Category: 714: Anchors in iWeb, Keyboard Shortcuts Follow-Up, Spam Tips

I am used to helping clients reduce spam by training Mail’s spam filter and enabling the pop-up blocker in Safari and Firefox, but I saw something new in a recent consult. Our customer emailed while presented with a warning about a Windows security problem, pushing a shady Windows registry repair tool. She went ahead and…

Mac OS X includes Mail, a robust and highly customizable email program with support for POP, IMAP, and Exchange. It’s always had a very good junk mail filter that’s easy and intuitive to set up. When you fire up Mail and configure it for the first time, you’ll notice some of your messages appear in…

Thanks to the many readers who pointed out my failing to include a very important few keyboard shortcuts for Safari users who enjoy tabbed browsing. To switch between open tabs, press Option-right arrow; to move backwards between open tabs, press Shift-Option-right arrow. Apple has an “extensive compendium of shortcuts”:http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1343?locale=en_US on its “support”:http://www.apple.com/support site. If ever…

I am a huge fan of iWeb. Despite being versed in HTML, I find that iWeb is an easy, aesthetically pleasing way to create and maintain an active site without being a techno-whiz. However, despite improved features and functionality with each new release, iWeb still has its imperfections and I ran into one of them…

Happy Tuesday, It’s amazing how much greener it is around here after only a week away. Don, Ed, Kali, and I went down to the Washington, DC area for the annual meeting of the Apple Specialist Marketing Corporation (ASMC). With temperatures in the upper seventies and bright sunshine all week, it was a welcome departure…