Category: How-To
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Tips for Setting Up a Comfortable and Effective Home Work Space
Vast numbers of people who previously reported for work at an office every day are now working from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic. That’s sensible, and if you’re included in that group, there was probably even a little thrill of “I get to work from home!” at first. But as those who have telecommuted…
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Keeping Up with Ever-changing Browser & Internet Security Standards
Editor’s Note: This article first appeared in our newsletters, specifically Kibbles & Bytes #941 & Tech Tails #932 . Encryption is used to keep your private information safe on the Internet, whether it’s credit card numbers and contact info, your search queries, or iMessages to loved ones, by making them unreadable by anyone other than…
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High Dynamic Range
High Dynamic Range (or “HDR”) brings a little professional technique to your iOS 7 photos by taking three exposures with one snap: normal, over, and under. The software then combines these three captures into one optimized photo. In my experience, HDR-optimized photos in iOS 7 take up an average of .8 megabytes more than their…
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Resetting Your Admin Password
This article was meant to appear in the September 17th edition of Tech Tails. We’re posting here for your reading pleasure. Enjoy! If you have ever forgotten your user password on your Mac, there are a few quick ways you can reset it. Depending on which version of the OS you have, the process may…
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How To Migrate Your iPhoto Library To An External
Recently, I purchased a massive 2TB external hard drive so that I could create a media server with my Mac mini and free up space on that machine and my MacBook Pro. Some of you may not have even considered this an option but it is a great way to save space on your computer’s…
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From The Archive: How to Disable Dashboard
Dashboard is a feature built in to Mac OS X 10.4 and up that allows you to customize a variety of widgets within a readily accessible screen overlay. This may seem like a handy tool to have on your desktop, but the truth is, these widgets can be quite the little ram hogs, slowing down…
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You Don't Say….
People have been talking (occasionally with expletives) to their computers since way before they could listen. And while speech-to-text has been technically feasible for decades, it has not reached widespread adoption. Apple’s recent investments in data centers has allowed them to deploy services such as iCloud and Siri. Siri’s lesser-known counterpart is simple speech-to-text dictation.…
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Gmail on iOS
Did you know that there’s more than one way to access your Google account email, contacts, and calendars from your iOS device? I’m here to help you choose the best way for you to get access to your Google data from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. If you navigate to the Settings app on…
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By Popular Demand: How To Type the Apple Symbol
We recently discovered that a post back in the day (in 2007, to be exact) was highly popular among our blog readers. Turns out, many of you wanted to know how to type the Apple logo! To do this, hold down Option-Shift-K at the same time. Note that this only works on Macs, and it…
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Boosting Your Wireless Network Connection
With wireless networking technology advancing faster than we can read about it, it’s always good to know that your Mac is accessing and transmitting data with your wireless network as best as it possibly can. To obtain this requires a little maintenance work on your part. Firstly, open up System Preferences, and navigate to “Network.”…