

1. From the Desktop, click on the GO menu and choose Utilities, and then open Disk Utility
or, using Spotlight, type in Disk Utility and open in

2. In the left column, click on the icon of Macintosh HD, your internal hard drive

3. Click Repair Disk Permissions

It may take a while, even a long while, to complete the task.

If it reports errors that were fixed, Click Repair Disk Permissions again to run it again.

5. Confirm that your apps are Mavericks compatible!

While most software will still work with the new OS, you need to confirm this! Check out www.roaringapps.com for a complete compatibility list.

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In Case of Emergency

If you are in an accident and can’t communicate, officials will check your phone for an emergency contact person. To make it easy for them to find the correct person, add an entry in your Contacts for ICE (in case of emergency):
1. In Contacts, click the + to add a new person
2. Enter the person’s first and last name
3. In the Company field, type ICE
4. Click the box next to company to have Contacts list that person under the company name
5. Enter the appropriate contact information
6. Click Done
7. You’ll now have an entry in Contacts under the letter ‘I” for ICE

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Is Your Mac Running Slow?

Here are three quick remedies to increase the performance of your Mac:

1. Restart your computer at least once a week

2. Quit any Apps that are open that you don’t use regularly

3. Repair Permissions

In the same way that you clean out your physical file drawers, throwing out old papers and then smooshing the file folders to create more space, you can have the Mac do a similar kind of cleaning up.

1. From the Desktop, click on the GO menu and choose Utilities, and then open Disk Utility
or, using Spotlight, type in Disk Utility and open in

2. In the left column, click on the icon of Macintosh HD, your internal hard drive

3. Click Repair Disk Permissions

It may take a while, even a long while, to complete the task.

If it reports errors that were fixed, Click Repair Disk Permissions again to run it again.

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iCal Tip

If you are looking at your calendar in the Month mode and want to quickly see the Day view, turn your device sideways. (This may not work with iOS7 on the iPad)

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Saving Photos You Receive In An Email

There’s no need to keep an email just so that you have access to the pictures. Instead, save them right in to iPhoto.

1. Open the email.

2. In Lion and Mountain Lion Mail, first click Show Details.

3. Then click and hold down the SAVE button and choose Add to iPhoto.

4. iPhoto will open and the pictures will be added to your iPhoto Library.

5. Now you can delete the email.

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Adding a Person’s Photo to Their Contact Info

It’s fun to have a person’s face appear when you are receiving an incoming call from them on your iPhone or a FaceTime call.

1. Find the person in your Contacts.

2. Tap Edit.

3. In the top left next to their name tap the circle that says Add Photo.

4. You can either take a picture of them or choose a photo from your Camera Roll.

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Facebook Security Settings

Facebook is THE social media program for connecting with friends and colleagues and meeting new people. People share photos, inspirational quotes, details about meetings. And many businesses are using Facebook to offer discounts and daily specials.

You can participate as much or as little as you want to.

But it’s important to set your privacy settings and notifications so that YOU have control over who sees what and what you you see.

Here’s a free guide to help you set up your Facebook account to ensure privacy and connection with only the people you want to connect with.

If you’d like to Friend me on Facebook, I’m RuthRDavis.

iPhone and iPad Tip of the Week

Fast Access to Drafts

Often, you may start writing an email on your mobile device, but decide to finish it later. If you tap Cancel, you get the option to Save the email as a Draft.

To quickly access the draft to finish it, tap and hold the Compose icon (pen and paper) and it will show a list of all drafts that you created on your iPhone or iPad.

Sorry, drafts written on your Mac do NOT appear in this list.

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Fast Printing

Instead of opening up a document in order to print it, you can drag the icon of the document onto the printer icon in the Dock.

To get your printer into the Dock, open any document and print it. The printer icon will appear briefly in the Dock as it is printing. Click and hold the cursor on the icon and choose Options. Choose Keep in Dock.

Now, anytime you need to print something, just drag it onto the Printer icon.

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Don’t Type Periods

Instead of actually typing a period at the end of a sentence, double-tap the space bar and it will put in a period and a space so you can just start typing the next sentence.

If this feature doesn’t work:

1. Tap Settings

2. Tap General

3. Tap Keyboard

4. Turn the “.” Shortcut ON

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Essential Guide to iOS 7

I must admit, my first reaction to the new iOS7 was frustration and crankiness. I didn’t like the new colors and motion. I resented the change in swipe directions and the repositioning of buttons.

But then I had a change of heart.

Even though I still didn’t like the new look, my brain was learning new things, creating new neural pathways, which staves off dementia. So thanks, Apple, for giving my brain a workout!

