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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
iPad and iPhone Tip of the Week
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.
iPad and iPhone Tip of the Week
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
iPad and iPhone Tip of the Week
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!
iPad and iPhone Tip of the Week
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
iPad and iPhone Tip of the Week
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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