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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...

ABC “Borrows” Famous Mac Commercial

ABC “Borrows” Famous Mac Commercial

Have you seen ABC's knock-off of the famous Macintosh TV commercial? The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) has copied Apple’s famous 1984 commercial to promote its upcoming new singing show called Duets. Alluding to George Orwell’s 1984 novel, ABC’s commercial ...

ABC “Borrows” Famous Mac Commercial

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,...