If you have upgraded to OS7, you’ll want to check out Mac2School’s Essential Guide to iOS7.

Be sure to save it or print it for easy access–it’s packed with tips and shortcuts to help you get used to the new look and feel of the OS.

Get the Free iOS7 Guide here.

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Make Things Bigger on the Desktop

Did you know that you can make the text AND icons bigger on the Desktop?

1. From the Finder click the View menu

2. Choose Show View Options

3. You can drag the top slider to make the icons bigger or smaller

4. Change the text size

5. You can even reposition the label text from the bottom to the side

6. Click a check mark next to Show Icon Preview and you’ll see a thumbnail of all of your jpgs

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Four More Ways to Conserve Your Battery

Under Settings:

1. Turn off Bluetooth if you are not connected to a wireless keyboard or your car’s system

2. In General, under Spotlight search, limit where it should look when you use the search feature

3. Under the iPod setting, turn off the EQ

4. Under Location Services, wisely choose which Apps REALLY need to know where you are

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Scroll Bar Secrets

The scroll bar, on the right side of every window, allows you to move up and down the window to see the contents.

Dragging the scroll bar moves you fast, sometimes too fast. But Dragging the scroll button is the quickest way to go all the way to the top or bottom of a window.

Clicking the up and down arrows at the bottom of the scroll bar will move you a line at a time. This is great if you are reading a document line by line or looking at individual photos.

In the System Preferences, under Appearance, you can set the Scroll Bar to either jump to the next page or to the spot that’s clicked.

This is handy when you are scanning a document or wanting to quickly navigate through a section of your photos.

BONUS: In Safari, pressing the Space Bar scrolls the window down a screen at a time. Shift plus Space Bar scrolls the window up a screen at a time.

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Quick Scroll to the Top

When you reach the bottom of an article, or an email or the news feed in FaceBook, instead of scrolling all the way back to the top:

Just double tap in the very top black horizontal menu space where the time and battery are displayed and you’ll zip right up to the top of the screen.

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Changing the Direction of Deleting in Mail

I don’t know about you, but when I am deleting a series of emails in Mail, I like to delete from the bottom up. But it seems that the default deletes from the top down. What I mean is, if I delete something in the list, I want it to highlight the next email ABOVE the one I deleted.

You can choose which direction the deleting goes.

1. Delete an email

2. Notice if it now highlights the email above or below the one you deleted

3. Press the up or down arrow on the keyboard to choose the direction you want

4. Press delete to remove the next email and it will now be highlighting the next email in the direction you chose

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Conserve the Battery

One way to get more battery time on your iPhone and iPad is to change the setting for auto-adjusting the brightness.

1. Tap Settings

2. Tap Brightness and Wallpaper

3. Turn the Auto-Brightness setting OFF

4. Now it will stay the same brightness no matter what the ambient light conditions.

5. If you need the screen to be brighter or dimmer, come back to settings and make the change manually

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Keyboard Shortcuts

The Apple Wireless Keyboard is sleek, compact and feels great on your fingers. But it’s missing the numeric keypad and a few other keys that some people are lost without.

This week’s tip is a short (less than 2 minutes!) video lesson especially for all of you recently converted PC users who miss those special navigational keys.

Check out the video. Try the tip. Let me know what you think!

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Quick Contacts Editing

If you need to quickly delete a person’s phone number or address from their contact information, you don’t need to tap Edit first.

Find their entry in your Contacts

Simply swipe your finger next to the information you want to delete and tap Delete.

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Typing Emoticons

Emoticons are those cartoon characters that people include in emails and on FaceBook. They are those winking smiley faces and colorful hearts and random, fun images of things in our lives.

Built into the Mac since Lion, you can easily add these characters.

1. Under the Apple menu, choose System Preferences

2. Click on the Keyboard icon

3. Check the box to Show Keyboard and Character Viewers in menu

4. A new icon appears in the top right menu bar, next to the clock

5. Click it to show the Character Viewer

6. The left column shows the different collections of symbols, shapes and arrows that have always been available on the Mac

7. Click Emoji to access the cartoon emoticons

8. Click on People, Nature, Objects, Places and Symbols to see the choices

9. To use one simply drag it to where you are typing

 

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Typing Emoticons

Emoticons are those cartoon characters that people include in emails and on FaceBook posts. They are winking smiley faces and colorful hearts and random, fun images of things in our lives.

