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...
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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...
OS X Mountain Lion: AirPlay Mirroring
OS X Mountain Lion has hundreds of new features. From time to time, Apple MacWorks will offer information about different aspects of the new OS. Today we'll feature AirPlay Mirroring. If you need help upgrading your Mac to Mountain Lion, give us a call. Wireless...
How To Password Protect Your Files
Thanks to Apple and Mountain Lion, password protecting your folders is easier then ever. This is ideal for things that you want kept unseen or safe in case your computer is stolen. The process starts by first opening Disk Utility under Utilities in the application...
OS X Mountain Lion: Calendar
OS X Mountain Lion has hundreds of new features. From time to time, Apple MacWorks will feature different aspects of the new OS. Today, we'll look at some of the great Calendar features of OS X Mountain Lion. If you need help upgrading to Mountain Lion, stop in to...
View Multi-page Previews of Word Files on Finder Icons
Mountain Lion has added the ability to view multi-page previews of Word documents when you hover your cursor over the icon, as has been possible with PDFs since Lion. To see a preview, hover your cursor over a Word document. You'll see two arrow icons on the document...
OS X Mountain Lion: Auto Save Features
OS X Mountain Lion has hundreds of new features. From time to time, Apple MacWorks will feature different aspects of the new OS. Today, we'll look at some of the great Auto Save features of OS X Mountain Lion. If you need help upgrading to Mountain Lion, stop in to...
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I wish I would have stayed with High Sierra or Catalina. Big Sur doesn't work with Time Machine, Messages, Spotlight…
My updated my Mac with Big Sur and it is stuck and says it has less than a minute to…