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Quickly Activate Your Screen Saver
Apple offers this tip for fast activation of your screen saver. By designating a Hot Corner, you can have your screen saver start whenever you move the mouse into that corner. Here’s how: Choose System Preferences from the Apple menu. Click Desktop & Screen Saver...

Customize Your Mac with a Screen Saver
Apple shares these tips about using screen savers. Screen savers offer a great way to customize — and enjoy — your Mac. You have a variety of screen savers to choose from: Choose System Preferences from the Apple menu. Click Desktop & Screen Saver; then click the...

Easy Dictionary Definitions in Safari
You’re using Safari to research a paper on climate change and you find the phrase “anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations.” What exactly does “anthropogenic” mean? Here’s a fast way to get the definition of a word you’re not familiar with. Hover your mouse over...

Change the Position of the Dock
Apple shares these tips with us: Mac OS X lets you customize the Dock in a number of ways. If you choose Dock from the Apple menu and select Dock Preferences, a dialog will open giving you access to all of the Dock customization options. Use them to: change the size...

Do Not Disturb is Awesome New iOS Feature
Apple's new iOS 6 offers a new feature called Do Not Disturb, which will not only completely silence your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch, but it will prevent the screen from turning on when an alert is received. To enable or disable Do Not Disturb (DND), launch Settings,...

OS X Mountain Lion: How to Use Parental Controls
Apple offers us these tips for ensuring our kids have a safe and happy experience on the computer. With simple settings in Parental Controls preferences, you can manage, monitor, and control the time your kids spend on the Mac, the websites they visit, and the people...
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