To set up access to the Emoji keyboard:

1. Tap Settings

2. Tap General

3. Scroll down and tap Keyboard

4. Tap Add New Keyboard

5. Find and tap Emoji

6. Get out of Settings

To use the Emoji keyboard when typing:

1. In email or on FaceBook, when you have the regular keyboard showing, tap the Globe icon and it will switch to the Emoji keyobard

2. Tap the various symbols to choose between categories

3. Tap the Globe again to return to the regular keyboard

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Organizing Bookmarks

In Safari, Bookmarks are favorite website that you go to often. If a long unrelated list of all of your saved bookmarks is overwhelming you, here are some tips to organize them:

1. From the Bookmarks menu, choose Show All Bookmarks

2. In the left column click on either the Bookmarks Bar or Bookmarks menu, whichever one you want to work with

3. To Add a Folder, click the “+” sign at the bottom of the list of websites

4. Title it

5. Now drag related bookmarks on top of the folder to put it in it

To rename a bookmark, click once on it to select it. Click on the words to turn them the highlighted color Type and press Return when done

To delete a bookmark, click once on the icon of it, press the Delete key

To rearrange the bookmarks, just drag them up or down the list to where you want them

To move a Bookmark from the Bar to the Menu, click on the place where it is and drag it on top of where you want it

iPad and iPhone Tip of the Week

Foldify

FOLDIFY
I usually only promote free apps but this one for iPad looks SO FUN!Draw, create, print and fold amazing 3D figures with Foldify. You don’t need drawing skills – Foldify has tons of free content to create amazing, high quality figures!

Additionally – what if we told you that your fun doesn’t need to be limited just to device? You can print figures from the app, then it’s just as easy as cutting it out and folding. Foldify offers 10 different templates for different types of figures. Even without drawing skills you can still create quality figures with a large selection of ready to use elements.

Foldify allows you:

print your figures directly from the application using AirPrint or send the PDF via email

view real-time 3D figure’s preview – any action you take is previewed in 3D without any delays or extra steps

zoom, rotate and draw on templates

use stamps like eyes, mouths, eyeglasses and many others

upload your creations to Foldify server and browse other users’ figures which you can print and rate

share your figures on Facebook, Twitter and e-mail

Get Foldify from the App Store on your iPad for $1.99 (50% off for a limited time)

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See What Fonts Look Like

You can change the fonts of text in Mail as well as most other Apple programs by highlighting the text and then clicking on the desired font from the Font pulldown menu. But you don’t know what the font will actually look like until you do it.

Another way to experiment with fonts in email is to choose Show Fonts from the Format menu.

The Fonts window shows a list of grouped fonts (Collections), the family of typefaces, the possible styles of each typeface and a size to choose.

To see what the font actually looks like, you can reveal the Font Preview Pane.

1. Click on the barely noticeable circle that is below the word “Fonts” and above the “T” tool. Your mouse becomes a tool with arrows.

2. Drag the tool down to reveal the Font Preview Pane.

You can make the entire window bigger by dragging on any corner of the window.

 

 

iPad and iPhone Tip of the Week

Managing Photos

Thanks to Brian Lawler of the San Luis Obispo Mac Users Group for sharing this tip:

Deleting photos on the iPad and iPhone can be tedious–you have to either delete them all or you have to tap Edit, then tap each photo you want to remove.

Another option is to use your Mac to help speed up the process.

1. Open Preview on your Mac

2. Plug in your iPhone or iPad

3. From the File menu, choose Import from Phone

4. When you see the thumbnails you can select which photos you want to delete from the device

5. To select a series of photos in a row, click on the first one, hold down the Shift key, click on the last one

6. To randomly select photos, click on one, hold down the Command key while clicking on others

7. Then, to delete, click on the little red button in the lower left corner and all of the selected images will be deleted on your device

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A Fast and Fun Way to Email Photos

You probably know how easy it is to email pictures from iPhoto. But with iPhoto ’11 you have a choice about how those photos appear.

You can choose to have them just be attachments right in the email. Or, try this:

1. In iPhoto, under the iPhoto menu, choose Preferences

2. Click on the General icon

3. Next to “Email Photos Using, choose iPhoto

4. Close Preferences

Next:

1. Choose some pictures you’d like to send (Click one photo, hold down the Command key and select others)

2. Click the right facing Share arrow in the bottom toolbar

3. Choose Email

4. In the right column you now have several themes to choose from

5. Each theme will suggest how many photos work best

6. Add text in the designated spaces7

7. Be sure to check the box next to Attach Photos to Message so that the recipient can download the photos.

iPad and iPhone Tip of the Week

Christmas Songs, Music and Carols – with Lyrics

Enjoy 80 of the best Christmas classics, includes YouTube videos and full color music visualizer.

