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How to Backup Your Mac Using Time Machine

How to Backup Your Mac Using Time Machine

Setting up Time Machine is as easy as connecting an external drive to your Mac via Thunderbolt, FireWire or USB. You can also use a secondary internal drive if your desktop Mac has one (that is, a drive that you don't start up from). If you haven't specified a Time...

How to Add Safari Bookmarks to Your Dock

How to Add Safari Bookmarks to Your Dock

You may not know this, but you can fill the dock with more than just applications and folders. The dock can also hold web pages stored as bookmarks. This allows you to have quick access to your favorite sites. To do this, using Safari,  find the web page you would...

How to Use Mac’s Address Book

How to Use Mac’s Address Book

Address Book makes it easy to manage your current address book, personal organizer, or business card collection. Learn how to create contacts and add Smart Groups to your Address Book. Address Book keeps all your contacts right at your fingertips Address Book allows...

iPad App Offers Great iPad Tutorials

iPad App Offers Great iPad Tutorials

If you're new to iPad, you might want to check out SCOtutor for iPad, which is a comprehensive video guide to using the iPad. Starting from first principles, this video tutorial leads you through all aspects of using an iPad in simple steps. Covering all the new...

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...

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...

Did You Know About the Secret of Control-H?

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...

How To: Use GarageBand’s “Learn to Play”

How To: Use GarageBand’s “Learn to Play”

Apple has made it really easy to learn how to play an instrument at home. The application GarageBand comes standard with the Mac OS, and with it, you can learn the fundamentals of how to play basic, rock or blues guitar, or piano. To get started, launch GarageBand,...

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