Seeing What Fonts Really 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 Fonts tool.

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 the the diagonal lines in the bottom right corner of the window.

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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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Creating Your Own Signature in Email

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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How To Take A Picture of What’s on the Screen

Sometimes you need to take a snapshot of what’s on your screen. Maybe to report an odd problem. Maybe to brag about a high score on Scrabble.

To take a picture of the screen, hold down the On/Off button at the same time that you press the Home button. You’ll hear a shutter sound.

To find the picture, click on Photos and look in the camera roll. Now you can email the picture or save it for future use.

 

 

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Create a Holiday Playlist in iTunes

For all of you Christmas music lovers, the easiest way to keep that holiday music playing is to create a Playlist.

Instead of manually looking for the songs you want, use the powerful SEARCH tool.

1. In the top right corner, click in the Search box and type Christmas

2. All songs/albums/artists with that word will appear

3. From the File menu choose New Playlist From Selection

4. The new playlist will appear at the bottom of the left column as Untitled Playlist

5. Without clicking anywhere, type a name for this Holiday Playlist

You can add additional songs to this playlist by dragging them from the main music window to on top of the playlist.

Watch the free video that shows you how to do this!

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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.

Open the email.

In Lion’s Mail, first click Show Details.

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

It will look like nothing has happened but your pictures are now in your iPhoto Library.

Now you can delete the email.

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Changing the Font for Notes

While the font Marker Felt might be fun, it may not be your font of choice for your Notes. Now, with iOS 5 you can change the font for your Notes.

1. Click on Settings
2. Scroll pretty far down the list and click on Notes
3. Choose one of the three font’s listed