Hanukkah Dreidel
Spin the dreidel, win the pot.Play with friends and family.

Gingerbread House Maker
No fuss, no bake just good old fashioned fun.

Snowman Maker PRO
Build a snowman, dress him up, choose background and share with friends.

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Mac Tip of the Week

Question: Sometimes when I receive an e-mail and open it, I get a box with a blue ? in it. How do I handle this?

If a person has forwarded the message and the settings in their email do not include the graphics in the attachment, then you have no access to them.

If it is an email directly from someone, you can check your own settings. In Mail, under the Mail menu, choose Preferences. Click on the Viewing icon. Be sure there is a check mark next to “Display remote images in HTML messages”

Question: I would like to change the size of the font in my iCloud email. How do I go about doing that?

You can change the font size and the font for your emails in Mail under the Preferences menu. Click on Fonts and Colors. Next to Message font, click on Select, choose your desired font.

iPad and iPhone Tip of the Week

Q & A

Question: I would like to change the size of the font in my iCloud email. How do I go about doing that?

While you can’t change the font on your iPhone and iPad, you CAN change the size of the font.

1. Tap Settings
2. Tap General
3. Scroll down and tap Accessibility
4. Tap Large Text
5. Choose a size
6. When done, tap Accessibility in the top left, tap General in the top left, Tap Settings in the top left to return to the main Settings screen

This larger font choice will apply in Mail, Contacts, Calendars, Messages and Notes

 

 

Ram vs. Hard Drive Storage: What’s The Difference?

Computer memory is RAM. It’s like your physical desk. How much RAM you have determines how many apps you can have open at one time and work with efficiently.

If your computer is slow, or freezing, or you get the spinning ball, you need more working space–you need to install more RAM.

Hard drive storage space is like your closet. You can store a whole lot more in your closet than would ever fit on your desk to work with at any given time.

Uninstalling Apps, deleting photos and documents creates more storage space. Buying and installing RAM will create more efficient working space.

To find out how much RAM and hard drive storage your Mac has:

Under the Apple menu, choose About This Mac

The RAM amount, measured in GB, is listed in this first window.

To see how much hard drive storage you have, click More Info

If you are running Lion or Mountain Lion, click on the Storage tab across the top and a graphic will appear, showing you how much you are using and how much is left.

If you are running an earlier version of the OS, in the left column of the More Info window, scroll down and click on Serial ATA and click on the hard drive listed for the information.

In my opinion, you need a minimum of 4GB if you are running Lion or Mountain Lion. Anything less than that, and things may run slow, or freeze.

Contact Apple or a third party dealer (MacMall, MacMemory) to find out how much more you can add to your particular Mac.

iPad and iPhone Tip of the Week

Free Apps

The cool, crisp weather of autumn is an invitation to get outdoors and spend some time in nature. This month’s free apps can enhance your experience.

LEAFSNAP

Have you ever found a leaf and wondered what kind it was? This virtual field guide lets you take a picture of the leaf, then matches it to the correct leaf in the apps database.

iBIRD LITE GUIDE TO BIRDS

This intro app is a pared down version of iBird, one of the most popular bird identifying apps. iBird Lite includes 31 species of birds, including search capabilities and bird songs.

RELAXING SOUNDS OF NATURE LITE

If you can’t get outdoors, you can bring the sounds of nature indoors with this free app. With 22 different nature sounds, you can create your own combination of sounds to relax, reduce stress and feel better.
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Reminders in Mountain Lion

Mountain Lion is packed with so many new features, like Smart Browsing in Safari, VIPs in Mail and Reminders.

Reminders, like Notes, sync between your iPhone, iPad and Mac. Unlike Notes, you can set an alert by date, time, even location in the Reminders App.

I’ve just added a whole new course to The Virtual Classroom so members can learn all about these great new features.

Click here to watch a free video from the Virtual Classroom that will show you how to use the new Reminders feature.

iPad and iPhone Tip of the Week

Quick Scroll To The Top

When you reach the bottom of an article, an email, or your Facebook posts, instead of scrolling all the way back to the top, just tap in the very top black horizontal menu space where the time and battery are displayed and you’ll zip right up to the top of the screen.

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Turn Off Facebook Notifications

Do you get an email every time something is posted or commented on in FaceBook? This can make for a very full and overwhelming Inbox.

Here’s how to turn them off:

1. In FaceBook, click on the down triangle in the top right next to HOME

2. Choose Account Settings

3. In the left column, choose Notifications

4. Anywhere you see an icon of an envelope, it means you are asking to receive an email notification

5. Click Edit

6. Click on the envelope to remove all checkmarks

7. Do this with each category

8. Now breathe….

iPad and iPhone Tip of the Week

Editing Text

Instead of deleting and retyping, you can edit text, just like you do on your Mac.

