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Keep Your Kids’ Minds Sharp This Summer

Keep Your Kids’ Minds Sharp This Summer

MacWorld offers these great ideas for avoiding summer brain drain. 1. Learn at your own pace If you check out only one resource for your elementary-, middle- or high-school-aged kid this summer, make sure it’s online learning sensation Khan Academy, also available as...

New Retina Macbook Pro is Super-Thin

New Retina Macbook Pro is Super-Thin

Apple just announced a sleek, super-thin new MacBook Pro. The new unit, which looks like a MacBook Air in some respects, is only 0.71 inches thick. One of the most exciting features: the new model features a Retina display. Apple says they "wanted this MacBook Pro to...

Do You Know About Reading Lists in Safari?

Do You Know About Reading Lists in Safari?

Do you know about Safari's reading list option? It allows you to save favorite web pages for easy retrieval—it's even easier than bookmarks. Saving a page to your Safari reading list is easy.  Once you're on a page you want to save, so up to the Bookmarks menu and...

Keep Kids Busy This Summer with These iPad Apps

Keep Kids Busy This Summer with These iPad Apps

We know you don't want your kids doing the electronics thing all day every day this summer.  But after they've had a good long turn outside and it's time to come inside and cool down a bit, you might want to let them play with any of these great apps: Creatures of...

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Did You Know About the Secret of Control-H?

A Macworld editor recently reported that he'd inadvertently stumbled on an undocumented keyboard shortcut for deleting messages in Mail: Control-H. Hitting that key combination does the same thing as the Delete key, sending messages to the Trash folder. How handy is...