Category: Mac Treat

In iOS 5, did you know that if you touch the icon of the app shown in Notification Center you can then swipe to go directly to that alert? It’s an easy way to view the notifications you want from the lock screen without multiple steps. Thanks to everyone who participated in our survey last…

Thanks to Kibbles & Bytes reader Perry, who let me know that there’s another way to grab your iTunes account password: He writes: “Go to Applications/Utilities and open Keychain; then type in iTunes in the search field and you will see if there is an iTunes account there (or not, if you don’t have one).…

iTunes has been slowly taking over the world for the better part of a decade now, so chances are, you’re using that to play, buy or rent your digital content. For those who use iTunes less frequently, though, either because you don’t often use iTunes for your music or movies or because you have a…

I went to send an email the other day in Mail, and as is the case every so often, an outdated email address came up when I began to type the recipient’s name. I thought I recalled that we had written about this before, so I wracked my brain about how to permanently eliminate these…

You may have noticed that certain parts of a message in Mail can be highlighted when you hover over them, such as dates, times and addresses. For a while now, users have been able to select this information and add it to either Address Book or iCal without leaving the Mail application. In Lion, there…

Address Book is an extremely simple app, and I often wonder if Apple will keep updating it with new features (namely, cross-reference for entries and better logic for entries that share similar data), especially now that so many devices rely heavily on it and its contents. In Address Book, you can customize the fields in…

This week’s Mac Treat is a two-parter. A while back, I wrote about how to type accent characters on your iOS device. Well, for those of you using Lion, the same steps you take on your iPhone (or the like) are now applicable. To produce an accent on your Mac using 10.7, press and (briefly)…

This Mac Treat is similar to one of our previous treats, but with some added nuggets. One of my favorite features in Spotlight is the ability to pose a calculation (e.g. 5,608 * 72) and it will retrieve the Calculator for you as a top hit. (Just enter the numbers you want to add, subtract,…

I happen to love the Resume feature in Mac OS 10.7, but many people have shared their feedback that it would be great to not have everything resume in place upon startup. It makes sense to want a choice, because many times, you may be finished with a window when you go to shut down…

Moving your photos off-site, so to speak, is something that I am a big fan of, and I’ve wanted to write about it for a while now. This tip is especially helpful for those who work with large photo files—they can be a pain for smaller capacity hard drives (like a MacBook Air, etc.). Open…