1. Tap and hold your finger near the text you want to edit. An onscreen magnifying glass appears, showing you where the cursor is positioned

2. Drag the cursor to the desired point

3. Now you can type, delete, and edit your text

Selecting Text to Copy and Paste

1. Use the same technique for positioning the cursor, and this time, tap and release, revealing choices to Select, Select All, etc

2. To select only some text, drag the corner grab points to surround the text you want to work with

3. Tap the now selected text to choose to cut or copy

4. To put the text someplace else, tap where you want to put it and choose Paste

Shortcuts:

To select a single word, double-tap it

To select a paragraph, swipe across the paragraph with two fingers

or

quadruple-tap the paragraph

or

pinch/pull on the corner handles with two fingers to change the range of text

Undo the Last Thing Your Did

To undo the last thing you typed or edited, shake the iPad and then click Undo

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Make an Email Really Stand Out

The Flag feature of Apple Mail is great for marking important emails. And you can quickly find any flagged emails quickly with the built-in Search tool.But sometimes an email is REALLY important and you want it to really stand out in the long list of messages in your Inbox. So why not make it a color?

1. Click once on the email

2. From the Format menu, choose Show Colors

3. Choose a color. You can change how you see the different color choices by clicking on the icons at the top of the window. The icon on the far right will show a simple crayon box for simplicity.

4. Close the color window and the email will now be highlighted in that color.

iPad and iPhone Tip of the Week

Inserting a Picture in Mail

The new iOS6 is filled with great new features, including the ability to now add a photo into an email directly in Mail.

1. Create a new mail message

2. When you’re ready to insert a photo tap and hold in the message area

3. Choose Insert Photo or Video

4. Choose where the picture is (Camera Roll, Photo Library, an album, etc.)

5. Choose the photo

6. Tap USE

To send several photos at once, either repeat the above steps for each photo or:

1. Open the Photos app

2. Tap Camera Roll or Photo Library, depending on where the photos are

3. Tap Edit

4. Select the photos you want to email

5. Tap Share

6. Tap Mail

If Mail is not an option, you have too many photos selected. So cancel and unselect several photos then try again.

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Setting Margins in Microsoft Word

Many of my clients have been using Microsoft Word for years, yet they admit they don’t know how to properly set margins.

It’s NOT by sliding the triangles on the ruler!

Here’s a free video lesson that will show you how easy it is to properly change your margins.

This tip is just one of the many things you can learn in the newest course in Mac to School’s Virtual Classroom, Tips for Microsoft Word. To gain access to the entire course and all of the other great video lessons, join the classroom!

iPad and iPhone Tip of the Week

Maps vs. Google Maps in iOS6

It’s true. The new Maps app in iOS6 DOES include turn by turn directions but it does NOT include mass transit or walking directions. BUT you can still use Google maps!

1. Open Safari

2. Go to maps.google.com

3. Tap the Share button and choose to save it as an icon to your home page

 

Reading Articles in Safari Just Got Easier

Have you found an interesting article to read, but you find all of the ads on the screen so distracting?

Safari has a built in READER feature that will open most articles in a new window with just the article. No distractions.

1. Find an article in a newspaper

2. Click on the word READER that appears at the far right side of the page’s address (this may not be available for all articles)

3. The article will open in a new window with just the text

4. Click READER again to get back to the full page in Safari

iPad and iPhone Tip of the Week

Saving an Image You Find Online

If you’re surfing online and find a picture that you want to save or share with someone, it’s easy:

1. Find the image

2. Tap and hold on the image

3. Choose Save image (this may not work with a photo someone posts on Facebook)

4. The image will appear in your Camera Roll, where you can then email it or post it to Facebook.

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Email Print Too Small To Read

Several clients have asked why their emails print in such a tiny font that they can’t read them.

In the print window, there are several choices.

If you don’t see them, first click the triangle next to the name of your printer.

Or, in Lion, click Show Details.

To have emails print so that you can read them, be sure that

Keep the same apparent font size is the selected option.

iPad and iPhone Tip of the Week

Get Ready for the Summer Olympics

If you want to keep up with the latest news, games and scores during the upcoming Olympic Games in London, check out these Apps.

London 2012 Official Join In App: Developed and maintained by the official London Organizing Committee, the app includes current information on the Olympic Torch Relay plus news on all the cultural, city, and community celebrations happening now.

Once the games begin, the app will provide up-to-date coverage on each Olympic sport and each competition venue. In addition, for London visitors, the app provides full access to searchable maps, details of facilities, augmented reality views, and information about how to get the best out of your historic visit.

Universal Sports Network: This App will provide exclusive television coverage of this year’s games in the U.S. Plus, for the first time, free live coverage will be available for each sport no matter the time of day. Although separate iPhone/iPod touch and iPad apps for that purpose have yet to be released, this app is a suitable alternative for now.

Using the Universal Sports Network app, users can view exclusive pre-Olympic programming. In total, the free app provides more than 1,200 hours of original video content.

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Cleaning Your Keyboard and Mouse

Keyboard:

If your keyboard is wired, first disconnect it from your computer. If it is wireless, turn off the power on the keyboard and remove the batteries.

Use a lint-free cloth lightly moistened with water or iKleen. Don’t get moisture in any openings and don’t use aerosol sprays, solvents, or abrasives.

Older Mighty Mouse:

If your mouse is wired, first disconnect it from your computer. If your mouse is wireless, slide the power switch to off and remove the batteries. Clean the outside of your mouse or trackpad with a lint-free cloth lightly moistened with water or iKleen. Don’t get moisture into any openings and don’t use aerosol sprays, solvents, or abrasives.

If the scroll ball on your Mighty Mouse has become discolored or dirty, use a clean, lint-free cloth lightly moistened with water or iKleen to clean it.

Wipe the ball and the surrounding area, making sure to rotate the ball itself to ensure complete coverage.

If the scrolling feels rough or if the scroll ball isn’t scrolling up, down, or side-to-side, hold the Mighty Mouse upside down and roll the ball vigorously while cleaning it to help dislodge any particles that may have collected on the internal hardware.

iPad and iPhone Tip of the Week

Hidden Volume Adjuster

Even faster than pushing the up and down button on the side of your device, you can adjust the volume right on the screen.

1. Double tap the Home button to reveal the bar that shows all of your recently opened Apps

2. Slide that bar all the way to the right until you can’t go any further and you’ll see the volume slider

3. On your iPad, you can also adjust the brightness here

4. Double tap the Home button when you’re done

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Customizing Notes

If you have an iPad or iPhone, you may already be using the Notes app and syncing them with your Mac.

But many folks don’t want to SEE their Notes in the Inbox with all of the email.

Of course, you can change this setting:

1. Under the Mail menu, choose Preferences

2. Click on Accounts

3. Click on your iCloud account, the one that is syncing your Notes between your Mac and your devices

4. Click on the Mailbox Behaviors tab

5. Remove the checkmark next to Show Notes in Inbox

6. Close and Save your changes

Now, to see your Notes, hover on the Reminders in the left column and choose Show and your Notes will be listed. Click the arrow to reveal them.

iPad and iPhone Tip of the Week

Customizing Notes

Did you know you can choose a font for your Notes?

1. Tap Settings

2. Scroll down to see Notes in the left column

3. Choose your font

4. This is also where you choose to sync your notes with your iCloud account or only save them on the device

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How to Install Adobe Flash Player

If you are no longer able to watch certain videos online you may need to download the newest version of Adobe Flash Player.

– First, go here and click to Download
– You’ll see a blue progress bar in the top right on the Safari window
– It will download it into the Downloads folder
– When it’s done downloading, QUIT Safari from the Safari menu (don’t just close it)
– Open the Downloads folder which you can find under the GO menu when you’re on the Desktop
– Double click the file called Adobe something.dmg
– It will create another file called Install Flash Player
– Double click THAT
– Follow the directions
– When it’s all done and working, you can take the installer AND the .dmg icon to the trash

The other kind of video that people get in emails requires Windows Media Player, which doesn’t work with Lion.

To install an alternative to this, go to www.mac2school.com/tips and scroll down for the tip about the VLC Player

iPad and iPhone Tip of the Week

Setting Picture Frame Preferences

When your iPad is asleep and locked you can still view Photos. This is called Picture Frame mode. It’s different than the Slide Show mode when you are in your Photos.

To set your preferences for Picture Frame:

Tap Settings
Tap Picture Frame
Choose your Transition
Choose how long it shows each photo, whether to Zoom in on faces, and if you want them Shuffled, in a random order
Choose which photos and albums to show

 

Have Your Mac Read To You!

Did you know that you can have your computer read to you? The Speech commands are built into several Apple products and are really easy to use. Thanks, Sheila Cohn for sharing this great tip!

Try this:

Highlight this paragraph
Click on the Edit menu
Choose Speech and
Follow the triangle to the right to choose Start Speaking

To turn it off:

From the Edit menu choose Stop speaking

This works in Safari, too:

Find an article
Click on READER in the top right of the address bar so that the text is in its own window (A cool tip in itself!)
Click on the Edit menu
Choose Speech and
Follow the triangle to the right to choose Start Speaking
If you hadn’t first highlighted a particular section it will begin reading from the beginning

You can also change the voice and tone of the speaker:

Under the Apple menu choose System Preferences
Click on the Speech icon
Click on the Text to Speech tab
Next to System Voice, choose a name and click Play

Additional Speech and Voice Over features can be found under the Universal Access icon in System Preferences.

iPad and iPhone Tip of the Month

Quick Scroll to the Top

When you reach the bottom of an article, or an email or the news feed in FaceBook, instead of scrolling all the way back to the top:

Just double tap in the very top black horizontal menu space where the time and battery are displayed and you’ll zip right up to the top of the screen.

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Watching .WMV Files in Mail with Lion

1. Click here to download the VLC player.

2. Click on the top VLC choice for 32/64 bit.

3. It will download and appear wherever you have designated downloaded files to go. If it’s not on the Desktop, it’s probably in the Downloads folder.

4. To find the Downloads folder, from the Finder screen, click on the GO menu at the top.

5. Click on Downloads and find the file titled “VLC-1.1.12.dmg”.

6. Double click on the file and it will open.

7. Drag the icon of the orange cone on top of the Applications folder in that window and it will copy it.

8. When it’s done, close the window.

9. Trash the two VLC files that are still in the Downloads folder.

10. Now open an email that has a .wmv that you previously couldn’t open and it will work!

iPad and iPhone Tip of the Month

Deleting Emails

While there is still no way to Select All and Delete, there are two different ways to delete emails.

Option 1:

1. In the Inbox, tap Edit
2. Tap the circle next to each email you want to delete
3. Tap Delete

Option 2:

1. Slide across the right side of the email when it’s listed in the Inbox
2. Delete will appear as a choice

Try both options and see which one works better for you.

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Quick Look

Often, you’ll have documents in a folder or on your Desktop and you have no idea what they are. Instead of wasting the time to open each item, use the Mac’s Quick Look feature to get a Quick Look.

Click here for a short video to show you how it works.

FOR MORE GREAT VIDEO TIPS, check out the videos in The Virtual Classroom.

iPad and iPhone Tip of the Month

Add a Web Page to Your Home Screen

If you have a few favorite websites that you always go to on Safari, why not make them be icons on your home page for faster, easier access?

1. Open Safari
2. Go to the desired website
3. Click the “+” to Add a Bookmark but instead of choosing Add a Bookmark
4. Tap Add to Home Screen
5. Now that site is just a tap away.

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Safari: Zooming In and Out

Sometimes things online are just too small. Safari has an easy way to ZOOM in to see more detail.

There are several ways to zoom:

~ From the View menu, choose ZOOM IN

~ You can also hold down the Command key and type a “+”

~ You can even add an icon to the Toolbar for zooming

Under the View menu, choose Customize Toolbar.

Drag the big A little A tool into the toolbar.

Now zooming is click a click away.

Try it with this artist’s work that is more than just painting with tiny bits of paper. Look at the textures, the shadows, the kinds of papers the artist used. They are stunning.

FOR MORE GREAT SAFARI TIPS, check out the videos in The Virtual Classroom.

iPad and iPhone Tip of the Month

Portrait? Landscape? Lock It In Place

(This week’s tip works on the iPad 2 and the new iPad.)

You know that you can turn the screen sideways and the contents of the window automatically switches. Some folks like this feature, others find it annoying.

You can lock the screen so that it stays in one orientation.

1. Tap Settings

2. Tap General

3. Scroll down to below Restrictions to “Use Side Switch to:

4. and choose Lock Rotation

5. Get out of Settings by tapping the Home button

6. Tilt the screen so it’s the orientation you want

7. Slide the switch on the right side to the locked position so that you see orange

The iPad will still automatically adjust to tall if the app doesn’t work in the wide mode.

 

iPhoto: Cropping Pictures for Printing

If you plan to print or order prints of your favorite photos, remember to first crop them to the desired size. Otherwise, the photo lab will crop them for you and you may be disappointed with the results.

To crop a picture in iPhoto:

1. In iPhoto, click once on the photo and click Edit from the toolbar at the bottom

2. Click on the crop tool

3. From the pull-down list of numbers, choose the size of the print you will be ordering. A rectangular box will appear on the photo.

4. Drag the corners to resize the rectangle to include what you want in the photo. You’ll notice that if you make it narrower it will also make it shorter–it is constraining the photo to the proportions of the size you selected.

5. You can reposition the rectangle by dragging in the middle of the rectangle.

6. You can also change it from a landscape to a portrait by choosing again from the size list–the last choices in the menu give you the option to make it tall (portrait) or wide (landscape).

7. When you have the desired area selected, click Done.

Now you have a proper photo of the desired size.

If you are ordering several different sizes of the same photo, duplicate the photo first (photos menu, choose duplicate) and crop each one to the desired size.

FOR MORE GREAT iPHOTO TIPS, check out the videos in The Virtual Classroom at http://www.mac2school.com/virtual-classroom-library/

iPad and iPhone Tip of the Month

Turning To-Do’s Into Ta Dones

The free App, I DONE THIS gets five stars when it comes to writing stuff down and staying motivated, whatever you do. You just tap the icon of the cute dog face and write about everything you got done that day.

It’s not another TO DO list that might leave you feeling overwhelmed or unaccomplished. I DONE THIS is all about recognizing what you HAVE done. You can scroll through all of the entries and feel a sense of big accomplishment.

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Quicken vs Quicken Essentials

You’ve probably heard that Intuit finally released a version of Quicken that will work with Lion. Even if you’ve already converted to Quicken Essentials, you can still switch back to the new Quicken.

Why would you want to?

~ Quicken 2007 has much more complete reporting capabilities.

~ Quicken 2007 includes automatic backups of your important data.

~ Quicken 2007 allows you to pay your bills right from within the program.

~ Quicken 2007 tracks investments and securities.

And more.

Here’s the link to download the newest Lion compatible version.

http://quicken.intuit.com/personal-finance-software/quicken-2007-osx-lion.jsp

Be sure to read the conversion information too. Or call me and I’ll help you.

iPad and iPhone Tip of the Month

Emailing More Than One Photo At a Time

To send more than one picture in an email:

1. Tap Photos

2. Don’t select a picture! Instead, tap the Share icon, the rectangle with the arrow in the top right corner

3. Now select your photos

4. Tap Share

5. Choose Email

You can also use this technique to Delete several photos at a time.

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Scroll Bar Secrets

The scroll bar, on the right side of every window, allows you to move up and down the window to see the contents.
Dragging the scroll bar moves you fast, sometimes too fast. But Dragging the scroll button is the quickest way to go all the way to the top or bottom of a window.

Clicking the up and down arrows at the bottom of the scroll bar will move you a line at a time. This is great if you are reading a document line by line or looking at individual photos.

In the System Preferences, under Appearance, you can set the Scroll Bar to either jump to the next page or to the spot that’s clicked.

This is handy when you are scanning a document or wanting to quickly navigate through a section of your photos.

BONUS: In Safari, pressing the Space Bar scrolls the window a screen at a time.

iPad and iPhone App of the Month

Paper Karma: Get a handle on Junk Mail

Paper Karma is a free app that helps eliminate all of the junk mail and catalogs that fill up your mailbox. Just snap a photo of the label on any piece of junkmail and send it to the folks at Paper Karma and your name will be removed from that mailing list.

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Updates! Updates! Updates!

It is so important to keep current with all of your computer software updates. Updates fix bugs, increase security and make things work better.

Updates for all Apple software will come through Software update, under the Apple menu.

In addition, if you have purchased software from the APP Store, you will receive notification there as well.

If you see a red number on the App store icon in the Dock, that means that there is an update waiting for you to install.

Click to open the App Store, then click on Updates in the top right of the menu bar.

For Microsoft Office, Quicken, QuickBooks, Firefox and all non-Apple products, you need to check within each of these Apps for an update. Look under the Help menu for a link to Check for Updates.

iPad and iPhone Tip of the Month

Printing

Yes, of course you can print from your iPad and iPhone. You just need a wireless printer that is Airprint compatible.

For a complete list of printers that are Airprint compatible, click here.

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Tips and Secrets for Addressing Emails

Check out this free video that shows you secrets for addressing emails, clearing out incorrect or old addresses and so much more!

If you like this video, you’ll love the upcoming online class TAME YOUR EMAIL.
Click here for details.

iPad and iPhone Tip of the Month

Four Ways to Conserve Your Battery

Under Settings:

1. Turn off Bluetooth if you are not connected to a wireless keyboard

2. Under General, choose Restrictions, turn off Ping, Apple’s social networking music service

3. Under the iPod setting, turn off the EQ

4. Under Location Services, wisely choose which Apps REALLY need to know where you are